Anjuta build tutorial

Copyright © 2004 Olivier Pinçon

Copyright © 2008 Sébastien Granjoux

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Building a project

2.1. Using GCC

2.1.1. Preprocessor
2.1.2. Compiler
2.1.3. Assembler
2.1.4. Linker

2.2. Using make

2.2.1. Variables
2.2.2. Rules

2.3. Using Autotools

2.3.1. Input files
2.3.2. Configure
2.3.3. make

2.4. Using Anjuta

2.4.1. Configure
2.4.2. Menu items
2.4.3. Options

3. Creating a project

3.1. Using Autotools

3.1.1. Write sources
3.1.2. Run Autoconf
3.1.3. Run Automake
3.1.4. Build project
3.1.5. Clean project
3.1.6. Generate project

3.2. Using Anjuta

3.2.1. Create a new project
3.2.2. Looking at configure.ac
3.2.3. Looking at Makefile.am

4. Adding a library

4.1. Using Autotools

4.1.1. With pkg-config
4.1.2. With an Autoconf macro
4.1.3. With hardcoded library path

4.2. Using Anjuta

4.2.1. With pkg-config
4.2.2. Without pkg-config

5. Resources

List of Figures
2-1. GCC compilation stage
2-2. Configure process
2-3. Configure dialog
2-4. Build preferences
3-1. Autotools process
3-2. Project selection page
3-3. Project basic information page
3-4. Project options page
3-5. Project summary page
3-6. Project creation messages
4-1. Project package properties dialog
4-2. Target properties dialog

List of Examples
2-1. A simple Makefile file
3-1. main.c:
3-2. minimal configure.ac:
3-3. minimal Makefile.am:
3-4. Anjuta minimal configure.ac:
3-5. Anjuta minimal Makefile.am:
4-1. main.c using libxml2:
4-2. main.c using libxml2:

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