Auto tools tutorial

Autotools Tutorial

This is the home of my tutorial for Autotools.

This tutorial covers:

• The GNU Build System

• The GNU Autotools:

  • Autoconf
  • Automake
  • Libtool
  • Gettext

It targets people familiar with Unix development (i.e., basic knowledge of shell, make, C, and Unix is assumed) who want to learn using these tools, or simply understand their purpose.

The Tutorial

• The tutorial in PDF
• Handout version in PDF (4 slides per pages without animations, for printing)
• LaTeX sources (using the Beamer class)

These files are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. However trivial source code examples displayed in this tutorial (such as the C files, Makefile.am, and configure.ac of all the amhello projects) can be reused as if they were in the public domain.

Feedback

I welcome suggestions and corrections for this tutorial (send them to adl@gnu.org).

Refer to http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html