Hardware and software combined, Arduino does many things right. It lowers the entry level into embedded systems development with a nifty hardware abstraction layer. It aims for cross-platform ...

I recently found out about CEDET for emacs. I love the speedbar, and I like the code completion. I've been trying to get EDE to do all my makefile magic for me, but I can't seem to figure it out. I ...

Makefiles are a fundamental tool that every embedded software developer needs to understand. Even if you use an Eclipse-based IDE, behind the scenes, a makefile is generated to build your objects ...

Last time on Embed with Elliot, I began my celebration of the make command’s 40th birthday next month. We discussed using the default rules and how to augment them with your own variables defined in a ...

In a compiled language, the makefile is arguably the most important part of any programming project. To compile your project, you first have to compile each source file into an object file, which in ...

GNU makefiles let your small business put out source code that can adapt its compilation to a specific client's machine, and preemptively detect problems or unmet software dependencies. Checking to ...

At my work, we've got a pretty gigantic development system of C source code, all of which is built with a multi-level set of makefiles. Individual targets are built by individual makefiles, which are ...