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Using `make` to compile C programs

Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has compiled or give up”. Now that we’ve talked about how CPPFLAGS and LDLIBS get passed to the compiler and linker, here’s the final incantation that I used to get the program to build successfully! Also I don’t want to pretend that I “magically” knew that those were the right arguments to pass, figuring them out involved a bunch of confused Googling that I skipped over in this post.

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