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https://github.com/jessekelighine/makefile-for-economists

A short introduction to using Makefiles for economists.
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A short introduction to using Makefiles for economists.

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# An Introduction to Makefile for Economists



This repository contains some examples of simple projects that uses Makefiles:



- [`beamer`](./beamer/):

  A [beamer presentation](./beamer/makefile-beamer.pdf) that introduces Makefiles to economists.

  The beamer itself also serves as an example of Makefiles.

- [`demo-homework`](./demo-homework/):

  This is a minimal example of a Makefile.

  The Makefile in this minimal project is heavily commented and uses deliberately simply syntax so it is easy to understand.

- [`demo-beamer-J-SEN-chapter-5`](./demo-beamer-J-SEN-chapter-5/):

  This is a real project I created for a presentation.

  This project contains the most complicated syntax with some advanced syntax and no comments.



## Dependencies



This introduction requires the following dependencies/commands:



- `make`: Of course, this is an intro to `make`.

- `pdflatex` and `latexmk`: These two commands should come with the full

  [TeXLive](https://www.tug.org/texlive/) distribution,

  which would also include all $\LaTeX$ dependencies required by the demonstrations.

- `Rscript`: This should come with a standard installation of `R`.



## Makefile for Windows



There are two ways to use Makefile on Windows:



1. **Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)**:

   An officially supported method to integrate a Linux subsystem in Windows.

   It can be used to access the Windows file system, so it is much better than a virtual machine.

   You can find the official description [here on Microsoft's website](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install).

2. **Windows CMD**:

   People have ported the `make` program to Windows,

   so you can actually use `make` natively on Windows.

   Usually this is done by first install a package manager such as [chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/)

   and then install `make` via the package manager.



   Note that if you choose to use `make` natively on Windows,

   then the commands in the Makefile should be in *DOS shell* syntax.



   - You can find an introduction to chocolatey [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQI8OWeTpRo).

   - You can find an example of using `make` with a python project on Windows [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-UF7fNLJE).



## Miscellaneous



- You can learn a bit more about `make`

  [here](https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/metaprogramming/) from [The Missing Semester](https://missing.csail.mit.edu/),

  a lecture series that teaches you how to use basic tools such as the *shell*, *git*, *vim*, *make* etc.

- [Here](https://makefiletutorial.com/) is a dedicated tutorial to `make`.

- [Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html) for `make`.