I think that you’d be better off using the ExternalProject feature of cmake. I guess you have your project and have libantrl in a sub directory? project +- libantlr +- mysrc —- etc —- If that’s the case, you can do something like this in the top level CMakeLists.txt: cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8) project(test) include(ExternalProject) ExternalProject_Add(libantlr SOURCE_DIR … Read more
You typically need to use glibtool and glibtoolize, since libtool already exists on OS X as a binary tool for creating Mach-O dynamic libraries. So, that’s how MacPorts installs it, using a program name transform, though the port itself is still named ‘libtool’. Some autogen.sh scripts (or their equivalent) will honor the LIBTOOL / LIBTOOLIZE … Read more
Updated 16th of January 2019: Refined advice as tools evolve. I have used autotools before for a considerable amount of time. Currently I make intensive use of meson and cmake only when I need it. Some personal advice: for big teams, stick to CMake if you want to make use of the generators for XCode. … Read more
Alexandre Duret-Lutz‘s tutorial is my resource of choice. There are also: Autotools: a practitioner’s guide to Autoconf, Automake and Libtool Autotools Mythbuster To me, the autobook is not up to date anymore and more difficult to read. However it still contains interesting chapters like Writing Portable Bourne Shell. Also, consider learning about non-recursive automake which … Read more
See Alexandre Duret Lutz’s Autotools tutorial, a must read. It contains diagrams explaining how the different files of an autotools project interact with each other and by which tool they are used: configure, config.h, config.status, aclocal.m4 etc EDIT: John Calcote also explains the purpose of aclocal and aclocal.m4 in the first chapter of his book … Read more
Don’t indent the comment — when the line starts with a tab, it is a command that is executed by the shell (and the shell treats the comment as a comment). Proof of concept (ss.mk): all: echo “This is the first command” # This comment is echoed # This comment is not echoed echo “This … Read more
You should not keep any files under version control that are not hand-edited. That means any generated file should be ignored by the version control system. I basically put only the following under version control: configure.ac Makefile.am the documentation files such as AUTHORS, NEWS etc. Makefile.am in subdirectories To address the point of having a … Read more
Passing the following argument to configure script allowed me to build the 32bit library on 64bit Linux ./configure –build=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-m32 CXXFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32
I’m taking the chance of being downvoted but, I must admit, that unfortunately there is no real substitute for autotools. CMake, SCons, bjam are nice but, when it comes to serious work… it is quite clear that autotools are superior, not because CMake can’t do the same thing, but because it is just much harder … Read more
You are talking about two separate but intertwined things here: Autotools GNU coding standards Within Autotools, you have several projects: Autoconf Automake Libtool Let’s look at each one individually. Autoconf Autoconf easily scans an existing tree to find its dependencies and create a configure script that will run under almost any kind of shell. The … Read more