Almost every c/c++ open source project I see ships with it a configure file.
But in our own c/c++ project I haven’t seen this file so far,
when is it needed?
Almost every c/c++ open source project I see ships with it a configure file.
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Almost every c/c++ open source project I see ships with it a configure file.
But in our own c/c++ project I haven’t seen this file so far,
when is it needed?
I think you are speaking about configure script which is used, when autotools are used to build the project.
The main purpose of the
configurefile is to generateMakefilesappropriate to your system configuration and to check various preconditions (installed libs, for example).