Top 21 C Makefile Projects

Makefile

• Add a project

1. genie

   1 4 988 5.1 C

   GENie - Project generator tool (by bkaradzic)

   

2. AppSignal

   www.appsignal.com sponsored

   Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

   

3. remake

   2 4 850 8.5 C

   Enhanced GNU Make - tracing, error reporting, debugging, profiling and more

   

4. task-spooler

   3 4 439 4.4 C

   A scheduler for GPU/CPU tasks

   

5. nuclei-sdk

   4 1 168 9.5 C

   Nuclei RISC-V Software Development Kit

   

6. webfsd

   5 2 106 0.9 C

   A simple HTTP server for mostly static content written in C

   

7. sblg

   6 3 104 8.3 C

   static blog utility

   

8. lkm-sandbox

   7 1 55 4.1 C

   Collection of Linux Kernel Modules and PoC to discover, learn and practice Linux Kernel Development

   

9. Kargo

   akuity.io sponsored

   Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.

   

10. chaotix

    8 1 37 7.1 C

    The chaotix operating system! (Previously known as Magma or Psychix)

    

11. snow-simulation

    9 1 24 6.0 C

    Interactive GUI Snowfall Simulation Created in C & Raylib

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Simple Snow Simulation in C Using Raylib | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-20

12. platypus-os

    10 1 22 0.0 C

    OS for pentesting, programming, and playing video games. Contributions welcome!

    

13. PIC32-Project-Template

    11 2 18 10.0 C

    A PIC32 project template working outside MPLAB X

    

14. Mnemosyne

    12 1 18 8.4 C

    Mnemosyne is an open source disk usage utility application for AmigaOS 3.x (by Arisamiga)

    

15. stm32f1-baremetal

    13 2 17 3.1 C

    Program STM32 Arm Cortex M3 micro-controller using bare metal embedded c

    

16. Autark

    14 2 15 8.6 C

    A declarative, self-bootstrapping build system for portable, vendored source distributions with proper dependency tracking.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Build system that lives in your project | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-24

17. GNUMakefile4TDD

    15 1 10 4.3 C

    Build system based on GNU Makefile for Assembly/C/C++ projects that need to cross-compile to one or multiple architectures and use the best practices from TDD

    

18. ch32v307-gnumake

    16 1 8 1.4 C

    Makefile project for ch32v307

    

19. ElectroBench

    17 1 4 5.4 C

    A OpenGL 2.1/3.0 benchmark designed specifically to benchmark old and new PCs.

    

20. Spiromorph

    18 2 4 2.0 C

    A mesmerizing morphing spirograph using SDL2

    

21. C-Path-Tracer

    19 2 3 0.0 C

    Path Tracer written in C. Made mostly for fun.

    

22. ccsh-shell

    20 1 1 5.9 C

    A small yet powerful Unix-like shell written in C, featuring interactive command line editing, job control, aliases, and more.

    

23. mini_shell

    21 1 0 3.3 C

    Mini shell made in C for Linux using GNU Readline Library

    

24. SaaSHub

    www.saashub.com sponsored

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    

C Makefile related posts

• Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)

  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2024

• Knit: Making a Better Make

  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2023

• Help needed: Can't install DisplayLink Drivers for my dock. Fedora 37 Kernal 6.2 Evdi 1.12.0, RPM Release isn't working

  3 projects | /r/Fedora | 4 Apr 2023

• Writing your own linker script for STM32f103 from scratch

  1 project | /r/embedded | 31 Dec 2022

• A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles

  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2022

• Sblg: Static Blog Utility

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jul 2022

• Do you consider ChromeOS and Android to be distributions of Linux?

  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 17 Feb 2022
• A note from our sponsor - Kargo
  akuity.io | 7 Sep 2026

  Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now. Learn more →

Index

Sponsored

Monitoring that respects your time & budget

APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

www.appsignal.com

Do not miss the trending C projects with our weekly report!