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| -rw-r--r-- | BUILD.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES.txt | 363 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/host/premake.c | 2 |
4 files changed, 375 insertions, 17 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ PREMAKE BUILD INSTRUCTIONS As of version 4.0, Premake is written in a mix of C and Lua. This mix - makes it smaller, enables the templating features, and easier the + makes it smaller, enables the templating features, and makes the whole thing easier to maintain. The trade-off is a couple of wrinkles in the build process. @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ PREMAKE BUILD INSTRUCTIONS GENERATING THE PROJECT FILES If you downloaded a source code package from SourceForge, the project - files are already included and you can skip ahead to the next section. - If you downloaded the sources from Subversion, you'll need to generate - new projects files before you can build. + files are already included (in build/) and you can skip ahead to the + next section. If you downloaded the sources from Subversion, you'll + need to generate new projects files before you can build. In order to generate the project files, you need a working version of Premake, either 3.x or 4.x versions, installed on your system. You can @@ -34,16 +34,16 @@ GENERATING THE PROJECT FILES premake --target gnu premake --target vs2005 - Use the "--help" option to see all available targets. + Use the "--help" option to see all of the available targets. RELEASE AND DEBUG BUILDS Premake can be built in either "release" or "debug" modes. You can - choose which configuration to build with the CONFIG argument: + choose which configuration to build with the "config" argument: - make CONFIG=Debug -- build in debug mode - make CONFIG=Release -- build in release mode + make config=debug -- build in debug mode + make config=release -- build in release mode (IDEs like Visual Studio provide their own mechanism for switching build configurations). @@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ RELEASE AND DEBUG BUILDS the disk at runtime, enabling compile-less code/test iterations. But it needs some help to find the scripts. - You can specify the location of the scripts in one of two ways. You - can use the /scripts command line argument, like so: + You can specify the location of the scripts in one of two ways: using + the /scripts command line argument, like so: premake4 /scripts=~/Code/premake4/src gmake @@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ COMPILING SCRIPTS CONFUSED? I'll be glad to help you out. Stop by the main project website where - you leave a note in the forums (the preferred approach), join the + you can leave a note in the forums (the preferred approach), join the mailing list, or contact me directly. http://industriousone.com/premake + + Enjoy! +
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt index 066ac69..1f3250a 100644 --- a/CHANGES.txt +++ b/CHANGES.txt @@ -1,10 +1,365 @@ +----- 4.0 (in progress) --------------------- +----- + This version is a complete rewrite of Premake. -- New, more readable syntax for project information +- New, more readable and extensible syntax for projects - More robust syntax validation - Better validation of command-line arguments -- Standardized path handling across all project settings -- Template system allows script-based custom generators +- Improved path handling across all project settings - Upgraded to Lua 5.1.2 + + +----- + 3.7 +----- + +- Updated Lua to 5.1.3 +- Added new CodeLite support target (Ryan Pusztai) +- Added new cb-ow (Code::Blocks Open Watcom) target (Tim Channon) +- Place OSX winexe's into Content/MacOS folder (William Burnson) +- Sibling executables may now be listed in package.links +- Bug 1520012: Improper Makefiles when filenames have spaces + (Diaa Sami) +- Bug 2045506: "no-exceptions" flag ignored for VS200x (Benoit Miller) +- Bug 2034470: Error in cmd line error handler +- Bug 2114152: package or config table isn't generated automatically + + +----- + 3.6 +----- + +- Patch 1946122: Add support for VS2008 (Ryan Pusztai) +- Patch 1913448: Win32 crash when using '--clean --usetargetpath' + (David Walters) +- Patch 1771168: luaL_getn speed optimization (Richard O'Grady) +- Bug 1939089: Premake segfault on Linux/PPC (Fabio Till) +- Fixed "bad argument #2 to 'chdir'" error +- Disable -MMD on multiple -arch flags (poor man's Universal binary + support) + + +----- + 3.5 +----- + +- Prevent creation of import libraries on OS X +- Improved handling of dylibs on OS X +- Patch 1771977: Ability to compile C source as C++ in Code::Blocks + (Ryan Pusztai) +- Bug 1804810: out-implib not present in linux gnu compler toolchain +- Bug 1806949: .Net reference paths are broken when bindir is specified +- Bug 1806960: Make clean does not remove .mdb files +- Bug 1831389: Makefiles stored in subdirs