| Original author(s) | Jason Perkins | 
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4.3[1]
   / November 16, 2010 | 
| Preview release | 5.0-beta2[2]
   / September 4, 2022 | 
| Repository | |
| Written in | C, Lua | 
| Type | build automation tool | 
| License | New BSD License | 
| Website | premake | 
Premake is an open-source software development utility for automatically building configuration from source code.
Features
Some of Premake's features are:[3]
- It supports the C, C++, and C# programming languages.
- Its syntax is simple.
- 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"
    symbols "On"
    defines { "_DEBUG" }
  configuration "Release"
    flags { "Optimize" }
    defines { "NDEBUG" }
Notable uses
Projects that use Premake include:[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "Releases". GitHub.
- ↑ "Release Premake 5.0-beta2 · premake/Premake-core". GitHub.
- ↑ Premake Freecode entry
- 1 2 3 4 "Who Uses Premake". GitHub.
- ↑ Bullet 2.79 release
- ↑ Building project
- ↑ "Building with Premake". Archived from the original on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
- ↑ Building OpenJAUS
External links
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