xmake

Created: 2021-09-25T21:53:47-05:00

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Tried on 2021-09-25

• Documentation on how to bring your own tasks is crap; it tells you the minimum of how to use the API and you have to mine the documentation to figure out how to even run os.exec to build something.
• Build commands sit next to BuildCmd commands but there's a huge shift in burden
• BuildCmd makes/lets you manage generated dependencies but Build does not
• There are 'kinds' but it's all C centric; 'objects' loses the filename so using it to produce an ebook is a pain in the ass
• Protobuf and Capnproto use some "autogenfile" which is never mentioned in the docs.
• Basically it's CMake but Lua
• There is a neat option to generate makefiles so you don't need xmake and i like this
• But it didn't work with the gsl stuff because "no linker for objects.{}"
• Opened a ticket upstream about this; will probably be closed but we'll see.

I would be supportive of using this with suitable documentation.

It should be really easy to copy/paste a piece to support ex. GSL or whatever formats you need so you can use it for other things.

For example making a target that compresses audio and texture assets for the correct platform.