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Makefile.am, and there's a new mkauto.sh which builds a corresponding configure script. The old makefile has been renamed from 'Makefile' to 'Makefile.gtk', indicating that the intended new _default_ approach is to use the autoconf world. Makefile.gtk is provided as an emergency fallback in case anything fails with the new stuff that used to work with it. The new configure script does not support the same $(BINPREFIX) system as the old Makefile did. However, as I understand it, it should be possible to configure using --program-prefix="sgt-" (for example) and then the binaries should all be renamed appropriately at install time. The Makefile.am is quite painful. The Puzzles codebase relies heavily on compiling individual object files multiple times with different the cpp flags per build deliverable (program or library) and not per source file. Solution: anything built with non-default compile options has to go in its own little library. But that doesn't work either in the general case, because as soon as you have more than one such library linked into an application, Unix ld semantics bite you if the objects in the libraries both refer to each other. So I ended up building all those little libraries but not _using_ them - instead the link commands for the programs needing those objects refer to the objects directly, under the silly names that automake gives them. (That's less fragile than it sounds, because it does _document_ the names of the intermediate object files. But still, yuck.) [originally from svn r9886]
This is the README accompanying the source code to Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. The collection's web site is at <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/>. If you've obtained the source code by downloading a .tar.gz archive from the Puzzles web site, you should find several Makefiles in the source code. However, if you've checked the source code out from the Puzzles Subversion repository, you won't find the Makefiles: they're automatically generated by `mkfiles.pl', so run that to create them. The Makefiles include: - `Makefile' should work under GNU make on Linux, provided you have GTK installed to compile and link against. It builds GTK binaries of the puzzle games. - `Makefile.vc' should work under MS Visual C++ on Windows. - `Makefile.cyg' should work under Cygwin / MinGW. With appropriate tweaks and setting of TOOLPATH, it should work for both compiling on Windows and cross-compiling on Unix. - `Makefile.osx' should work under Mac OS X, provided the Xcode tools are installed. It builds a single monolithic OS X application capable of running any of the puzzles, or even more than one of them at a time. - `Makefile.wce' should work under MS eMbedded Visual C++ on Windows and the Pocket PC SDK; it builds Pocket PC binaries. Many of these Makefiles build a program called `nullgame' in addition to the actual game binaries. This program doesn't do anything; it's just a template for people to start from when adding a new game to the collection, and it's compiled every time to ensure that it _does_ compile and link successfully (because otherwise it wouldn't be much use as a template). Once it's built, you can run it if you really want to (but it's very boring), and then you should ignore it. DO NOT EDIT THE MAKEFILES DIRECTLY, if you plan to send any changes back to the maintainer. The makefiles are generated automatically by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl' from the file `Recipe' and the various .R files. If you need to change the makefiles as part of a patch, you should change Recipe, *.R, and/or mkfiles.pl. The manual is provided in Windows Help format for the Windows build; in text format for anyone who needs it; and in HTML for the Mac OS X application and for the web site. It is generated from a Halibut source file (puzzles.but), which is the preferred form for modification. To generate the manual in other formats, rebuild it, or learn about Halibut, visit the Halibut website at <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.