clue/make.php

A GNU Make clone written in pure PHP. Run your Makefiles no matter whether GNU make is available.

Table of contents

• Why?
• Install
• License

Why?

GNU Make is a build automation tool that automatically builds (executable) programs or libraries from source code by reading a Makefile which specifies how to derive the target program. Besides building target programs, this is also often used to help automating repetitive work, such as the program setup, test environment and build deployment.

Here's a simple Makefile with two build targets and a set of simple rules:

build:
	@echo -n .
	@sleep 1
	@echo -n .
	@sleep 1
	@echo -n .
	@sleep 1
	@echo OK

test:
	vendor/bin/phpunit

If you have GNU Make installed, you can simply execute the first target like this:

$ make build
...OK

However, not every system has GNU Make installed (think Docker containers, shared hosting, Windows machines etc.). That's where this project comes into play.

Once installed, you can simply execute the first target like this:

$ php vendor/bin/make.php build
...OK

You can reuse your existing Makefile without switching to a different build script language. Or in other words: Run your Makefiles no matter whether GNU make is available.

Install

This project is currently under active development, you're looking at a temporary placeholder repository.

The code is available in early access to my sponsors here: https://github.com/clue-access/make.php

Do you sponsor me on GitHub? Thank you for supporting sustainable open-source, you're awesome! ❤️ Have fun with the code! 🎉

Seeing a 404 (Not Found)? Sounds like you're not in the early access group. Consider becoming a sponsor on GitHub for early access. Check out clue·access for more details.

This way, more people get a chance to take a look at the code before the public release.

Rock on 🤘

License

This project will be released under the permissive MIT license.

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