You can use Autotools to generate your Makefiles. Autotools gets a bad rep, but I've found it perfectly fine for simple projects. To get started you only need t

You can use Autotools to generate your Makefiles. Autotools gets a bad rep, but I've found it perfectly fine for simple projects. To get started you only need two files, configure.ac and Makefile.am, you can ignore all the autogenerated stuff.