Baselard

A experimental build system for C++ projects. Still work in progress. It is distributed under the MIT License.

    Inputs
+-------------+
|    tags     +--------------------------+
+-------------+                          |
                                         |           Generators
+-------------+  +-------------+  +------v------+  +-------------+
|  build.toml +-->    Graph    +-->    eval     +-->    ninja    |
+-------------+  +-----+-------+  +-------------+  +-------------+
                       |
                       |          +-------------+  +-------------+
                       +----------> MSBuildConf +-->   MSBuild   |
                       |          +-------------+  +-------------+
                       |
                       |          +-------------+  +-------------+
                       +---------->  XcodeConf  +-->    Xcode    |
                                  +-------------+  +-------------+

Build Configurations:
  Debug
  Release

Platforms:
  Windows (Win32/x86)
  Mac
  Linux

Generators:
  Ninja
  Visual Studio
  Xcode

Compilers and toolchains:
  Clang
  GCC
  MSBuild
  Any private toolchains

configurations * generators * platforms * toolchains = combinatorial explosion

Build

$ go get -u github.com/spf13/cobra/cobra
$ go get -u github.com/BurntSushi/toml
$ go get -u github.com/pkg/errors
$ go get -u github.com/satori/go.uuid
$ go build

Requirements:

• Go >= 1.9

Usage

$ cd path/to/baselard
$ go build

# For generally usage
$ ./baselard ninja -i examples/app/build.toml

# Building C++ projects for macOS with Ninja
$ ./baselard ninja -i examples/app/build.toml -t mac -t apple
$ ninja

# Generating Visual Studio projects
$ ./baselard msbuild -i examples/app/build.toml -g out
$ MSBuild.exe out/out.sln -t:Build -p:Configuration=Release

# Generating Xcode projects (WIP)
$ ./baselard xcode -i examples/app/build.toml -o out

TODO

Format

• Variables

Generator

• Ninja
  • Switch compilers between gcc and clang
• MSBuild and Visual Studio
  • Project dependencies
  • *.sln
  • *.vcxproj
  • *.vcxproj.filters
    • Hierarchical Filters
  • *.vcxproj.user
    • LocalDebuggerWorkingDirectory
• Xcode
• Visual Studio Code
• CMake and CLion
• Generate Ninja (*.gn)
• qmake
• Make