diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
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+++ b/Makefile.am
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+bin_PROGRAMS = harikoff
+harikoff_SOURCES = core/main.cpp
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
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+++ b/configure.ac
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+AC_INIT([The Harriman-Peikoff Project], [0.00],
+	[latentprion@gmail.com], [harikoff],
+	[github.com/latentprion/harikoff])
+
+# Safety checks in case user overwritten --srcdir
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(core/main.cpp)
+
+# Store the auxiliary build tools (e.g., install-sh, config.sub, config.guess)
+# in this dir (build-aux)
+AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
+
+# Init automake, and specify this program use relaxed structures.
+# i.e. this program doesn't follow the gnu coding standards, and doesn't have
+# ChangeLog, COPYING, AUTHORS, INSTALL, README etc. files.
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
+
+AC_PROG_CC
+AC_PROG_CXX
+
+# AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stdio.h])
+
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
+AC_OUTPUT