Fabulous Fabrication System: The C/C++ package manager and build tool we've all been waiting for.

Building C/C++ software from source and managing dependencies is a huge hassle. Why can't we have something simple and easy to use? Something like JavaScript's NPM, Ruby's Gem or Python's pip? Well, wait no longer. FFS is the package manager we've all been waiting for, for way too long.

Installation

Clone the repo and run:

make install

The above command will install ffs in your system.

Usage

Building a package

To build a package, run:

ffs build

Any missing dependencies will be automatically installed. This command will build the targets specified in the ffs.toml file and place them in the bin directory.

Installing packages

To install a specific package, run:

ffs install <package-name>

This will add the package as a dependency to the ffs.toml file and install it.

To install all missing packages, run:

ffs install

`ffs.toml` File

The ffs.toml file stores information about the dependencies and target binaries of the package. Take a look at the following example:

[package]
name = "my_package"
description = "Does things."
author = "me"

[dependencies]
some_package = "0.1.0" # Specific version from the centralised FFS registry.
another_package = "latest" # Latest version from the centralised FFS registry.
third_package = "https://github.com/user/repo.git" # A git repository.

[targets.ffs]
src = [
	"main.cpp",
	"other.cpp",
	"third.cpp"
]