Note: This post won’t make sense here. Refer to the original post.

In my previous post titled Fast Compilation and Execution of Source Code, I included a makefile. After I’ve been familiar with SyntaxHighlighter, I changed the code of the makefile so that the new tool is used. However, as I’ve written in my earlier post, SyntaxHighlighter has no makefile support, while highlight.js and google-code-prettify have that feature.¹²³

I think, therefore I am.

In order to be sure about their claims, I’ve done a test and the results are as follow.

highlight.js:

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hello: hello.c
	gcc -o hello hello.c
clean:
	rm -f hello

Maybe my makefile is too simple that it lacks some typical features for the automatic language recognition of highlight.js. Let’s see the sample code copied from the official demo.

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# Makefile

BUILDDIR      = _build
EXTRAS       ?= $(BUILDDIR)/extras

.PHONY: main clean

main:
	@echo "Building main facility..."
	build_main $(BUILDDIR)

clean:
	rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/*

google-code-prettify

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hello: hello.c
	gcc -o hello hello.c
clean:
	rm -f hello

Let’s see a real one.

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# Makefile

BUILDDIR      = _build
EXTRAS       ?= $(BUILDDIR)/extras

.PHONY: main clean

main:
	@echo "Building main facility..."
	build_main $(BUILDDIR)

clean:
	rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/*

Unluckily, I can’t figure out the way to include a tab, instead of whitespaces, for makefiles. Anyways, one who use makefiles will know that after running make on the first day.