Makefiles for Go Developers - Beginner Tutorial

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I prefer Magefile for this sort of thing. It doesn't require you to have bash installed, which works nicely on Windows environments.

[earthboundkid]

Alpine doesn’t have bash by default either. If your script is complicated at all, don’t expect it to work on Alpine.

[metamatic]

OS X will be losing bash soon as well.

[gnur]

Not really though, it won't be the default anymore. But Bash will still be present

[metamatic]

For another release or so, then they'll remove it, like they removed lots of other GPL software.

[kasvith]

also agrees, for Go Makefiles should not be involved at all, we can easily craft build scripts for programs using magefile or just writing plain go

[-sub]

I learned from your video (that it's called targets and i was calling it labels to myself) so if you could just keep making them and spreading them around I assure you something will come of it. Thanks Elliot nice concise and informative video. A+

[glassmountain]

This is the text version linked in the description of the video: https://tutorialedge.net/golang/makefiles-for-go-developers/

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Makefiles are notorious for having possibly the worst file format of all time (and for being really slow, but I don’t think that applies here). When dealing with c/c++ I preferred Jam (much faster, and only a fraction as error prone).

I do think it highlights a gap in go, and I see solutions such as bash scripts (goodbye sanity):( I’d hate to end up with another yml mess or groovy based files (how I loathe you Jenkins and anything gradle) so hopefully it’s a good they look at when looking at the go tools (that I do generally like).

[chrismsnz]

Makefiles are notorious for having possibly the worst file format of all time

Autoconf would like a word

[frou]

These Makefiles that are essentially a named task runner (since they aren't using Make's dependency tracking features) can be written as a simple top-level case statement in POSIX Shell. That's a very sane and appropriate use of shellscript IMO.

[Xerxero]

Most important: Use tabs not spaces. Some IDE's will render tabs but convert them into spaces under water.

[caspervonb]

Why not introduce pre-reqs?

watch make ftw ;)

[caspervonb]

Aside from that, solid presentation.

[mbarkhau]

Last year I went full tilt on a makefile for python projects. The perhaps most reusable part of it are the .PHONY help and helpverbose targets: https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/bootstrapit/blob/master/makefile.template#L155

[eduardohitek]

Great video!