---
name: "tmake"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tmake"
version: "1.8-1.1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tmake"
---

# tmake(1)

create and maintain makefiles for software projects

## NAME

tmake - create and maintain makefiles for software projects

## SYNOPSIS

**tmake** \[ *options* \] *project files or project settings*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **tmake** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see below.

**tmake** is an easy-to-use tool from Troll Tech to create and maintain makefiles for software projects. It can be a painful task to manage makefiles manually, especially if you develop for more than one platform or use more than one compiler. **tmake** automates and streamlines this process and lets you spend your valuable time on writing code, not makefiles.

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-e** *expr*

  Evaluate the Perl expression.  Ignores the template file.

- **-nodepend**

  Don't generate dependency information.

- **-o** *file*

  Write output to *file* instead of stdout.

- **-t** *file*

  Specify a template *file*.

- **-unix**

  Force tmake into Unix mode.

- **-v**

  Verbose/debugging on.

- **-win32**

  Force tmake into Win32 mode.

- The **-t** option overrides any **TEMPLATE** variable in the project file.

  The default project file extension is ".pro". The default template file extension is ".t". If you do not specify these extension tmake will automatically add them for you.

## SEE ALSO

The full documentation for **tmake** is maintained as an HTML manual, located in */usr/share/doc/tmake/html/*, and is available through [**dhelp**(1)](/dhelp/1.md), Debian's help system.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Dwayne C. Litzenberger \<dlitz@dlitz.net\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).