How does the make command automatically link to the cs50 library or the libraries used?

[CongMNguyen]

I've been struggling with it all day and just found a way to create a makefile. But folders that do not contain makefile files will not automatically link to the cs50 library.

[dmalan]

See https://cs50.readthedocs.io/libraries/cs50/c/#makefile!

[CongMNguyen]

Thank you professor

[goyalyashpal]

just saving for myself:

• the Makefile itself can be made to essentially supply just the variables' definition to make,
• i.e. like the https://cs50.readthedocs.io/libraries/cs50/c/#environment-variables section, but without actually dabbling in the mess that is the environment variables
• --debug=why is added in GNU make v4.4 (2022-10). Unfortunately cs50.dev is still using GNU make v4.3 (2020-01)

MAKEFLAGS += --debug=why
# MAKEFLAGS += --no-silent
# MAKEFLAGS += --warn-undefined-variables

CC := clang
CFLAGS := -std=c11

# Below are common C[XX]FLAGS
CCFLAGS += -ferror-limit=1 -gdwarf-4 -ggdb3 -O0
CCFLAGS += -Wall -Werror -Wextra
CCFLAGS += -Wno-gnu-folding-constant -Wno-sign-compare
CCFLAGS += -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
CCFLAGS += -Wshadow

CFLAGS += $(CCFLAGS)

# LDLIBS := -lcrypt -lcs50 -lm
LDLIBS := -lm

# Following is for use with IDEs like Geany, Kate, Eclipse, IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc
.PHONY: all

all: # <pset_file_basename_i.e._without_extension>

# EXE = foo

# SRCS = foo.c bar.c
# OBJS = $(SRCS:.c=.o)

# $(EXE): $(OBJS)
#   $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LDLIBS)

# https://cs50.readthedocs.io/libraries/cs50/c/#makefile
# https://github.com/cs50/libcs50/issues/287

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for using on windows, as these vars are essentially common to all the cs50x psets based on c-lang so, just cmd /c mklink /h Makefile <pset>\Makefile (ref: howtogeek/win-symlink)

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References:

• Implicit Variables to make https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Implicit-Variables
• --debug=why shows following output:

  $ make --debug=why inheritance
  <builtin>: update target 'inheritance' due to: inheritance.c

• MAKEFLAGS variable:

  declare mk="$(curl "https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.txt")"

  then do:

  tac - <<< "$mk" | grep flags -m7 -A4 | tac
  #                                 ^~~~ A(fter) since `tac`ed

  Or equivalently:

  echo "$mk" | bat   # then do: `?flags` and hope for it to wrap back and show search results from last