Vizmake visualizes make. It runs a modified GNU make to collect trace data
and visualizes some useful information of Makefile. Visualization provides
developers great insight of the make process.
Current implementation supports:
- Viewing what commands are actually invoked during build time.
- Visualizing lines in Makefile that reference variables and the actual value of a referenced variable during build time. [Mac OS X and Linux]
- Analyzing and visualizing dependencies in rules to help figure out what dependencies are potentially missed or are potentially extra. [Linux (rely on strace)]
Let $(VIZMAKE) be the path of the root directory of vizmake project.
- Go into $(VIZMAKE)/make/ directory to build the modified version of GNU make. The binary
file
makeshould be in the $(VIZMAKE)/make directory. - Run
python $(VIZMAKE)/vizmake.pyin any project as how you runmake. Think ofpython vizmake.pyas amakewrapper. You can pass anymakecommand line arguments topython $(VIZMAKE)/vizmake.py. - Open web browser to see http://localhost:8000
This screenshot is in a terminal after running
python $(VIZMAKE)/vizmake.py all
which is equivalent to
make all
except for doing visualization:
This screenshot is in a browser showing all make processes and all command
processes (e.g., gcc) spawned from a make process:
This screenshot is in a browser showing the full command line to execute a
process after clicking on one CMD link in the index page:
This screenshot is in a browser showing the visualization of Makefile's variable
view after clicking on one VAR link in the index page:
This page visualizes the lines in a Makefile that reference some variables. It also visualizes the information of each referenced variable during build time, including the variable value, the source of variable definition, and other variables referenced by a variable.
This screenshot is in a browser showing the visualization of dependencies in rules
view after clicking on one DEP link in the index page:
http://wenbinf.github.com/vizmake/demo
GPLv3