Premake

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.

Premake
Original author(s)	Jason Perkins
Stable release	4.3[1] / 16 November 2010; 14 years ago (16 November 2010)
Preview release	5.0.0-beta4[2] / 30 December 2024; 7 months ago (30 December 2024)
Repository	github.com/premake/premake-4.x github.com/premake/premake-core
Written in	C, Lua
Type	build automation tool
License	3-clause BSD License[3]
Website	premake.github.io

Features

Notable features include:^[4]

• 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^{[clarification needed]}

Examples

The following is an example premake configuration file.

solution "MySolution"
  configurations { "Debug", "Release" }

project "MyProject"
  kind "ConsoleApp"
  language "C++"
  includedirs { "include" }
  files { "src/**.h", "src/**.cpp" }

  configuration "Debug"
    symbols "On"
    defines { "_DEBUG" }

  configuration "Release"
    flags { "Optimize" }
    defines { "NDEBUG" }

Notable uses

Projects that use Premake include: 0 A.D., Bullet, Open Dynamics Engine, VDrift, and wxFormBuilder,^[5]