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• Introduction of xmake v2.2.5 new features

  2019-04-01

  xmake

  xmake  lua  C/C++  package  conan  homebrew  vcpkg

  This version took more than four months to refactor and improve the package dependency management. The official repository added common packages such as mysql and ffmpeg, and added a lot of features.

  • Github
  • Documents

  Builtin package manager

  add_requires("libuv master", "ffmpeg", "zlib 1.20.*")`
  

  xmake will find and install packages from the official package repository (xmake-repo).

  Support third-party package manager

  xmake adds built-in support for third-party package managers, explicitly specifying packages in other package managers through package namespaces, and it currently supports conan::, brew:: and vcpkg:: packages.

  Install packages from homebrew/linuxbrew

  add_requires("brew::zlib", {alias = "zlib"}})
  add_requires("brew::pcre2/libpcre2-8", {alias = "pcre2"}})
  
  target("test")
      set_kind("binary")
      add_files("src/*.c") 
      add_packages("pcre2", "zlib")
  

  Install packages from vcpkg

  add_requires("vcpkg::zlib", "vcpkg::pcre2")
  
  target("test")
      set_kind("binary")
      add_files("src/*.c") 
      add_packages("vcpkg::zlib", "vcpkg::pcre2")
  

  Install packages from conan

  The new version implements the conan generator to integrate the package information in the conan. It is also very convenient to use in xmake, and can pass all the configuration parameters of the conan package.

  add_requires("conan::zlib/1.2.11@conan/stable", {alias = "zlib", debug = true})
  add_requires("conan::OpenSSL/1.0.2n@conan/stable", {alias = "openssl", configs = {options = "OpenSSL:shared=True"}})
  
  target("test")
      set_kind("binary")
      add_files("src/*.c") 
      add_packages("openssl", "zlib")
  

  After executing xmake to compile:

  ruki:test_package ruki$ xmake
  checking for the architecture ... x86_64
  checking for the Xcode directory ... /Applications/Xcode.app
  checking for the SDK version of Xcode ... 10.14
  note: try installing these packages (pass -y to skip confirm)?
    -> conan::zlib/1.2.11@conan/stable  (debug)
    -> conan::OpenSSL/1.0.2n@conan/stable  
  please input: y (y/n)
  
    => installing conan::zlib/1.2.11@conan/stable .. ok
    => installing conan::OpenSSL/1.0.2n@conan/stable .. ok
  
  [  0%]: ccache compiling.release src/main.c
  [100%]: linking.release test
  

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• xmake v2.2.5, More complete package dependency management

  2019-03-29

  xmake

  xmake  lua  C/C++  Package

  This version took more than four months to refactor and improve the package dependency management. The official repository added common packages such as mysql and ffmpeg, and added a lot of features.

  • Github
  • Documents

  New features

  • Add string.serialize and string.deserialize to serialize and deserialize object, function and others.
  • Add xmake g --menu
  • #283: Add target:installdir() and set_installdir() api for target
  • #260: Add add_platformdirs api, we can define custom platforms
  • #310: Add theme feature
  • #318: Add add_installfiles api to target
  • #339: Improve add_requires and find_package to integrate the 3rd package manager
  • #327: Integrate with Conan package manager
  • Add the builtin api find_packages("pcre2", "zlib") to find multiple packages
  • #320: Add template configuration files and replace all variables before building
  • #179: Generate CMakelist.txt file for xmake project plugin
  • #361: Support vs2019 preview
  • #368: Support private, public, interface to improve dependency inheritance like cmake
  • #284: Add passing user configs description for package()
  • #319: Add add_headerfiles to improve to set header files and directories
  • #342: Add some builtin help functions for includes(), e.g. check_cfuncs

  Changes

  • Improve to switch version and debug mode for the dependent packages
  • #264: Support xmake update dev on windows
  • #293: Add xmake f/g --mingw=xxx configuration option and improve to find_mingw
  • #301: Improve precompiled header file
  • #322: Add option.add_features, option.add_cxxsnippets and option.add_csnippets
  • Remove some deprecated interfaces of xmake 1.x, e.g. add_option_xxx
  • #327: Support conan package manager for lib.detect.find_package
  • Improve lib.detect.find_package and add builtin find_packages("zlib 1.x", "openssl", {xxx = ...}) api
  • Mark set_modes() as deprecated, we use add_rules("mode.debug", "mode.release") instead of it
  • #353: Improve target:set, target:add and add target:del to modify target configuration
  • #356: Add qt_add_static_plugins() api to support static Qt sdk
  • #351: Support yasm for generating vs201x project
  • Improve the remote package manager.

