MakeWiz is a handy command-line tool designed to make working with Makefiles easier. With just one simple command, MakeWiz does the work of creating a neat Makefile that perfectly fits the files in your directory. It can generate Makefiles for C, C++ and Java. It is available for all major Linux distros.

🔐 MakeWiz is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache 2.0.

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• Shell auto-completion
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Let's say that you have a directory with such files

• Bike.cpp Bike.hpp
• Car.cpp Car.hpp
• Vehicle.hpp
• main.cpp and executable main

After running makewiz(for Java projects use makewiz java), a Makefile like this will be created

# Compiler and flags
CC = g++
FLAGS = -g -c -Wall
LFLAGS =

# Source files and object files
OBJS = Bike.o Car.o main.o
SOURCE = Bike.cpp Car.cpp main.cpp
HEADER = Bike.hpp Car.hpp Vehicle.hpp
OUT = main

# Libraries
LDLIBS =

# Default target
all: $(OUT)

# Linking rules
$(OUT): $(OBJS)
    $(CC) -g $(OBJS) -o $(OUT) $(LFLAGS) $(LDLIBS)

# Compilation rules
%.o: %.cpp $(HEADER)
    $(CC) $(FLAGS) -o $@ $<

# Clean rule
clean:
    rm -f $(OBJS) $(OUT)

All files with extensions other than .cpp .hpp .c .h will be automatically ignored by makewiz

If you are an Arch Linux user(or any other Arch-based distros like Manjaro), you can install MakeWiz from AUR using a tool like yay or paru:

yay -S makewiz

If you are a Debian user(or any other Debian-based distros like Ubuntu), you can install MakeWiz using a .deb file:

sudo curl -LO https://github.com/kallazz/MakeWiz/releases/download/v0.8.0/makewiz_0.8.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i makewiz_0.8.0_amd64.deb

If you are using a RedHat-based Linux distribution like Fedora or CentOS, you can install MakeWiz using a .rpm file:

sudo curl -LO https://github.com/kallazz/MakeWiz/releases/download/v0.8.0/makewiz-0.8.0-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -i makewiz-0.8.0-1.x86_64.rpm

If you have Rust installed, you can download MakeWiz using cargo:

cargo install makewiz

MakeWiz supports shell auto-completion for Bash, Fish and Zsh.

You can find the shell completion scripts in MakeWiz binary releases starting from v0.7.0. You can also download them using these commands:

Bash:

sudo curl -LO https://github.com/kallazz/MakeWiz/releases/download/v0.8.0/makewiz.bash

Fish:

sudo curl -LO https://github.com/kallazz/MakeWiz/releases/download/v0.8.0/makewiz.fish

Zsh:

sudo curl -LO https://github.com/kallazz/MakeWiz/releases/download/v0.8.0/_makewiz

After downloading the script for your preferred shell, follow these steps to enable auto-completion:

For Bash: Move the makewiz.bash to either $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bash_completion/ or /etc/bash_completion.d/.

For Fish: Move the makewiz.fish to $HOME/.config/fish/completions/.

For Zsh: Move the _makewiz to one of your $fpath directories. If you are unsure how to do this:

• place _makewiz in a directory of your choice, for example ~/.zsh/completions/
• add fpath=(~/.zsh/completions $fpath) to your ~/.zshrc, replacing ~/.zsh/completions with your chosen directory.

After opening a new Terminal window, everything should work smoothly.

To generate a Makefile using MakeWiz, simply enter the command makewiz in your terminal for C/C++ projects. For Java projects enter makewiz java.

By default, for C/C++ MakeWiz will create a Makefile with the executable name main and compiler g++. You can change this behaviour by using commands and options listed below. If you are not sure what your default compiler and executable values are, you can just run makewiz default.

MakeWiz is a command line tool that generates a Makefile based on the files in your directory

Usage: makewiz [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

Commands:
  java            Generate a Java Makefile
  set-compiler    Set the default C/C++ compiler name
  set-executable  Set the default C/C++ executable name
  default         Show default values
  help            Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -c, --compiler <COMPILER_NAME>      Set the C/C++ compiler name for this Makefile
  -e, --executable <EXECUTABLE_NAME>  Set the C/C++ executable name for this Makefile
  -m, --math                          Add the math library(-lm) to this Makefile
  -t, --thread                        Add the thread library(-lpthread) to this Makefile
  -r, --crypto                        Add the crypto library(-lcrypto) to this Makefile
      --cunit                         Add the CUnit library(-lcunit) to this Makefile
      --cppunit                       Add the CPPUnit library(-lcppunit) to this Makefile
  -h, --help                          Print help
  -V, --version                       Print version

If you have any questions, suggestions, or run into any issues, feel free to head over to the Issues tab. Your feedback is very important to me.