Mastering Make: A Guide to Building Programs on DOS, OS/2, and Unix Systems - Softcover

Tondo, Clovis L.; Nathanson, Andrew; Yount, Eden

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9780131219069: Mastering Make: A Guide to Building Programs on DOS, OS/2, and Unix Systems

Synopsis

A practical introduction to MAKE, this comprehensive tutorial shows programmers how to exploit the full power of this valuable utility. Whether you are programming in a DOS, or OS/2, or UNIX system environment, this guide explains in logical, easy-to-follow steps how MAKE works and shows how to use it in a variety of applications.
Key features: combines elements of both a tutorial and a reference book, assuming little or no experience with the MAKE command; explains how to create GUI applications using MAKE on X Windows, Presentation Manager, and Windows; offers numerous examples of tested, flexible, and easy-to-use MAKEFILES that you can apply to your own software development projects; helps you avoid the unproductive process of learning MAKE by trial and error; and examines the specifics of popular versions of MAKE, including Microsoft's NMAKE, Borland's MAKE, and MAKE for UNIX Systems.

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From the Publisher

Expanded in scope and improved in design, this revision of a best-selling guide to MAKE combines an easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial approach to using the MAKE utility on DOS, OS/2, and UNIX systems with concise reference material for both universal concepts and specific uses of the tool. Provides a basic, yet comprehensive, explanation of the usefulness and subtleties of the MAKE utility in general, and demonstrates the concepts in action with numerous, tested examples for specific versions of MAKE running under several popular operating systems.

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