OctaBuild/README.md

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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.

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

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.

The octabuild binary supports the -h option to display help.

License

See COPYING.md.