Creating Makefiles in Linux for installing programs

[uniquerockrz]

I have written a console program in C named main.c.

I want to turn it into an application, so that using a Makefile and 'make' and 'make install' commands one is able to install that in his/her computer.

Any ideas how to do that? I have searched tutorials for making the Makefile but they just tell me the way to compile the source files, not "install" them.

PS, I use Fedora 15 and Code::Blocks Ide, if that is of any help.

PPS : I have seen that copying the executable produced by gcc to /usr/bin directory does has the same result as installing. Is that what 'make install' command does?

[atreyu]

Create a Makefile and put it in the same dir as your *.c file. Here's a very basic example of a Makefile:

CC      = /usr/bin/gcc
STRIP   = /usr/bin/strip
SRC     = myprog.c
OBJ     = myprog.o
EXE     = myprog

.c.o: $(INC)
        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $*.c
all: $(EXE)
        $(STRIP) $(EXE)
clean:
        rm -f *.o rm -f *% $(EXE)
$(EXE): $(OBJ)
        $(CC) -o $(EXE) $(OBJ) $(LIBS)
install :
        cp $(EXE) $(BINDIR)

It will compile myprog.c into a binary named myprog when you run "make". It will copy it to the $BINDIR location (which you can specify various ways) when you run "make install"