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Top 8 Makefile C Projects

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  1. nativefiledialog

    A tiny, neat C library that portably invokes native file open and save dialogs.

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  3. embedded-resources

    Embedded Artistry Templates, Documents, and Source Code

  4. sdl2-examples

    SDL2 examples, for 25+ different programming languages

  5. quasi-msys2

    Cross-compile C/C++ to Windows using MSYS2 packages

  6. simple-build-system

    Easy to use and configure C/C++ build system based on Gnu Make

    Project mention: OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-08

    > Because it's really limited and not expressive?

    It's neither of those unless you limit yourself to a lowest-common-denominator feature set. GNU Make, for example, is a Turing-complete, dynamic programming language and a CLI task runner. You can build a build system in GNU Make (https://github.com/omercsp/simple-build-system) just like you can do so in any other language.

    Make suffers from unfamiliar syntax, unorthodox choices, and inconsistent language design. So it's not a good language, and saying it "sucks" is not completely unjustified, but not because it's limited. Looking at SBS, it also seems quite expressive, although I can't say I ever tried building something in it myself.

  7. gba-raytracer

    Simple Raytracer for the Gameboy Advance written in C

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  9. colors

    A naive example of printing escape code colors implemented in multiple languages (by stefanos82)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source C projects in Makefile? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 nativefiledialog 1,987
2 embedded-resources 671
3 sdl2-examples 357
4 quasi-msys2 168
5 simple-build-system 16
6 arduino-blink-purec 9
7 gba-raytracer 8
8 colors 1

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