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octabuild
OctaBuild is a simple build system inspired by Make, but using the Cubescript language to write build definitions and not depending on a shell to function. It'll also feature things such as automatic dependency tracking and a large utility library abstracting away platform differences. Unlike Make, the program flow of OctaBuild is single threaded, offloading things such as compiler calls into a thread pool. Therefore, things such as standard output are unaffected by threading.
It can be used standalone at this point. Once everything is more done, a library form will be introduced.
It needs libcubescript to function, which you can fetch at https://git.octaforge.org/tools/libcubescript.git or at https://github.com/OctaForge/libcubescript as well as OctaSTD at https://git.octaforge.org/tools/octastd.git or at https://github.com/OctaForge/OctaSTD.
Features
- A real scripting language
- Similar to Make in many ways
- Currently manual dependency tracking
- Parallel builds
- Glob matching
- GNU Make style pattern rules
Upcoming features:
- Automatic dependency tracking
- Shell independence
- Proper argument handling
- Platform related utilities
- Rule pre-callbacks
Usage
Use the provided Makefile to build - adjust the paths to OctaSTD and
libcubescript if necessary. There is a provided example build script
in example.
It's also possible to build OctaBuild with OctaBuild. There is a provided obuild.cfg in the main directory.
The octabuild binary supports the -h option to display help.
License
See COPYING.md.