Build Procedure of a Compiler Project written in C

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Hi all! I’m new here. :slight_smile:

Description

I came up with a data format very similar to JSON to help plan out and express the structure of a file system in a neat way. I’m working on a project where I’m building a compiler to convert the description into a bash script to generate the file system.

What I did

I was trying to implement the two-step installation process: configure followed by a make. I didn’t use automake because it felt a bit too complicated for me for now.

Here’s a tiny description of what I did:

Requirements

  • build-essential: for gcc and g++
  • flex: for lexing
  • bison: for parsing
  • tree: to visualize a file system

Files to consider

configure

Here I wrote a bash script to check whether the requirements are available. If not, they are installed using:

$ apt-get install <package-name>

After installation, the locations of the executables are stored in few variables and a file named tools is generated having the list of the requirements and their respective locations.

Makefile

The file tools generated by configure is included and based on that the executable fs-make is built using the make command.

The command make install copies the executable to /usr/local/bin/.

What I want

I’ve never done anything like this before. I would appreciate if anyone could kindly advise me on the build procedure used by the project.

Thank you. Stay safe. :slight_smile: