[ale] [OT] Learning C

[DjPfulio]

Yep, the first thing I did was bring over an old, simple, makefile for an old C project.

The second thing I did was a youtube search for introduction to makefiles. Watched three of them and was disappointed. They didn't cover the simplest stuff.

It is generally impossible to count on the built-in rules of a make program because it doesn't have include directories or libraries, and most production code will include both of those for any specific project.

On 14 December 2015 12:53:03 GMT-05:00, "Scott M. Jones" <eff at dragoncon.org> wrote:
>I was surprised to find he is using the built-in rules of make rather
>than running cc directly on the command line.  In production code I
>made
>a personal rule to never depend on built in rules of make and to put
>all
>rules explicitly in the makefile, but for educational purposes it's
>probably OK.  Still, if he's teaching the command line way I'm
>surprised
>he isn't using cc directly from the command line.  I've also seen
>systems with cc/gcc installed but no make installed.
>
>-Scott
>
>On 12/14/15 10:54 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> 
>> If anyone has already started their journey to learning C with Leam,
>great!
>> 
>> I worked through the first 8 exercises this morning using the online
>book -
>> http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
>> 
>> There are many subtle things not covered, but worth knowing.
>> 
>> He writes about makefiles, valgrind and printf() in a "do this, but
>don't worry
>> if you don't understand it" way. Perhaps the author will come back
>later for
>> deeper explanation? I dunno.
>
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