Premake

Premake
Original author(s)	Jason Perkins

Stable release	4.3^[1] / November 16, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-11-16)
Preview release	5.0-beta2^[2] / September 4, 2022; 2 years ago (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:^[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^{[clarification needed]} 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]

0 A.D.^[4]
Box2D^[4]
Bullet^[5]
GpuCV^[6]
Open Dynamics Engine^[7]
OpenJAUS^[8]
VDrift^[4]

References

^ "Releases". GitHub.
^ "Release Premake 5.0-beta2 · premake/Premake-core". GitHub.
^ Premake Freecode entry
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "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