Simple C++ build system for gcc and clang compilers.

Meant to quickly set up and build a C++ project for testing or prototyping.

Features

• Fast build with ninja
• Makefile
• Doxygen documentation
• Sublime Text project files
• CodeBlocks project files (experimental)
• Embedder (experimental)

configure.pyz comes with a handy command to initialize a folder with a template "Hello World" project

$ mkdir new_project && cd new_project
$ configure.pyz --hello-world
$ make && ./bin/hello-world
Hello World!

It generates the minimal default configuration to build a project with configure.pyz

• A "source" folder with a C++ "Hello World".
• A sample targets.json for the given code.
• A configure.yaml with a default build configuration for the project.
• A build.ninja and a Makefile to build the project.

Say you have a project structured as

your_project/
  source/
    your_static_lib/
      some_files.cpp
      ...
    your_executable/
      main.cpp

where "your_executable" depends on "your_static_lib", and perhaps needs to be linked against boost system.

The next step is to add some targets.json to the folders containing the main function of an executable. In this example, it is enough to add one to "your_executable" folder. A typical targets.json would look like

{
	"targets": [
		{
			"target_name": "your_application_name",
			"type": "executable",
			"dependencies": ["your_static_lib.a", "-lboost_system"]
		}
	]
}

Note we added "your_static_lib.a" as a dependency. By default, any folder containing C++ source files it is recognized as static library, and configure.pyz will generate the targets for compiling as such.

Run configure.pyz

$ configure.pyz -g --makefile

This generates a configure.yaml file containing a defaulted build configuration, a build.ninja file, and a convenience Makefile with common rules.

If your code is stored under a folder called "source" directly under your root project, the configuration is most probably done. If not, tweak the generated configure.yaml for your needs.

Once the configuration is done, you can use the Makefile to build the project and generate other useful resources

$ make            # build release configuration.
$ make debug      # build debug configuration.
$ make doxygen    # build Doxygen documentation.
$ make sublime    # create a Sublime Text project file.