SHsheffield·Jul 1, 2011Submission
Clump -- say goodbye to Makefiles
2 points · Open discussionchkoreff
Clump
C2009–2011
chkoreff / Clump
Clump
Automatically compile and link C programs
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16GitHub stars
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Automatically compile and link C programs
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 2009 | 2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2010 | 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2010 | 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2010 | 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2010 | 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2010 | 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2010 | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2010 | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2010 | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2010 | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2010 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2010 | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2011 | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2011 | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Apr 2011 | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2011 | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2011 | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2011 | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesClump: A replacement for "make" for C projects.
2 points · Open discussionBack in '02 I wrote a C program called "clump" that compiles and links C code, detecting dependencies automatically by scanning for "includes".
http://github.com/chkoreff/Clump/blob/master/src/README
People have been downloading it consistently ever since, and I know some of them like it a lot.
So with this program you just cd into your code directory, type "clump", and it builds your executable program in ../bin.
One current limitation: it expects all the .h and .c files to be in a single directory. I could enhance it to walk through a directory structure, but I haven't gotten around to it. Yeah I know, even after 8 years. :)
In Varnish guy's hatred for autoconfI've published the "clump" program here:
http://github.com/chkoreff/Clump
In Dear GNU Autohell...