Small and generic Makefile skeleton

Makefile

PROJECT=foo
SOURCES=bar.c baz.c
LIBRARY=nope
INCPATHS=../some_other_project/
LIBPATHS=../yet_another_project/
LDFLAGS=-ldosomething
CFLAGS=-c -Wall
CC=gcc

# ------------ MAGIC BEGINS HERE -------------

# Automatic generation of some important lists
OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:.c=.o)
INCFLAGS=$(foreach TMP,$(INCPATHS),-I$(TMP))
LIBFLAGS=$(foreach TMP,$(LIBPATHS),-L$(TMP))

# Set up the output file names for the different output types
ifeq "$(LIBRARY)" "shared"
    BINARY=lib$(PROJECT).so
    LDFLAGS += -shared
else ifeq "$(LIBRARY)" "static"
    BINARY=lib$(PROJECT).a
else
    BINARY=$(PROJECT)
endif

all: $(SOURCES) $(BINARY)

$(BINARY): $(OBJECTS)
    # Link the object files, or archive into a static library
    ifeq "$(LIBRARY)" "static"
        ar rcs $(BINARY) $(OBJECTS)
    else
        $(CC) $(LIBFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@
    endif

.c.o:
        $(CC) $(INCFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -fPIC $< -o $@

distclean: clean
        rm -f $(BINARY)

clean:
        rm -f $(OBJECTS)