Description
A call to helm-make will give you a helm selection of this directory
Makefile's targets. Selecting a target will call compile on it. You can cancel
as usual with C-g. Support is provided for the various flavors of Make tools,
as well as the Ninja build tool.
Install
Just get it from MELPA.
The functions that this package provides are auto-loaded, so no additional setup is required. Unless you want to bind the functions to a key.
Additional stuff
helm-make-do-save
If this is set to t, the currently visited files from Makefile's
directory will be saved.
helm-make-projectile
This is a helm-make called with (projectile-project-root) as base directory.
helm-make-list-target-method
What method should be used to parse the Makefile. The default value is
default, which is a pure elisp solution, but falls a bit short when the
Makefile includes other Makefile's. The second option is qp, it is much more
accurate, as it uses the database produced by make to extract the targets. But
could be a bit slower when the database produced by make is large.
helm-make-build-dir
An additional directory, relative to projectile-project-root, where
helm-make-projectile will search for a valid Makefile. A valid Makefile is
one that GNU make looks after, i.e. the name of the Makefile must be one of
Makefile, makefile or GNUmakefile to be valid.
helm-make-sort-targets
If this is set to t, sort the targets before calling the completion method.
By default it is set to nil, if you are setting it to t, and you encounter
longer delays before the targets are displayed, try to set this back to nil.
This, however, might only be the case, if the Makefile contains thousand of
targets.
helm-make-cache-targets
If this is set to t, cache the targets. Next time when you call
helm-make(-projectile) for the same Makefile, and the modification time of
the Makefile has not changed meanwhile, reuse the cached targets.
It is set to nil by default.
helm-make-executable
You can customize executable of make command by changing this variable. Helpful for implementing remote compiling.
helm-make-ninja-executable
You can customize executable of ninja command by changing this variable. Helpful for implementing remote compiling.
helm-make-arguments
Customizes arguments which are passed to the make executable when building. To
include the universal argument, use %d. Default is -j%d.
helm-make-named-buffer
When setting helm-make-named-buffer to t all make buffers will be named
based on their make target and default-directory. e.g. *compilation in
~/emacs (all)* for make all in /home/USER/emacs. This is useful if you want
to run multiple compilations at the same time.
helm-make-niceness
When set to a non-zero value, invocations of make or ninja will run at this niceness level. Default is 0, i.e. don't nice make commands.
helm-make-comint
When setting helm-make-comint to t helm-make will use Comint mode instead of
Compilation mode. This is useful if you want to interact with the make buffer.
helm-make-fuzzy-matching
When this variable is non-nil, fuzzy matching will be enabled helm make targets buffer.
helm-make-nproc
Number passed to the '-j' flag.
When this variable is set to 0, we try to automatically retrieve available
number of processing units using helm--make-get-nproc.
Regardless of the value of this variable, it can be bypassed by
passing an universal prefix to helm-make or helm-make-projectile.