Other BSGs include Autotools (old, inflexible), Bazel It is not really in the same category as make. The most popular BSG is CMake, which stands for Cross-platform Make. These usually write a build system (or IDE) file and then let that do the actuallyīuild. Of your programming language build they usually support common compilers, languages, libraries, and Hard to extend if you want to use an IDE instead, good luck.Įnter Build System Generators (hereby labeled BSGs for brevity).Not aware of dependencies: If you require a library, you have to handle the paths, etc.Platform/compiler dependent: You have to build the commands for each compiler.Mostly hand coded: You have to know all the proper commands.Generators), invoke (a Python one), and rake (Ruby make, nice syntax for Ruby users). Some common build systems include make (theĬlassic pervasive one), ninja (a newer one from Google designed in the age of build system These are language independent (mostly), allowing you to setup builds of almost anything youĬan use make to build LaTeX documents if you wish. To be built to build file B), and ways to store the commands used to build each file or type ofįile. So people came up with Build Systems these had ways set up dependencies (such as file A needs
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You need long commands to build each part of your code and you need do to Learn about build systems and build system generators.īuilding code is hard.
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