A build system which uses SDL as a description language. It is written in the D Programming Language.
The idea of having a non-Turing-complete description is from trying out Meson, where a customised DSL is used so that processing becomes very fast. Variable defining is still legal, so functionality is not completely lost.
Here is a detailed example of a build file:
project "Example" {
languages "c" "c++"
version 0 0 1
default "example"
}
cmd "example" {
sources "example.c"
outputs "example.o"
depends "example_lib"
commands "gcc -c example_lib.so example.c -o example.o"
}
cmd "example_lib" {
sources "example_lib.c"
outputs "example_lib.so"
commands "gcc -fPIC -c example_lib.c -shared -o example_lib.so"
}
nam --build /path/to/file.sdl info: (sources do not exist)
Project "Example" (0.0.1)
Languages: c, c++
* Command: "example"
Sources: ["example.c"]
Outputs: ["example.o"]
Dependencies: ["example_lib"]
Commands: ["gcc -c example_lib.so example.c -o example.o"]
Needs updating: false
* Command: "example_lib"
Sources: ["example_lib.c"]
Outputs: ["example_lib.so"]
Dependencies: []
Commands: ["gcc -fPIC -c example_lib.c -shared -o example_lib.so"]
Needs updating: false
The Needs Updating line returns true if any of the outputs don't exist or if any of
them are older than the input files. If the input files don't exist (as was the case in the
above run), then it will always show false.
nam --build /path/to/file.sdl: (sources do not exist)
No need to update "example"
This is shown as it attempts to update the example command, but since the source file
doesn't exist it will not update it.
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