Coq prettier makefile

This is a simple utility script to render a prettier output when compiling large Coq projects. It prints a nice aligned output with color coded build times and memory usages :

Also prettifies error message by adding color and showing the relevant file location:

Installation

This package requires ANSITerminal to build:

opam install ANSITerminal

To install simply clone this repository and build with dune:

git clone git@github.com:dlesbre/coq
cd coq-prettier-makefile
dune build
dune install

Usage

To use simply call coq-make where you would usually call make. It will internally call the makefile, and parse its output to render the display. This should work even if you use a wrapper makefile around the standard coq_makefile.

Any flag arguments are forwarded to make, so you can call coq-make -j4 with the expected result. For non flag arguments coq-make will try to be smart. If it looks like a file appearing in the _CoqProject, it will call make full/file/name.vo, otherwise it will pass the argument as usual. This allows typing coq-make file instead of the lengthier coq-make path/to/file.vo

Alternatives

This script is a bit of a hack around Coq's makefile, and is in no way a proper build system. As some helpful people have pointed out on the Zulip discussion, dune can build coq projects. It also has a pretty nice, non-cluttered output by default, and can print files as they are compiled when using the --display short option. It doesn't display build times/memory usage yet, but it will undoubtedly be better maintained than this tool. I would consider switching your build system to it if possible, and using this for large legacy projects that can't or won't make the switch.