Premake

Premake
Original author(s)	Jason Perkins
Stable release	4.3[1] / November 16, 2010
Preview release	5.0-alpha14[2] / May 5, 2019
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 Premake's features are:[3]

It supports the C, C++, and C# programming languages.
Its syntax is simple.
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

Projects that use Premake include:[4]

References

External links

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[1] "Releases".

[2] ttps://github.com/premake/premake-core/releases/tag/v5.0.0-alpha14

[3] Premake Freecode entry

[uses-4] "Who Uses Premake".

[5] Bullet 2.79 release

[6] Building project

[7] Building with Premake

[8] Building OpenJAUS