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Premake
Original author(s)	Jason Perkins
Stable release	4.3 / November 16, 2010; 13 years ago
Preview release	5.0-beta2 / September 4, 2022; 2 years ago
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

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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^{[clarification needed]} 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

^ "Releases". GitHub.
^ "Release Premake 5.0-beta2 · premake/Premake-core". GitHub.
^ Premake Freecode entry
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Who Uses Premake". GitHub.
^ Bullet 2.79 release
^ Building project
^ "Building with Premake". Archived from the original on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
^ Building OpenJAUS

External links

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[1] "Releases". GitHub.

[2] "Release Premake 5.0-beta2 · premake/Premake-core". GitHub.

[3] Premake Freecode entry

[uses-4] "Who Uses Premake". GitHub.

[5] Bullet 2.79 release

[6] Building project

[7] "Building with Premake". Archived from the original on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2011-07-04.

[8] Building OpenJAUS

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 | latest release version = 4.3<ref>{{cite web |title=Releases |website=[[GitHub]] |url=https://github.com/premake/premake-4.x/releases}}</ref>
 | latest release date    = {{release date and age|2010|11|16}}
-| latest preview version = 5.0-alpha14<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/premake/premake-core/releases/tag/v5.0.0-alpha14|title = Release Premake 5.0 alpha 14 · premake/Premake-core| website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref>
+| latest preview version = 5.0-beta2<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/premake/premake-core/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta2|title = Release Premake 5.0-beta2 · premake/Premake-core| website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref>
-| latest preview date    = {{release date and age|2019|05|05}}
+| latest preview date    = {{release date and age|2022|09|04}}
 | programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]]
 | license                = [[New BSD License]]