/MakeC

A simple and intuitive build system for C/C++ written entirely in C that uses C as a scripting language

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MakeC

A simple C/C++ build system written in C that uses C as a project specification language

Usage

Using MakeC is really easy as it comes as a single include header that you can just copy in your project, include it in any C/C++ file, write your project specification in C/C++ and then compile that file with either the makebuild.bat provided in any of the examples or with any modern C/C++ compiler.

Writing a project specification

As a previusly stated MakeC uses C/C++ as a project specification language so that you do not have to learn an entirely new scripting language just to compile your C/C++ projects. A quick example on how MakeC uses C/C++ as a project spefication language follows:

project Project = NewProject("HelloMakeC", OUTPUT_KIND_EXE, COMPILER_KIND_MSVC);
AddFileToProject(&Project, "main.c");

int ErrorCode = 0;
CompileProjectAndWait(&Project, &ErrorCode,  COMPILATION_SETTINGS_NONE);

MakeC would translate this code to the following compilation command

cl /nologo /FC /Fo:"./" /MD main.c /link /OUT:"HelloMakeC.exe"

More examples are available in the repository.