From 0e8bb9f989248a18a528363d0b5a49ea271b25a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Duensing <scott@duensing.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 15:38:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Place build outputs in obj/ and bin/ directories

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 forms/.gitignore |  2 ++
 forms/README.md  |  4 ++--
 forms/makefile   | 14 ++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 forms/.gitignore

diff --git a/forms/.gitignore b/forms/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6e49ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/forms/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+obj/
+bin/
diff --git a/forms/README.md b/forms/README.md
index 5204ab1..5485807 100644
--- a/forms/README.md
+++ b/forms/README.md
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ Windows 3.1 controls and sends user events back to the server.
 ## Building
 
 ```
-make              # builds dfm2form and formsrv.o
-make clean        # removes build artifacts
+make              # builds bin/dfm2form and obj/formsrv.o
+make clean        # removes obj/ and bin/
 ```
 
 Requires GCC on Linux.  The Delphi unit (`formcli.pas`) is compiled as
diff --git a/forms/makefile b/forms/makefile
index 69b929e..af978b1 100644
--- a/forms/makefile
+++ b/forms/makefile
@@ -2,15 +2,21 @@ CC      = gcc
 CFLAGS  = -Wall -Wextra -std=c99 -O2
 LDFLAGS =
 
-all: dfm2form formsrv.o
+OBJDIR = obj
+BINDIR = bin
 
-dfm2form: dfm2form.c
+all: $(BINDIR)/dfm2form $(OBJDIR)/formsrv.o
+
+$(BINDIR)/dfm2form: dfm2form.c | $(BINDIR)
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(LDFLAGS)
 
-formsrv.o: formsrv.c formsrv.h
+$(OBJDIR)/formsrv.o: formsrv.c formsrv.h | $(OBJDIR)
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ formsrv.c
 
+$(OBJDIR) $(BINDIR):
+	mkdir -p $@
+
 clean:
-	rm -f dfm2form formsrv.o
+	rm -rf $(OBJDIR) $(BINDIR)
 
 .PHONY: all clean