Premake is a software development tool for generating build configuration files for platform specific build tools based on configuration files that are platform agnostic. The tool is open-source.

Features

Notable features include:

• Supports building a codebase written in C, C++, and C#

• Support for generating build configuration files for Visual Studio, GNU Make, Xcode, Code::Blocks, CodeLite, and MonoDevelop

• Can build on different environments using the same premake configuration files

Examples

The following is an example premake configuration file.

Notable uses

Projects that use Premake include: 0 A.D., Bullet, Open Dynamics Engine, VDrift, and wxFormBuilder,

References

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