Build.h

build.h is a single-header library that acts as a build system, it works more-or-less like shell-script, with many built-in features:

• CMD
• INFO
• WARN
• ERROR
• writef
• substr
• get_list_of_files
• get_list_of_files_ext
• join
• join_cstr
• seprate
• run_command
• strlistcmp
• is_directory_exists
• is_file_exists

Logging

#define IMPLEMENT_BUILD_C
#include "build.h"

int main(void)
{
	INFO("Information");
	WARN("Warnings");
	ERROR("Error & Exit");

	return 0;
}

Execute commands

#define IMPLEMENT_BUILD_C
#include "build.h"

int main(void)
{
    CMD("ls", "-l");
    CMD("pwd");

    // .. more shell commands

	return 0;
}

writef (It works like printf, but returns a formated string)

#define IMPLEMENT_BUILD_C
#include "build.h"

int main(void)
{
    const char *some_stuff = "-l";
    CMD(writef("ls %s", some_stuff));

	return 0;
}

Substring in C

#define IMPLEMENT_BUILD_C
#include "build.h"

int main(void)
{
    const char *string = "Hello, World!";
    const char *sub_string = substr(string, 0, 5);

	return 0;
}

Join in C

#define IMPLEMENT_BUILD_C
#include "build.h"

int main(void)
{
    const char **strings = { "no", "build" };
    char *joined_string = join(' ', strings, 2);

	return 0;
}

Get files from directory

#define IMPLEMENT_BUILD_C
#include "build.h"

int main(void)
{
    int n;
    char **files = get_list_of_files("./", &n);

    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
        printf("%s\n", files[i]);

	return 0;
}

Check if a binary need recompilation

#define IMPLEMENT_BUILD_C
#include "build.h"

int main(void)
{
    int n;
    char **files = get_list_of_files("path/to/source", &n);

    bool recompilation = needs_recompilation("path/to/binary", (const char**)files, n);

	return 0;
}

Download using curl, and use tar to un-archive

#define IMPLEMENT_BUILD_C
#include "build.h"

int main(void)
{
    struct download_info info = {
        .url = "some/url",
        .out_dir = "path/to/out",
        .filename = "outname",
        .extract = true,
        .extract_in_dir = "path/to/extract",
        .tar_command = "tar xf "
    };

    download(1, (struct download_info[]) { info });

    // .. add more to download more

	return 0;
}