Hardware and software combined, Arduino does many things right. It lowers the entry level into embedded systems development with a nifty hardware abstraction layer. It aims for cross-platform ...

A Makefile is a file that contains information about a program’s flow, targets, and libraries. It is also known as a description file as it includes a group of targets and the sources on which they ...

Makefiles are a fundamental tool that every embedded software developer needs to understand. Even if you use an Eclipse-based IDE, behind the scenes, a makefile is generated to build your objects ...

GNU makefiles let your small business put out source code that can adapt its compilation to a specific client's machine, and preemptively detect problems or unmet software dependencies. Checking to ...

Automation has become the backbone of modern SystemVerilog/UVM verification environments. As designs scale from block-level modules to full system-on-chips (SoCs), engineers rely heavily on scripts to ...

In our last post, Creating a Makefile Build System using ChatGPT: Running Docker with Make, we built and ran a Docker container. Until now, we haven’t written any code ourselves, instead relying on ...

Why aren't you just overriding the built-in rules you care about? A better explanation of what you're trying to do would be helpful.

To wrap up my quick tour through the wonderland of make and makefiles, we’re going to look at a pair of possible makefiles for building ARM projects. Although I’m specifically targeting the STM32F407, ...

Now let's suppose that we have 3 different configuration options that we would like to be able to enable at build time: OPTION_A, OPTION_B, and OPTION_C. So, we want to be able to configure the ...