Simple Makefile generator

Update: For a much more advanced version of this script, see Makefile Generator, version 2 post.

Presented here is a simple bash script for automatic Makefile generating.
This script simply takes all .c, .cpp, .c++ and .cxx files in the current folder, and generates Makefile that builds an executeable from all these sources.
Dependencies are generated using the gcc‘s -MM functionality.

About the script

This script is provided under BSD-style license.

Of course, any comments, reports of use, and suggestions are very much welcome – just leave me a comment! It takes just a moment, and makes me know I didn’t put all the work in posting and updating this for nothing.

Windows XP under VirtualBox

I’ll be updating this post with stuff about common problems with running WinXP under VirtualBox (with Linux – in my case Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex – as host).

How to convert UTF-8 to wchar_t (and back)

While this seems like re-inventing the wheel, it sure is hard to find this code for free on-line (believe me, I tried 😉 ).
Of course, you might wanna use iconv for this, but it’s a bit too huge if all you want is UTF-8 <-> wchar_t.

Fortunately, Alexey Vatchenko has made the code available under BSD license, with a simple and clean interface.

Note: This code is converting UTF-8 to UCS-4-internal, thus it works properly only on systems, where size of wchar_t is 4 bytes (Linux/Unix, BSD, MacOS), but not on Windows, where wchar_t is only 2 bytes!

Happy coding!