Can anyone point me to a makefile that I can drop into a directory and it will just work?

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  • makefile

    Template for a makefile build system (by tcptomato)

    • I did something like that many years ago when I was experimenting with writing my own makefiles. Have a look if you like https://github.com/tcptomato/makefile

  • awesome-cmake

    A curated list of awesome CMake resources, scripts, modules and examples.

    • I suggest you look for modern cmake, it is really useful to learn and much powerful and portable than make have a look here: https://github.com/onqtam/awesome-cmake there is examples, articles and talks.

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  • cmake-examples

    Useful CMake Examples

    • https://github.com/ttroy50/cmake-examples is also a good examples based tutorial

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