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title: "5 Tips for Writing a Makefile for Embedded Software Beningo"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-tips-for-writing-a-makefile-for-embedded-software-beningo-rwa4twb16
source_url: https://www.beningo.com/5-tips-for-writing-a-makefile-for-embedded-software
type: article
source: "Beningo Embedded Group"
published: 2026-05-31T07:47:27.189Z
updated: 2026-05-31T08:53:53.686Z
tags: ["general-programming", "c", "embedded", "build-systems"]
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# 5 Tips for Writing a Makefile for Embedded Software Beningo

**[Beningo Embedded Group](https://daily.dev/sources/beningo)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Five practical tips for writing Makefiles in embedded software development: using the shell 'find' command to auto-discover source files, splitting large Makefiles into smaller modular ones, leveraging phony targets for non-build tasks like running unit tests or Docker containers, printing binary size info after each build using arm-none-eabi-size, and considering CMake as a higher-level alternative that generates Makefiles automatically.

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