Software:Premake

Premake

Original author(s)	Jason Perkins
Stable release	4.3 / November 16, 2010 (2010-11-16)
Preview release	5.0-beta2 / September 4, 2022 (2022-09-04)
Repository	github.com/premake/premake-4.x github.com/premake/premake-core
Written in	C, Lua
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 Premake's features are:

• 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, 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:

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

See also

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