Premake

Premake
Original author(s)	Jason Perkins

Stable release	4.3^[1] / November 16, 2010 (2010-11-16)
Preview release	5.0-alpha11^[2] / January 13, 2017 (2017-01-13)

Repository	github.com/premake/premake-4.x github.com/premake/premake-core
Written in	C, Lua
Type	build automation tool
License	New BSD License
Website	premake.github.io

Premake is an open-source software development utility for automatically building configuration from source code.

Features

Some of the features of the system are:^[3]

It supports C, C++, and C# languages source code.
It has a simple syntax.
It can generate automatic build files for Visual Studio, GNU Make, Xcode, Code::Blocks, CodeLite, SharpDevelop, and MonoDevelop.
Using just one configuration set of files, different systems can be built.

Sample script

The following is an example Premake script for a simple software project.

solution "MySolution"
   configurations { "Debug", "Release" }

project "MyProject"
   kind "ConsoleApp"
   language "C++"
   includedirs { "include" }
   files { "src/**.h", "src/**.cpp" }

   configuration "Debug"
      symbols "On"
      defines { "_DEBUG" }

   configuration "Release"
      flags { "Optimize" }
      defines { "NDEBUG" }

Notable uses

There are a number of notable uses including:^[4]

References

External links

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