Premake

Premake

Original author(s)	Jason Perkins
Stable release	4.4-beta5 / November 21, 2013 (2013-11-21)
Preview release	5.0-alpha3 / May 5, 2015 (2015-05-05)
Written in	C, Lua
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	build automation tool
License	New BSD License
Website	premake.github.io

Premake is an open source software development utility for automatically building configuration from source code.

Features

Some of the features of the system are:

• It supports C, C++, and C# languages source code.
• It has a simple syntax
• It can generate automatic build files for Visual Studio, GNU Make, Xcode, Code::Blocks, CodeLite, SharpDevelop, and MonoDevelop.
• Using just one configuration set of files, different systems can be built.

Sample script

The following is an example Premake script for a simple software project.

solution "MySolution"
   configurations { "Debug", "Release" }

project "MyProject"
   kind "ConsoleApp"
   language "C++"
   includedirs { "include" }
   files { "src/**.h", "src/**.cpp" }

   configuration "Debug"
      flags { "Symbols" }
      defines { "_DEBUG" }

   configuration "Release"
      flags { "Optimize" }
      defines { "NDEBUG" }

Notable uses

There are a number of notable uses including:

• 0 A.D.
• Box2D
• Bullet
• GpuCV
• Open Dynamics Engine
• OpenJAUS
• VDrift

See also

• List of build automation software § Build script generation tools
• configure script
• CMake
• GYP

External links

• Official website
• Premake on SourceForge.net
• Premake on GitHub
• Premake at Open Hub
• Premake at Freecode