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8 Building Programs and Libraries ¶

A large part of Automake’s functionality is dedicated to making it easy to build programs and libraries.

• Building a program
• Building a library
• Building a Shared Library
• Program and Library Variables
• Default _SOURCES
• Special handling for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA
• Variables used when building a program
• Yacc and Lex support
• C++ Support
• Objective C Support
• Objective C++ Support
• Unified Parallel C Support
• Assembly Support
• Fortran 77 Support
• Fortran 9x Support
• Compiling Java sources using gcj
• Vala Support
• Support for Other Languages
• Automatic dependency tracking
• Support for executable extensions