Filipe Sousa wrote:
For those who love lua and want a build system there is premake
http://industriousone.com/premake
And I know that there is another build system that uses lua but I can't
find the link.
premake3/4 is tiny and its syntax is *really* nice.
What's similar to cmake:
- It creates Makefiles or IDE projects.
What's better than cmake (imho):
- Language syntax.
- You can easily add command-line flags like autotools.
- Install options match autotools.
- Tiny (only a couple of secs to compile it from source).
- Written in C (more easily ported than cmake).
- Makefiles generated are simple, readable and faster.
- C code is very readable and easy to follow.
- Uses relative paths.
What's worse:
- No dependency checking on .h files at all (yuck).
- Out-of-source builds is a property of the
premake.lua script (yuck).
- Verbose builds is a feature of premake, not the Makefile,
meaning you need to regenerate the makefile each time to
get verbose output (yuck).
- No find_path or find_include
- No cross-platform modules for better support.
- Small language and compiler support.
- No coloring of builds.
- No testing framework.
- No packaging framework.
(what they call dopackage is really doinstall)
- C code is a tad disorganized.
- No listing of make targets (no make help).
I really like it much better than the scons derivatives, but the lack of
proper dependency checking is a killer.
--
Gonzalo Garramuño
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