contain no targets on + first run + + +----- + 3.4 +----- + +- Added `no-pch` flag to suppress precompiled headers +- Added App.config support to GNU makefiles +- Add os.mkdir() to script environment +- Makefile now creates target directory before copying .NET references +- Feature 1520182: Enhanced file-handling functions +- Bug 531878: Problems with relative paths +- Bug 1723867: Config-specific post-build on GNU target (Benoit Miller) +- Bug 1596826: XML targets doesn't escape xml entities +- Bug 1600155: Core dump due to newpackage() and matchfiles() +- Bug 1608895: resgen command shown +- Bug 1639730: Output filename is not set +- Bug 1729227: non-portable executable with relative library path +- Bug 1559951: default clean rule removes package dir +- Patch 1733674: PCH support for Code::Block targets (Ryan Pusztai) +- Patch 1746563: Ability to specify GUID for VS targets (Ryan Pusztai) +- Patch 1754867: Creating import lib of different name (Ryan Pusztai) + + +----- + 3.3 +----- + +- Added support for prebuild, prelink, and postbuild commands +- Added `target` global variable to script environment +- Added build flag `no-edit-and-continue` +- Added build flags `native-wchar` and `no-native-wchar` +- Added build flag `no-manifest` +- Added build flag `seh-exceptions` (VS2005 only) +- Added `resdefines`, `respaths`, and `resoptions` +- Added `prebuildcommands`, `prelinkcommands`, and `postbuildcommands` +- Added `pchheader` and `pchsource` (Visual Studio only) +- Feature 1337547: Package-level bindir and libdir +- Bug 1565755: Generated makefiles do not work with MSYS +- Bug 1587955: Target path ignored for libs +- Bug 1574725: Static library extension for "gnu" target +- Bug 1522861: Fixed by using "ar -rcs" instead of "ar -cr && ranlib" +- Bug 1656816: Mkdir set wrong directory rights +- Bug 1655595: Compile/build problem on FreeBSD +- Bug: "gnu" clean rule doesn't work in cmd.exe +- Improved behavior of Linux findlib() +- Updated Code::Blocks support to latest project version + (major="1" minor="6") +- Patch 1681666: GNU targets always show the console if kind = 'winexe' + + +----- + 3.2 +----- + +- Added support for Code::Blocks +- Updated MonoDevelop support +- Upgraded Lua to 5.0.3 +- Added new matchdirs() to Lua script environment +- Expose list of packages as _PACKAGES global in Lua +- Turn off edit-and-continue in release builds with symbols +- Bug 1559873: libpaths inserts extra space after -L + + +----- + 3.1 +----- + +- Added support for Visual Studio 2005 +- Added support for Windows resources to GNU make target +- Added path handling functions to Lua environment +- Added matchrecursive() for recursive file searches +- Added os.fileexists() function to Lua environment +- Added os.appendfile() function to Lua environment +- Changed `monoresgen` to `resgen` to keep up with Mono project +- Added `mono2` .NET compiler set for Mono .NET 2.0 support +- Feature 1096677: exclude files from matchfiles (package.excludes) +- Bug 1439463: VS2003 RTTI problem +- Bug 1439446: GNU Makefile problem under Mingw32 +- Bug 1422068: package.path="." causes bad makefiles +- Bug 1431530: makefile target fails when project path specified + + +----- + 3.0 +----- + +- Upgraded Lua interpreter to version 5.0.1 +- The options table now stores simple values, rather than tables +- Completed MonoDevelop support +- Improved .NET resource handling for GNU generator +- Added unit test suite +- Merged Scott Graham unicode build flag patch +- Removed package.warninglevel in favor of extra-warnings flag +- Added package.targetprefix +- Overhauled structure of generated GNU makefiles +- Added --os command line option +- Fixed bug 1268588: Use gcc to link C packages +- Fixed bug 1363306: GNU C# should copy referenced DLLs + + +----- + 2.4 +----- + +- Added chdir() to Lua script environment +- Merged Thomas Harning's patch for .NET resources on GNU +- Fixed bug 1194702: Can't put multiple packages in same directory +- Fixed bug in GNU shared library builds (doh!) +- Added target 'vs2002' to replace 'vs7' + + +----- + 2.3 +----- + +- Added 'project.config[]' with 'bindir' and 'libdir' +- Merged Scott Graham's "warninglevel" patch. +- Fixed bug 1153484: Import lib in wrong directory. +- Fixed bug 1013352: Stack overflow with large projects. +- Fixed bug 945406: package.files, bad value = crash + + +----- + 2.2 +----- + +- Worked around VS.NET bug for .NET assemblies > 64K. +- Added --very-verbose flag to GNU generator. +- GNU generator now supports assembly sources. + + +----- + 2.1 +----- + +- File extension of generated binaries can now be set + with config.targetextension. +- Windows targets now handle .def files for DLLs. + + +----- + 2.0 +----- + +- Can now specify build actions per file +- Include paths are now passed to VC7 resource compiler +- Removed _WIN32 define from Cygwin makefiles +- Added package.objdir to set intermediates directory +- Added rmdir() to Lua