Autotools Tutorial for Beginners

Writing cross-platform programs can be a pain on anyone's bottom. Autotools can help you with this, though. Unfortunately, it is difficult to find good tutorials on the subject. I hope this tutorial can change all that.

This tutorial isn't a comprehensive tutorial on the subject. Instead, I designed it to help you jump-start your learning of the subject. After this tutorial, you should be able to read other tutorials and documents easier.

Let's start!

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 - Autotools introduction
• Chapter 2 - Let's add Autoconf to "Hello, world!"
• Chapter 3 - Let's make "Hello, world!" portable
• Chapter 4 - Let's add Automake to our program
• Chapter 5 - Autotools tutorial summary
• Appendix A - Autotools resources list