Premake
Cross-platform build tool for configuring platform-specific builds
Premake is a software development tool for generating build configuration files for platform specific build tools based on configuration files that are platform agnostic. The tool is open-source.
01Features
Notable features include:
- Supports building a codebase written in C, C++, and C#
- Support for generating build configuration files for Visual Studio, GNU Make, Xcode, Code::Blocks, CodeLite, and MonoDevelop
- Can build on different environments using the same premake configuration files
02Examples
The following is an example premake configuration file.
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" }03Notable uses
Projects that use Premake include: 0 A.D., Bullet, Open Dynamics Engine, VDrift, and wxFormBuilder,
Sources and credits
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