Writing a make file for GLFW3 - c

Question

i'm writing an emulator program and I need a graphics library. I have 4 files, the graphics library GLWF3 is installed in my includes folder. Im using MacOs Yosemite. I can't figure out how to get the makefile working though to include the glfw3 library. Thanks in advance!
Also note the only file including GLWF3 is graphics.h
Makefile
OBJ = graphics.o chip8.o
emulator: $(OBJ)
gcc -o emulator $(OBJ)
graphics.o: graphics.c graphics.h
gcc -c graphics.c
chip8.o: chip8.c chip8.h
gcc -c chip8.c
clean:
rm -f $(OBJ) emulator

Answer 1

To build with a given library, you have to:
tell the compiler how to find library header file
tell the linker which what library at must link.
Compilation
To tell where are the headers, you must pass a -I/path/to/dir option to gcc. Often, the make CFLAGS variable is used to do so:
CFLAGS= -I/path/to/glfw/include/dir
graphics.o: graphics.c graphics.h
gcc -c graphics.c $(CFLAGS)
chip8.o: chip8.c chip8.h
gcc -c chip8.c
Link
To tell linker what library to use, and where it is located, option -L/path/to/sofile and -lthelib are used. Usually in LDFLAGS variable:
Warning: The -l options must come after the files to link (*.o files)
LDFLAGS = -L/path/to/libglfw/lib/dir
# if the so file name is "libglfw3.so", the "-l" option must be "-lglfw3"
LDFLAGS += -lglfw3
emulator: $(OBJ)
gcc -o emulator $(OBJ) $(LDFLAGS)
pkg-config
To not to have to deal with paths, you can use pkg-config tool: This tool will help you to set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables. See here for installation instructions..
Hence, you makefile will looks like:
OBJ = graphics.o chip8.o
# calling program "pkg-config" and store result in CFLAGS variable
CFLAGS = $(shell pkg-config --cflags glfw3)
# calling program "pkg-config" and store result in LDFLAGS variable
LDFLAGS = $(shell pkg-config --ldflags glfw3)
emulator: $(OBJ)
gcc -o emulator $(OBJ) $(LDFLAGS)
graphics.o: graphics.c graphics.h
gcc $(CFLAGS) -c graphics.c
chip8.o: chip8.c chip8.h
gcc $(CFLAGS) -c chip8.c
clean:
rm -f $(OBJ) emulator