Make a Library from Several Classes
In our course at Duke, we put all the "major" classes used
in our courses (e.g., string, vector, etc.) into one library.
We then supply a generic makefile that can be used with
any single-file program that automatically looks in the
right place for header files and links in the implementations
stored in the library.
The examples below show what we use to generate/update the library
and the generic makefile. This works on Unix systems. I hope
to include informatino about making libraries in other environments
as it is available. If anyone has done this, please
let me know.
Compiling a Library
To make a library (.a) file on Unix machines use
the Makefile here.
Generic Makefile
To compile any .cc (or your favorite suffix, e.g., .cpp) into
a corresponding executable
use this Makefile . This means a file
foo.cc will generate an executable foo. For
multiple file projects you'll need to provide rules for the Makefile.