>>> However, anyone who is comfortable with creating makefiles has quite
 >>> a bit of choice. I've been trying to familiarise myself with DMAKE
 >>> for quite some time, and that seems to be a very powerful and
 >>> configurable make program It is available on a large number of
 >>> platforms, although I don't know anyone who uses it personally, but
 >>> could do with swapping a few tips...

I have been an immense fan of DMake for years, because I can get incredibly
complex library dependencies condensed into very concise makefiles. This
makes makefile maintenance _very_ simple when I switch to a new compiler.
The implicit dependencies that Dmake supports are incredible. Its macros
are also the most powerful I've seen, especially the {} expansions.

If I make a .exe dependent on a .obj, and if there's no recipe to build the
.obj, it uses my default recipe of either %.c or %.cpp depending on whether
there's a .c or .cpp file in the directory. So my typical makefile looks
like:

file.exe : file1.obj file2.obj file3.obj file4.obj
    $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) file $(<:t, ","), name ${at}

Pretty damn concise.

Jeff

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