RobertBendun / make.hh

Build system as single-header C++ library

make.hh

WORK IN PROGRES

Make replacement for C++ project, that makes your project only dependent on C++ compiler. Goal is single header library that can be included into your project by copy-pasting. This not only makes building mechanism as cross platform as your project, but also allows for code reusage between build script and project.

Usage

To build your project:

$ c++ -std++20 -o make make.cc
$ ./make

Each of invocations may rebuild ./make if make.cc has changed. If something gone wrong, you can access previous version by ./make.old

Planned features

• Self rebuild when build script changes
• Automatic dependency resolution from C++ sources
• Support for GNU Make implicit variables
• Compiler/Interpreter version testing (C, C++, Python)
• Support for pkg-config
• Automatic compile database generation from builds
• Parallel builds
• Multiplatform
• Version control information from GIT (latest tag, current commit)

Inspiration

Tsoding nobuild