thenumbernine / lua-make

yet *another* build script system

Yes, another Build System.

First I made a decent Makefile system. I got it working on OSX, Linux, MinGW ... all but MSVC. Then I found myself wanting to build stuff with MSVC ... without making those stupid .vcproj files, or another NMAKE script, or rewriting everything. Because, if you have to rewrite everything, why use a one-platform tool to do it, like MSVC's stuff? So I found myself in need of a rewrite. Hence this simple build system.

It reads files labeled buildinfo. Each buildinfo specifies the distribution name, type, and any dependencies. They optionally can have a depends table that specifies the locations of all other dependent lmake-based projects. More configuration information for the buildinfo can be found in the run.lua file.

Command-Line Usage

If you want shell integration, make this file:

lmake:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
lua ~/path/to/make/run.lua "$@"

or for the windows users: lmake.bat:

@echo off
lua "C:\path\to\make\run.lua" %*

...with maybe an optional -lluarocks.require after lua depending on how your lua setup is.

and run it with the following arguments:

• lmake clean = cleans objects
• lmake distclean = cleans executable
• lmake = builds default configuration
• lmake all = builds debug and release
• lmake debug = builds debug
• lmake release = builds release
• lmake distonly = builds dist from objs only

Lua Usage:

if you're lazy:

lua -lmake

and to clean ...

lua -lmake.clean

if you want to do more than one thing at once...

lua /path/to/lua/make/run.lua clean distclean all

if you want a custom platform:

lua platform $PLATFORM make.lua

where $PLATFORM can be:

• osx
• linux
• clang_win
• mingw
• msvc

As a Lua library:

I'm using this in a few other places:

• cl-cpu
• ffi-c
• lua-include
• soon to be my CL library as I start to use SPIR-V more and more...
• ...and any other OpenCL project I have made based on that.