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gnumake

cross platform gnu make for nodejs

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Features

supports windows
supports osx
supports linux

Installation

npm install --save-dev gnumake

Dependencies

NodeJS

Usage

Create a Makefile

You must include node_modules/gnumake/gnumake.mk.

Makefile

include node_modules/gnumake/gnumake.mk

.PHONY: build
build: lib
lib:
	-@$(RM) -rf lib || $(TRUE)
	@babel src -d lib

Reference Makefile from npm scripts

package.json

  "scripts": {
    "build": "make -s build"
  }

Cross Platform Commands

The following commands should be referenced from make variables instead of the raw unix commands for cross platform suport on linux, osx and windows.

unix command	make variable	example
`/dev/null`	`$(NULL)`	`echo hello >$(NULL)`
`cat`	`$(CAT)`	`$(CAT) hello.txt`
`chmod`	`$(CHMOD)`	`$(CHMOD) hello.txt`
`cd`	`$(CD)`	`$(CD) hello`
`cp`	`$(CP)`	`$(CP) -r hello world`
`false`	`$(FALSE)`	`echo fail && $(FALSE)`
`find`	`$(FIND)`	`$(FIND) *.txt`
`grep`	`$(GREP)`	`$(GREP) ".+\.txt$"`
`git`	`$(GIT)`	`$(GIT) ls-files`
`ln`	`$(LN)`	`$(LN) -s hello.txt world.txt`
`ls`	`$(LS)`	`$(LS) -a`
`make`	`$(MAKE)`	`$(MAKE) -s hello`
`mkdir -p`	`$(MKDIRP)`	`$(MKDIRP) hello/world`
`mv`	`$(MV)`	`$(MV) hello world`
`npm`	`$(NPM)`	`$(NPM) install`
`pwd`	`$(PWD)`	`$(PWD)`
`rm`	`$(RM)`	`$(RM) -rf hello`
`sed`	`$(SED)`	`$(SED) -i "s/hello/world/g" hello.txt`
`tail`	`$(TAIL)`	`$(TAIL) -f hello.log`
`touch`	`$(TOUCH)`	`$(TOUCH) hello.txt`
`true`	`$(TRUE)`	`echo success && $(TRUE)`