Creating a makefile should be just as easy as compiling a project.
That's what this program allow you to do. By the end of this 10 minutes you could create a makefile just by typing makemake and then an executable by typing make.
Open a terminal in the makefile project path, and run
$ sudo chmod +x createCmd
$ sudo ./createCmd
Congratulations! now you can create a makefile in any directory for any c++ project by typing makemake in a terminal located on the project path.
You can use the command make clear to delete the .o files and the executable (.out) file.
Clone this project, or download it.
Open a terminal in the makefile project path, and run
$ make
Now you will find in the directory an executable named mkfile, you can move it to any directory and run it to create a makefile for the current path; or you can run it with a path argument like so
$ ./mkfile path/to/cpp/project/
This is not a comfortable way to create a make file, so bare with me in the last few steps.
In the makefile project you can find three bash scripts:
createCmd , deleteCmd and makemake .
Those files contain only few lines of code each so you can check their innocence out if you want before the next step.
Open a terminal in the makefile project path, and run
$ sudo chmod +x createCmd
$ sudo ./createCmd
This will create a new command (makemake) that will allow you to create a makefile.
Now you can create a makefile in any directory for any c++ project by typing makemake in a terminal located on the project path.
You can use the command make clear to delete the .o files and the executable (.out) file (after make command).
Open a terminal in the makefile project path, and run
$ sudo chmod +x deleteCmd
$ sudo ./deleteCmd
You probably have a relatively old compiler. to update it just run this lines:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gcc-7 g++-7
$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-7 60
To check it worked run
$ g++ -v
If you can see bottom line the gcc is running version 7 you are good to go.