This project provides a Mix compiler that makes it straight-forward to use makefiles in your Mix projects.

API documentation is available at https://hexdocs.pm/elixir_make

The package can be installed by adding elixir_make to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

defdepsdo[{:elixir_make,"~> 0.4",runtime: false}]end

Still in your mix.exs file, you will need to add :elixir_make to your list of compilers in project/0:

compilers: [:elixir_make]++Mix.compilers,

And that's it. The command above will invoke make for Unix, nmake for Windows and gmake for FreeBSD and OpenBSD. A "Makefile" file is expected at your project root for Unix systems and "Makefile.win" for Windows systems. Run mix help compile.elixir_make for more information and options.

When publishing a package to Hex.pm using elixir_make requires you to add any file (such as the Makefile and any source files) to the files option. See the hex docs

defppackagedo[# ...files: ["lib","LICENSE","mix.exs","README.md",# These are the default files"src/*.[ch]","Makefile"],# You will need to add something like this.# ...]end

Same as Elixir.