.make

Makefiles

This is a collection of Makefiles that may be included for some default behavior.

General Makefiles

help.mk

• generates help text as default target
• help text is generated by adding targets & variables to dynamic variables
• variables
  • TARGETS
    • tracks targets that should appear in help text
  • TARGETS_<name>
    • tracks targets that should appear as a subtarget of <name>
  • VARIABLES
    • tracks groups of variables that should appear in help text
  • VARIABLES_<name>
    • tracks variables that should appear as part og the <name> group in help text
  • HELP_<name>
    • if <name> is in TARGETS or VARIABLES it is used as help text

common.mk

• common behavior for all Makefiles
  • includes help.mk
  • should be used as base if new specific Makefile is added
• creates common targets
  • all
  • build
  • test
  • check
  • setup
  • clean
  • distclean
  • docker
    • starts docker container
    • onlt exists if DOCKER_IMAGE is specified
• variables
  • DEPENDS
    • array of directories
    • if common target is executed, make will execute the same target in these directories prior to executing it in the current Makefile
  • DOCKER_IMAGE
    • default docker image to use if target should be executed in docker
  • DOCKER_<name>
    • custom docker image for the target <name>
  • DOCKER
    • tracks targets which should be executed inside the specified docker image
    • when one target is executed in docker, dependencies are also executed in docker if not specified otherwise
  • NO_DOCKER
    • tracks targets which shall not be executed inside docker

Specific Makefiles

docker.mk

• common behavior for all docker images

idf.mk

• common behavior for all idf framework related projects

part.mk

• common behaviour for all parts

product.mk

• common behaviour for all products