Matmake2

Matmake2 is a robust, fast and small c++-module-supporting build system.

Features:

• Small configuration files
• Automatic dependency checking
• c++-20 modules support

Example syntax

The following will include all cpp and cppm-files in "src" and build a executable named main or main.exe (depending on platform)

main
   src =
     *.cpp
     *.cppm
   out = main
   config =
     c++20
     modules
   command = [exe]
    
all:
  in = @main

Example of more complicated file:

main
  src =
    *.cpp
    *.cppm
  out = main       # On windows ".exe" will be added to this name
  command = [exe]
  em:ldflags       -s SDL=2    # use these flags for "em" target
  !em:ldflags      -lSDL2      # use these flags for all exept "em" target
  

gcc
  config =         # add extra warnings to this specific compiler
    c++17
    modules
    Wall
    Wpedantic
    debug          # Compile with debug information
    
  

Building on Linux

Using build script

This is the easiest way to build matmake on, and does only require you to install a relativly new compiler.

The simple way

1. Install a descent version of g++ or clang++
2. move to the matmake2 folder
3. run

make

# optional step to install:

make install

4. You are done

Compile with a specific compiler

./build-linux.sh clang++-10

or

./build-linux.sh g++-10

Build for windows

G++

Install Mingw

run

build-win-gcc.bat

Visual studio 2019 Community Edition

Install visual studio 2019 run

build-win-msvc.bat

Clang (requires Visual studio 2019 to be installed)

run

build-win-clang.bat

Build your first project

Navigate to where you want to create the project in terminal or cmd.

run

matmake2 --init project-name

matmake -C project-name --target gcc

Where project-name is the name of your project. And gcc could be replaced with clang, msvc or wine-msvc depending on what compiler you want to use

For more information about c++20 modules (in clang)

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html

Cross compile for windows on linux using msvc

(Requires access to a windows machine)

Install msvc on your linux machine

1. Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio on a windows machine

2. Install wine on your linux machine

3. Copy "Microsoft Visual Studio/2019" and "Windows Kits" from the windows machine to corresponding location on the wine drive (~./drive_c/Program Files (x86))

4. Run matmake2 with "--target wine-msvc" to compile

You might have to install the vcruntime.dll to your wine drive as well or put it in your build folder, otherwise the program will show errors on startup.