The autoconf/automake stuff

As the Gambas package is maintained by the automake tool, you have to define a Makefile.am file that explain how to compile the component, and what to install.

To get information about automake , you can browse the info manual on your Linux box, or buy a book as I did. I bought GNU AUTOCONF, AUTOMAKE, and LIBTOOL , New Riders Publishing , written by the authors of these GNU tools. This book, even not complete, helped me a lot to use the powerful but obscure GNU tools.

Here is, for example, a modified Makefile.am file that comes from the gb.db component sources :

  ## If the component directory has subdirectories, put them here
  SUBDIRS = ...
  ## The component description file has to be distributed
  EXTRA_DIST = *.component

  ## This is necessary to have =gambas.h= and other useful include files in the path
  INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir)/src/share

  ## The component file name
  lib_LTLIBRARIES = lib.gb.db.la

  ## Put there the shared library you need to link with the component.
  lib_gb_la_LIBADD = ...

  ## The source files and header files of the component
  lib_gb_db_la_SOURCES = \
   gb.db.h main.h main.c \
   CDatabase.h CDatabase.c \
   CTable.h CTable.c \
   CResult.h CResult.c
  
  ## Tells automake how to install the component description file
  install-exec-local:
          @cp -f *.component $(libdir)

  ## Of course, you can put every specific rule you need to compile your component