Next time you build software, see if there's a makefile and try exploring its contents. Hopefully, you can understand some of the basics and recognize some of what's going on under the hood.

A Makefile is a file that contains information about a program’s flow, targets, and libraries. It is also known as a description file as it includes a group of targets and the sources on which ...

Enter the Arduino Makefile. What began as [Sudar’s] lightweight program to escape the IDE has become a fully-blown, feature rich Makefile that has evolved and adapted to grow with the changes of ...