Table of Contents

1. What is Mosmake?

1.1 Why do I want to use it?
1.2 Reasons not to use Mosmake
1.3 Alternatives to Mosmake

2. How to use Mosmake

2.1 A Simple Example
2.2 Separate Compilation

2.2.1 The "simple" model
2.2.2 The "native" model
2.2.3 The "full" model
2.2.4 The "hybrid" model
2.2.5 How Mosmake finds out which model you use
2.2.6 The "smartmake" feature

2.3 Structure mode
2.4 Building more than one program
2.5 Generated source files

2.5.1 The mosmllex lexer generator
2.5.2 The mosmlyac parser generator
2.5.3 Generic support for generated files

2.6 How to cope with long dependency lists

2.6.1 Extension lines
2.6.2 Brace expansion
2.6.3 Macros

2.7 How Mosmake interfaces with the `Makefile'

2.7.1 Makefile targets defined by Mosmake
2.7.2 Makefile variables used by Mosmake
2.7.3 Mosmake and other makefile generators

2.7.3.1 GNU autoconf
2.7.3.2 GNU automake

2.7.4 Implicit rules to avoid

2.8 Extra mosmlc options
2.9 Linking with external libararies
2.10 Multiple directories
2.11 Mosmake on non-unix platforms

3. Legal terms and small print

3.1 How to obtain Mosmake
3.2 Installation instructions

4. History of Mosmake
Index