script environment +- A big bag of bug fixes + + +----- + 1.9 +----- + +- Made verbose mode even more verbose. +- posix.c now builds properly as C. +- Fixed package dependency generation for GNU and VS2003. +- Display Lua version number in usage text. +- Fixed VS link between *.aspx and *.aspx.cs files. +- Fixed VS link between *.resx and *.cs files. +- Fixed *.d file generation for gcc 2.9x. +- Unified various help options under '--help'. +- Bin and Lib paths can now be arbitrarily long. +- linkoptions are now applied in VC6 and VC7 projects. + + +----- + 1.8 +----- + +- Added support for ASP.NET projects. +- Fixed a bug in VC6 support for static libraries. +- matchfiles() now uses package path instead of script path. +- Added --verbose option. +- No longer apply no-rtti and no-exceptions to *.c files. + + +----- + 1.7 +----- + +- Location of generated project files can now be specified with + the project.path variable. +- Inter-package dependencies are fixed for GNU makefiles. +- No longer need to execute in same directory as project script. +- Added "c" language specifier. +- Added support for .resx and .config files to C# projects. +- Added support for full assembly names in .NET references. +- Fixed handling of paths in package.target variable. +- Improved support for SharpDevelop. +- Started support for OS X. +- Added support for Digital Mars compiler. + + +------- + 1.6.1 +------- + +- VS7 generator crashed if a package was built before one of its + dependencies. Now immediately assigns UUID before processing. + + +----- + 1.6 +----- + +- Added support for Visual Studio 2003 and SharpDevelop. +- Added binaries directory as a reference path for VS7. + + +----- + 1.5 +----- + +- Added initial support for building static libraries. +- Added "no-main" flag, prevents overriding WinMain() on + Windows builds. +- Added "--no-rtti" and "no-exceptions" build flags to + disable those C++ features. +- Display error message when project has no packages. +- Moved VC7 *.pdb files into intermediates directory. + + +----- + 1.4 +----- + +- Bug fixes to the path manipulation routines. +- GNU makefiles are regenerated when premake scripts change. + + +----- + 1.3 +----- + +- Added support for the Cygwin environment. +- Added "static-runtime" build flag to statically link against C/C++ + standard runtime libraries. +- Bug fixes to Visual Studio 6 and 7 generators and path reversing + algorithm. + + +----- + 1.2 +----- + +- Standardized format of command-line options. +- Can now handle custom command-line options in script. +- Added new function findlib(). +- Added new C++ build flag "managed" for writing C++ .NET code. +- Can now use open-source C# compilers in VS6 generator. +- Several bug fixes to the VS7 generator. + + +----- + 1.1 +----- + +- Added support for custom build configurations. Added "optimize", + "optimize-size", "optimize-speed", and "no-symbols" flags to control + build settings. +- Added matchfiles() to select files using wildcards. +- Added "unsafe" flag for C# projects. +- Added newpackage() function for creating new package objects inline, + instead of creating separate scripts. +- Changed include() to dopackage() and option() to addoption(). The old + versions have been kept for compatibility, but will be deprecated + eventually. +- Major cleanup of the source code. + + +----- + 1.0 +----- + +- Fixed a bug related to the reference paths in VS7 C# projects. +- Display a warning message if a reference path can't be found. +- Automatically create bin and lib directories if they do not exist. +- GNU C# projects will now properly use the configured library paths. + + +------- + 0.9.2 +------- + +- Added --with-mono and --with-pnet options. +- VS7 C# projects will now properly use the configured library paths. + + +------- + 0.9.1 +------- + +- Switched to Lua (http://www.lua.org/) for project script parsing. +- Add support for custom project options. +- Changed 'type' to 'kind' to avoid conflict with Lua function of the + same name. +- Changed 'conexe' to 'exe' because I liked it better. +- Changed 'library' to 'dll' for C# projects to keep things consistent. + + +------- + 0.9.0 +------- + +- Initial public release. @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ PREMAKE A build configuration tool - Copyright (C) 2002-2008 by Jason Perkins + Copyright (C) 2002-2009 by Jason Perkins Distributed under the GNU General Public License, see LICENSE.txt The Lua language and runtime library is (C) TeCGraf, PUC-Rio. diff --git a/src/host/premake.c b/src/host/premake.c index 9b21cc3..d1a2ae4 100644 --- a/src/host/premake.c +++ b/src/host/premake.c @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ #define VERSION "SVN" -#define COPYRIGHT "Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Jason Perkins and the Premake Project" +#define COPYRIGHT "Copyright (C) 2002-2009 Jason Perkins and the Premake Project" #define ERROR_MESSAGE "%s\n" |