Autotools

Website? Github?

Autoconf / Automake Basics
- Mark K. Kim; Linux Users' Group of Davis. March 2, 2004.
- https://www.lugod.org/presentations/autotools/presentation/autotools.pdf
Autotools Mythbuster
- "Autotools Mythbuster is a no-nonsense guide to Autotools, written with the idea of providing a full, integrated view of the tools in the GNU build chain: autoconf, automake, libtool, pkg-config, and so on."
- https://autotools.io/
Autotools Tutorial
- https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html
Autotools Tutorial for Beginners
- http://markuskimius.wikidot.com/programming:tut:autotools
Autotools, 2nd Edition
- A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
- 2019; John Calcote
- https://nostarch.com/autotools2e
- Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to the GNU Autotools
  - https://nostarch.com/download/samples/Autotools2e_Sample_Ch2.pdf
Autotools: A Demystification Tutorial
- Embedded Linux Conference 2016; Thomas Petazzoni
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zX8LJ9Xjyk
- http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/petazzoni-autotools-tutorial.pdf
Autotools: a practitioner's guide to Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
- http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/autotools_a_guide_to_autoconf_automake_libtool/
Four Languages and Lots of Macros: Analyzing Autotools Build Systems
- GPCE 2017
- Jafar M. Al-Kofahi, Suresh Kothari, Christian Kästner
- https://conf.researchr.org/event/gpce-2017/gpce-2017-gpce-2017-four-languages-and-lots-of-macros-analyzing-autotools-build-systems
- https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/gpce17.pdf
GNU Autoconf: A uniform means of creating makefiles at build time
GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
- https://www.sourceware.org/autobook/
Minimal autotools template for C++11/14 projects
- https://github.com/mpoullet/autotools-cpp-template
Minimal autotools template for C/C++ library projects
- https://github.com/mpoullet/autotools-lib-template

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Last modified 18 May 2025