Lex Spoon

Today I ran into a great book chapter by Erik Kuefler and Lisa Carey about Google's build system philosophy . It's all very good, bu...

In a previous post, I showed that the standard build rules for C code are unreliable . Let me describe two ways to do better. In the intere...

The standard way of integrating C into a build system is to use automatic dependencies generated from the compiler . Gcc and Clang can emit ...

I have been strongly influenced by Peter Miller's article Recursive Make Considered Harmful . Peter showed that if you used the language...

As far as I can tell, the single compelling feature about ant as a build system is that it makes it easy to compile Java. I just encountered...