8 Building Programs and Libraries

A large part of Automake's functionality is dedicated to making it easy to build programs and libraries.

• A Program: Building a program
• A Library: Building a library
• A Shared Library: Building a Libtool library
• Program and Library Variables: Variables controlling program and library builds
• Default _SOURCES: Default source files
• LIBOBJS: Special handling for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA
• Program Variables: Variables used when building a program
• Yacc and Lex: Yacc and Lex support
• C++ Support: Compiling C++ sources
• Objective C Support: Compiling Objective C sources
• Objective C++ Support: Compiling Objective C++ sources
• Unified Parallel C Support: Compiling Unified Parallel C sources
• Assembly Support: Compiling assembly sources
• Fortran 77 Support: Compiling Fortran 77 sources
• Fortran 9x Support: Compiling Fortran 9x sources
• Java Support with gcj: Compiling Java sources using gcj
• Vala Support: Compiling Vala sources
• Support for Other Languages: Compiling other languages
• Dependencies: Automatic dependency tracking
• EXEEXT: Support for executable extensions