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templates.\n\n![TangoMan Makefile Generator](./assets/screenshot.png)\n\n🎯 Features\n-----------\n\n**TangoMan Makefile Generator** generates Makefile, README.md, LICENSE (Apache, MIT, GPL2, GPL3) from templates with one single command.\n\nTemplate values are configurable with `config.yaml`.\n\n**TangoMan Makefile Generator** will generate `.PHONY` rule, and detailed help from available rules and parameters for your makefile.\n\n### 💡 Self documentation\n\nGenerated Makefiles will print self documentation, with the `help` command and Awk.\n\nIf you want to add a help message for your rule, just add : `## Foo bar`, on the previous line.\n\nUse : `### Foobar` to group rules by categories.\n\n💻 Dependencies\n---------------\n\n**TangoMan Makefile Generator** requires the following dependencies:\n\n- Make\n- GAWK\n- SED\n\nwhich should be available by default on most linux distributions.\n\n---\n\n### 🛠 Gawk\n\n#### 🐧 Install Gawk (Linux)\n\nOn linux machine enter following command\n\n```bash\n$ sudo apt-get install --assume-yes gawk\n```\n\n#### 🏁 Install Gawk (Windows)\n\nOn windows machine you will need to install [cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) or Gawk for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm) first to execute script.\n\n#### 🍎 Install Gawk (OSX)\n\nGawk should be available by default on OSX system, but you can upgrade Gawk version with following command\n\n```bash\n$ brew install gawk\n```\n\n---\n\n### 🛠 Make\n\n#### 🐧 Install Make (Linux)\n\nOn linux machine enter following command\n\n```bash\n$ sudo apt-get install --assume-yes make\n```\n\n#### 🏁 Install Make (Windows)\n\nOn windows machine you will need to install [cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) or [GnuWin make](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm) first to execute make script.\n\n#### 🍎 Install Make (OS X)\n\nMake exists by default on OS X, if you want to update to a newer version use:\n\n```bash\n$ brew install make\n```\n\n---\n\n### 🛠 Sed\n\n#### 🐧 Install Sed (Linux)\n\nOn linux machine enter following command\n\n```bash\n$ sudo apt-get install --assume-yes sed\n```\n\n#### 🏁 Install Sed (Windows)\n\nOn windows machine you will need to install [cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) or [Sed for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm) first to execute script.\n\n#### 🍎 Install Sed (OSX)\n\nSed should be available by default on OSX system, but you can upgrade Sed version with following command\n\n```bash\n$ brew install sed\n```\n\n---\n\n🔥 Usage\n--------\n\nPrefix template files with underscore in the `makefiles`, `vars` and `header` directories to be concatenated.\n\nTags delimited with double curly braces (eg: `{{ PLACEHODER }}`) will be replaced with values from `config.yaml` file.\n\nValid tags are:\n\n- `{{ FILENAME }}`:    Filename of generated Makefile (default is current datetime, eg: 20210101090000.make).\n- `{{ PROJECT }}`:     Project name.\n- `{{ VERSION }}`:     Project version number.\n- `{{ DESCRIPTION }}`: Project description.\n- `{{ PADDING }}`:     Padding spaces in the `help` command.\n- `{{ AUTHOR }}`:      Project author.\n- `{{ EMAIL }}`:       Author email.\n- `{{ YEAR }}`:        License year.\n- `{{ LICENSE }}`:     License type (valid types: mit, apache, gpl2, gpl3).\n- `{{ GIT_SERVER }}`:  Project repository server.\n- `{{ GIT_USER }}`:    Project repository username.\n- `{{ REPOSITORY }}`:  Project repository name.\n\n### 📝 Note 1\n\n`{{ PHONY }}` and `{{ MARKDOWN }}` values are generated on the fly and are not configurable.\n\n- `{{ PHONY }}`:    Generated `.PHONY:` rule.\n- `{{ MARKDOWN }}`: Generated markdown documentation.\n\n### 📝 Note 2\n\nDo not use **backticks** inside `{{ DESCRIPTION }}` block, help rules or categories..\n\n### ✅ Parameters\n\nRun `make` to print help\n\n```bash\n$ make [command] author=[author] description=[description] email=[email] filename=[filename] git_server=[git_server] git_user=[git_user] license=[license] padding=[padding] 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Notes\n--------\n\nYou can find emojis for semantic enhancement here:\n\n- [gist.github.com/parmentf](https://gist.github.com/parmentf/035de27d6ed1dce0b36a)\n- [webfx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet](https://www.webfx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet)\n\n🤝 Contributing\n---------------\n\nThank you for your interest in contributing to **TangoMan Makefile Generator**.\n\nPlease review the [code of conduct](./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) and [contribution guidelines](./CONTRIBUTING.md) before starting to work on any features.\n\nIf you want to open an issue, please check first if it was not [reported already](https://github.com/TangoMan75/makefile-generator/issues/) before creating a new one.\n\n📜 License\n----------\n\nCopyrights (c) 2023 \u0026quot;Matthias Morin\u0026quot; \u0026lt;mat@tangoman.io\u0026gt;\n\n[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/Licence-MIT-green.svg)](LICENSE)\nDistributed under the MIT license.\n\nIf you like **TangoMan Makefile Generator** please star, follow or tweet about 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