C-Salt v0.11.4: Final Polishing Adjustments before Hibernation

What's Changed?

• Fixed performance on pkg kinds.
• Removed --full and replaced with --template to allow easier addition of new workspaces for specific use cases, such as the current bin and lib options.
• Added -V as the short version of --verbose.
• Removed arbitrary restriction restricting any lib units after a bin unit to instead only care if dependencies existed before.
• Updated .gitignore generation in csalt new and csalt init.
• Removed forced cleaning of build/ when csalt clean is called, and replaced with csalt clean --all.
• Added disclaimer and more package managers to package search suggestions.
• Fixed src/ usage to src to prevent Windows path bugs such as path\to\src/main.c.
• Added generation of compile_commands.json in both compile and build commands.

C-Salt is preparing to go into hibernation due to the upcoming school year as well as development velocity declining.

In-development Notice

This is not a stable version. Everything is subject to change, and may potentially break. Do not use this on already existing C repositories until you have copied it for C-Salt to use.

C-Salt v0.11.0: `Pkg` and DX Overhaul and Refactor

What's Changed?

• Stripped out cl and clang-cl support to reimplement later.
• Made many fields in Salt.toml optional, such as compiler, build_sys, build_sys_ver, etc.
• Added --mode for manual override in csalt build. Uses managed to call upon the CMakeLists.txt present if there, and fresh to re-generate it in the cache directory.
• Removed contents of build/ upon csalt clean along .csalt/.
• Added --zig-target to csalt build.
• Added pkg unit to utilize installed packages via pkg-config.
• Added ability to use custom compiler and linker flags with CMakeLists.txt, although not fully implemented or tested.
• Renamed --debug to --verbose.
• Added package manager help messages if pkg-config failed.
• Fixed dyn for macOS, extdyn is still up for contention.
• Added more binary installation options.

In-development Notice

This is not a stable version. Everything is subject to change, and may potentially break. Do not use this on already existing C repositories until you have copied it for C-Salt to use.

C-Salt v0.10.0: Compilation Pipeline Overhaul, Refactored Codebase, Resolved Hidden Issues

What's Changed?

• Fixed semver usage for build_sys_ver in Salt.toml. Unfortunately, no ranges are supported at the moment.
• Fixed Salt.toml validation path error.
• Moved compilation of object files out of the cache directory and into the mirror directory of the source file (e.g. src/main.c to .csalt/src/main.o).

In-development Notice

This is not a stable version. Everything is subject to change, and may potentially break. Do not use this on already existing C repositories until you have copied it for C-Salt to use.

C-Salt v0.9.1: Pipeline Overhaul, Missing Features Added, and Pre-compiled Support

What's Changed (Chronological Order)

• Added csalt to Crates.io.
• Added --path to nearly all commands which depend on the current directory.
  • This allows you to finally call csalt from other directories without an error!
• Added --zig-target or -z for explicitly telling zig cc to cross-compile.
• Changed many CLI messages and errors to read more clearly and neatly.
• Removed unnecessary main field from Salt.toml.
• Added unused compiler_flags, linker_flags, and many other features which had not been added previously.
• Added the ability to use pre-compiled units known as extlib and extdyn within the C-Salt unit pipeline.
  • WARNING: extdyn is known to have specific issues. See issue #23 for more.
• Added support for all CMake versions above 3.15.
• Added -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER={} into the csalt build command.

In-development Notice

This is not a stable version. Everything is subject to change, and may potentially break. Do not use this on already existing C repositories until you have copied it for C-Salt to use.

C-Salt v0.8.3: Error Overhaul and Compilation Fixes

What's Changed

• Robust Error Handling: Migrated all Result<T, E> types to anyhow::Result<T> for easier and more reliable error handling. Also removed instances of unwrap() to handle more effectively.
• Fixed Gcc-like Compilers: Basic functionality of compilers like gcc now works on both MacOS and Windows.
• Fixed Missing Libraries: lib and dyn compilation units now show the final output in the build/ directory.

In-development Notice

This is not a stable version. Everything is subject to change, and may potentially break. Do not use this on already existing C repositories until you have copied it for C-Salt to use.