Premake
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Original author(s) | Jason Perkins |
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Stable release | 4.3[1]
/ November 16, 2010 |
Preview release | 5.0-beta2[2]
/ September 4, 2022 |
Repository | |
Written in | C, Lua |
Type | build automation tool |
License | New BSD License |
Website | premake |
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]
See also
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