Passing C/C++ #defines to makefile

Question

I develop C/C++ using the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse also generates a makefile which I don\'t want to edit as it will simply be overwritten.

I want to use that makefile fo

Answer 1

You could write a small program to include the headers and write a makefile fragment which you include in the main makefile (requires GNU make).

This is a fairly ugly solution that requires a fair amount of hand hackery. More elegant would be to parse the project file and write the makefile fragment.