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Developer’s documentation tools

Posted by binglongx on July 10, 2024

HackMD: real-time collaborating in documentation using MarkDown: http://www.hackmd.io

Slidev: Quickly creating slides: http://www.sli.dev

Mermaid: create diagrams by writing simple text: https://mermaid.js.org/

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Unix project: configure and make

Posted by binglongx on May 25, 2024

For a project distributed as source code in Unix-like systems, upon getting the source, normally you would run:

./configure
make

The magic behind configure, make, make install – How it works in Unix explains what’s happening. Below is a simple drawing of the flow. Note that “project startup” was done when the project was first created by the project owner.

The corresponding Mermaid flow char diagram source code:

%% Mermaid drawing, view with https://mermaid.live/
flowchart LR

    classDef Executable fill:#411,stroke-width:2px;
    classDef File fill:#141,stroke-width:2px;

    subgraph project startup
    a[Makefile.am]:::File
    b([automake]):::Executable
    d[configure.ac]:::File
    e([autoconfig]):::Executable
    end

    subgraph source code repo
    c[Makefile.in]:::File 
    f([configure]):::Executable
    j[source code]:::File
    end

    g[Makefile]:::File
    h([make]):::Executable
    i[executable]:::Executable

    a[Makefile.am] --> b([automake]) --> c[Makefile.in]
    d[configure.ac] --> e([autoconfig]) --> f([configure])
    c[Makefile.in] --> f([configure]) --> g[Makefile]
     j[source code] --> h([make])
    g[Makefile] --> h([make]) --> i[executable]

See also: Build Project with CMake

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