GENie - Project generator tool

What is it?

GENie is project generator tool. It automagically generates project from Lua script, making applying the same settings for multiple projects easy.

Supported project generators:

• Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
• GNU Makefile

Download (stable)

version 123 (commit eeb9b473cd5c4ddd619f2e26d27197d4af8fda8d)

Linux:
https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx/raw/master/tools/bin/linux/genie

OSX:
https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx/raw/master/tools/bin/darwin/genie

Windows:
https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx/raw/master/tools/bin/windows/genie.exe

Building (dev)

$ git clone https://github.com/bkaradzic/genie
$ cd genie
$ make

Documentation

Scripting Reference

History

Initial version of GENie is fork of Premake 4.4 beta 5, and there is no intention to keep it compatible with it.

Changelog (since fork)

• Added vs2013 support.
• Added hash UUID support. os.uuid(<string>) should produce consistent UUID.
• Added search for default script. Default script name is changed to genie.lua (solution.lua and premake4.lua are also allowed), and it can be located in scripts directory.
• Updated Lua from 5.1.4 to 5.2.3.
• Disabled SmallerTypeCheck VS option when ExtraWarnings is set (need to move it into separate option).
• New versioning scheme based on revision number from git.
• Added startproject "<project name>" to set default project in VS.
• Removed NoMinimalRebuild and added reversed logic to EnableMinimalRebuild.
• Added NoMultiProcessorCompilation flag to disable multiprocessor compilation in MSVC.
• Added ability to configure Visual Studio toolset from GENie script.
• Added UnsignedChar flag to force char to be unsigned.
• Removed vs2002, vs2003, vs2005, Solaris, and Haiku support.
• Allow source files in the same project to have the same name.
• Added WinRT support.
• Added removeflags, removelinks.
• Added vs2015 support.
• Added targetsubdir.
• Added support for solution folders group.
• Added options section (and ForceCpp to enforce C++ compile even if extension is for C files)
• Added msgcompile, msgresource, msglinking and msgarchiving as overrides for make messages
• Added messageskip list to disable some of compiler messages

Why fork?

At the time of writing this, September 2014, Premake project is on long hiatus. The last official release 4.3 is released in November 2010, 4.4 beta 5 was released in November 2013, and the main developer is focusing on Premake 5.

Multiple requests for releasing new version end up with this type of answer:

Then help fix the bugs marked 4.4 in the SourceForge tracker so that we can
make a release. Or review and improve the patches so that I may get them
applied more quickly. Or pay me to do it so that I can spend more time on
it, instead of doing other work that you value less (but which actually, you
know, pays me).

So author has high expectations for release, but he is not working on it, but rather working on completely different... Pay me to finish this sentence... You get the point. :)

This long period between releases where multiple versions are in flight cause confusion for users who are not familiar with Premake, and they just need to use Premake to generate project files for project they are interested in.

I've been using Premake for a while, I really like it's simplicity, and that it does one thing really well.

I was considering replacing Premake with other build systems that also could generate project files, but all these projects fail at being simple and doing only one thing. I don't need build system, or package manager, etc. just a simple project generator.

In conclusion, forking it and maintaining it is not much different from current state of Premake, it's just acknowledging the problem, and dealing with it.

License

GENie
Copyright (c) 2014 Branimir Karadžić, Neil Richardson, Mike Popoloski,
Drew Solomon, Ted de Munnik.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
	this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
	this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
	and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the GENie nor the names of its contributors may be 
	used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
	specific prior written permission.

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