-Builder
-Copyright © 2006 Mikko Rasa, Mikkosoft Productions
-Version 0.1
+Builder 0.9 Readme
+1. Description
+
Builder is a program for building other programs, similar to make, scons and
-others. It is specifically designed to suit my needs, with the goal of
-minimizing the amount of per-package configuration.
+others. Its main design goals are minimizing duplication of configuration
+between packages and being as fast as possible. Features include integrated
+configuration and dependency resolution C sources.
-* Building Builder
+2. Building Builder
Builder is normally built using itself. However, if you just downloaded the
source and don't yet have a Builder binary, how is that possible? To resolve
directory. Before running it, make sure you have the following libraries
available:
-MSP libraries: misc core parser path regex++ getopt++
+MSP libraries: core datafile fs strings io
Others: sigc++-2.0
Since the MSP libraries are also normally built with Builder, the script will
-need to have their sources available. By default, it will look at ../libs.
-You can change this by setting the LIBPATH evironment variable for the script.
-If everything goes well, you should have a builder-stage1 binary that you can
-use to build a normal version of Builder.
+need to have their sources available. By default, it will look at the parent
+directory of builder. You can change this by setting the LIBPATH evironment
+variable for the script. If everything goes well, you should have a
+builder-stage1 binary that you can use to build a normal version of Builder.
+
+NOTE: You will need to copy builderrc as ~/.builderrc in order to build some
+packages. This will be rectified in the future.
+
+
+3. Using Builder to build projects
+
+In the simplest and most common case, Builder is invoked in the package's root
+directory without any arguments. An arbitary working directory may be
+specified with -C, or an alternative Build file with -f.
+
+To build a subset of the targets known to the package, the desired targets can
+be named on the command line. Note that if -C is used, the targets will be
+interpreted relative to that directory, not the one where Builder is invoked
+from.
+
+To change package configuration, arguments of the form key=value may be given.
+By default they will only affect the current package, but with the -A switch,
+all active packages may be configured at once.
+
+
+4. Using Builder in your project
+
+To use Builder, you need to create a Build file that tells what it should
+build. This file defines two main types of entities: packages and components.
+usually there is only one package definition in a Build file.
+
+The Build file uses a C-like structured language. It consists of statements
+and blocks. Statements are terminated with a semicolon (';'). Blocks are
+enclosed in braces ('{' and '}'). If a statement contains a block of
+substatements, the semicolon comes after the closing brace.
+
+For a simple example, look at Builder's own Build file.
+
+
+5. Contact information
+
+The latest releases can be found at http://www.tdb.fi/builder.shtml
+
+Bug reports, feature reports etc. may be sent to tdb@tdb.fi
+
+Read-only SVN access is available at http://svn.tdb.fi/builder
+
+
+6. License
+
+Builder is copyright © 2006-2008 Mikko Rasa, Mikkosoft Productions
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+Full license text can be found in License.txt.
+
+
+7. Version history
+
+0.9
+- First released version
projects / builder.git / blobdiff