NAME
Alien::xmake - Locate, Download, or Build and Install xmake
SYNOPSIS
use Alien::xmake;
system Alien::xmake->exe, '--help';
system Alien::xmake->exe, 'create -t qt.widgetapp test';DESCRIPTION
xmake is a lightweight, cross-platform build utility based on Lua. It uses a Lua script to maintain project builds, but is driven by a dependency free core program written in C. Compared with Makefiles or CMake, the configuration syntax is much concise and intuitive. As such, it's friendly to novices while still maintaining the flexibly required in a build system. With xmake, you can focus on your project instead of the build.
xmake can be used to directly build source code (like with Make or Ninja), or it can generate project source files like CMake or Meson. It also has a built-in package management system to help users integrate C/C++ dependencies.
Methods
Not many are required or provided.
install_type()
Returns 'system' or 'shared'.
exe()
system Alien::xmake->exe;Returns the full path to the xmake executable.
bin_dir()
use Env qw[@PATH];
unshift @PATH, Alien::xmake->bin_dir;Returns a list of directories you should push onto your PATH.
For a 'system' install this step will not be required.
version()
my $ver = Alien::xmake->version;Returns the version of xmake installed.
Under a 'system' install, xmake --version is run once and the version number is cached.
Alien::Base Helper
To use xmake in your alienfiles, require this module and use %{xmake}.
use alienfile;
# ...
[ '%{xmake}', 'install' ],
# ...xmake Cookbook
xmake is severely underrated so I'll add more nifty things here but for now just a quick example.
You're free to create your own projects, of course, but xmake comes with the ability to generate an entire project for you:
$ xmake create -P hi # generates a basic console project in C++ and xmake.lua build script
$ cd hi
$ xmake -y # builds the project if required, installing defined prerequisite libs, etc.
$ xmake run # runs the target binary which prints 'hello, world!'xmake create is a lot like minil new in that it generates a new project for you that's ready to build even before you change anything. It even tosses a .gitignore file in. You can generate projects in C++, Go, Objective C, Rust, Swift, D, Zig, Vale, Pascal, Nim, Fortran, and more. You can also generate boilerplate projects for simple console apps, static and shared libraries, macOS bundles, GUI apps based on Qt or wxWidgets, IOS apps, and more.
See xmake create --help for a full list.
Prerequisites
Windows simply downloads an installer but elsewhere, you gotta have git, make, and a C compiler installed to build and install xmake.
See Also
https://xmake.io/
LICENSE
Copyright (C) Sanko Robinson.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms found in the Artistic License 2. Other copyrights, terms, and conditions may apply to data transmitted through this module.
AUTHOR
Sanko Robinson <sanko@cpan.org>