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.

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

License

See COPYING.md.