Full official manual Feature list Conventions for Makefiles Important features: Writing rules How to use variables Implicit rules Bonus features and tricks: Functions for transforming text Auto-dependency generation with GCC: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8025766/makefile-auto-dependency-generation http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/advanced-auto-dependency-generation/ https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Automatic-Prerequisites Recursion (but note that recursive make may be considered harmful)