Timur Izhbulatov — Independent Electronic Music

GNU Autotools tutorial

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 in Tech stuff | permalink

autotools

Have you ever installed any software from source? If you have I bet you've also noticed all that stuff like configure.in and Makefile.in. Want to know what's it for, how it works and how it can be used? I've written a brief tutorial.

You will need:

• autoconf 2.6
• automake 1.9

These are the versions I used to write the tutorial but it should probably work with any reasonably recent versions.

Further reading: GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool (The Goat Book)