I recently finished writing a function, and small test app, I can manually compile the function into a shared library, and compile the test binary against it, but since I've never used libtools I'd like to figure out how to do it using libtools.

All the tutorials use a hello.c or really complicated examples. So I'm stuck with too simple or too complex. I only have three files: file.h -> function prototype, file.c -> function definition, and main.c -> code for the test application.

My goal is to be able to do a ...
type of solution on it.
And place the binary in the /usr/bin, the header file in /usr/include, and the shared library in /usr/lib(64)
I would be greatful for any help - Thank You

The best place I know to start:
https://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-m...ter/index.html
Apparently the fellow is or was a contributor to the project. Otherwise, you just have to study what others have done -I know how hard it is to find medium-scope projects using autotools.

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See: http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/ for an example on how to use the GNU build system.

For simple builds you can write your own makefile. For more complex builds people are switching to cmake as it does simplify things for the developer.

I was just playing around yesterday and saw the autoscan command which will generate a prelimiary configure.ac for you. Then all you need is the Makefile.am
I don't really agree about cmake -I find it even more opaque than autotools.