In software development, make is a utility for automatically building large applications. Files specifying instructions for make are called Makefiles. make is an expert system that tracks which files ... More

In software development, make is a utility for automatically building large applications. Files specifying instructions for make are called Makefiles. make is an expert system that tracks which files have changed since the last time the project was built and invokes the compiler on only those source code files and their dependencies.make is most commonly used in C/C++ projects, but in principle it can be used with almost any software project.make was originally created by Stuart Feldman in 1977 at Bell Labs. Though Integrated Development Environments and language-specific compiler features can also be used to manage the build process in modern systems, make remains widely used, especially in Unix-based platforms.  [edit]  Less