Before using this, see if build-objects would work. It is the successor to this project, and I consider it to be better.
This is a dependency-aware build system for simple C/C++ projects that
integrates with Makefiles. Unlike a plain Makefile, it naturally allows builds
of multiple optimization levels at once, e.g. 'debug' and 'release'. I have
written it so that no external dependencies other than Perl are required; just
put the file compile into your project root. The system unfortunately only
works on Unix.
You can use ./compile -h for help. I have used the build system as an example
with my other project TS3D. The example branch is
here.
The build system requires some things of the project structure:
- All sources are in a flat source directory.
- Few special characters in file names. This may include non-ASCII characters. File names probably shouldn't start with dashes.
- Compilation units (non-header source files) are not included in other files.
This build system is by no means perfect. Header dependencies are not cached, and scanning for them can take a bit. However, compilation units that have changed do not need to be scanned for dependencies. They can be compiled in parallel with the dependency scan.