A Short Introduction to Makefiles
Makefiles are really good at one thing, managing dependencies between files. In other words, make makes sure all files that depend on another file are updated when that file changes.…
How to use make and Makefile in Maven pom.xml
As a frontend web developer, I often find myself in a larger project, where I'm responsible for the frontend web app, and others work on the backend. More often than…
Auto-install Node.js and npm from Makefile
This is how you can detect existing Node.js and npm, or automatically install a temporary Node.js if none is already installed. About the only things needed are make, bash, curl…
A practical approach to the AOSP build system
Introduction The Android open-source project (AOSP) is quite complex and it can be hard to find a good way to get more familiar with it. I'm going to try a…