  Bugs fixed

  • Fix cannot call set_optimize() to set optimization flags when exists add_rules("mode.release")
  • #289: Fix unarchive gzip file failed on windows
  • #296: Fix option.add_includedirs for cuda
  • #321: Fix find program bug with $PATH envirnoment
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• xmake v2.2.3, A lot of new features support

  2018-11-30

  xmake

  xmake  lua  C/C++  Package

  This version is mainly to improve the remote dependency package management, fix a lot of details, and this version can already support the upgrade from my upgrade through xmake update, it will be more convenient to upgrade xmake later.

  • Github
  • Documents

  New features

  • #233: Support windres for mingw platform
  • #239: Add cparser compiler support
  • Add plugin manager xmake plugin --help
  • Add add_syslinks api to add system libraries dependence
  • Add xmake l time xmake [--rebuild] to record compilation time
  • #250: Add xmake f --vs_sdkver=10.0.15063.0 to change windows sdk version
  • Add lib.luajit.ffi and lib.luajit.jit extension modules
  • #263: Add new target kind: object to only compile object files

  Changes

  • #229: Improve to select toolset for vcproj plugin
  • Improve compilation dependences
  • Support *.xz for extractor
  • #249: revise progress formatting to space-leading three digit percentages
  • #247: Add -D and --diagnosis instead of --backtrace
  • #259: Improve on_build, on_build_file and on_xxx for target and rule
  • #269: Clean up the temporary files at last 30 days
  • Improve remote package manager
  • Support to add packages with only header file
  • Support to modify builtin package links, e.g. add_packages("xxx", {links = {}})

  Bugs fixed

  • Fix state inconsistency after failed outage of installation dependency package
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• LTUI v1.1, A cross-platform terminal ui library based on Lua

  2018-11-28

  ltui

  ltui  curses  lua  xmake  ui

  Introduction

  LTUI is a cross-platform terminal ui library based on Lua.

  This framework originated from the requirements of graphical menu configuration in xmake. Similar to the linux kernel’s menuconf to configure the compilation parameters, so using curses and lua to implement a cross-platform character terminal ui library.

  Refer to kconfig-frontends for style rendering. Of course, users can customize different ui styles.

  

  Installation

  $ luarocks install ltui
  

  Build

  We need install the cross-platform build utility xmake first.

  $ xmake
  

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• xmake v2.2.2, We can also manage package dependencies for C/C++

  2018-10-13

  xmake

  xmake  lua  C/C++  Package

  Introduction

  Since my English is not very good, the article uses google translation, if you can’t understand, please understand.

  After more than four months, xmake finally updated the new version v2.2.2 and launched the heavyweight feature: Natively Supported Remote Dependency Package Management.

  This feature, in fact, I have been writing for almost a year, before the initial completion, for the development of this feature and history, interested students can look at the relevant issues: #69.

  The current implementation is as follows, a fully consistent semantic version dependency description:

  

  Fully consistent cross-platform build behavior, one-click xmake compilation:

  

  Complete project description:

  add_requires("tbox 1.6.*", "libpng ~1.16", "zlib")
  
  target("test")
      set_kind("binary")
      add_files("src/*.c")
      add_packages("tbox", "libpng", "zlib")
  

  Let me briefly introduce the background of my function:

  When we write C/C++ programs, the use of third-party dependencies has always been a big problem. Because each build library has different build systems and different code platform support, it can’t be like other high-level languages. Convenient and easy to use package management support.

  Although there are package management tools such as homebrew, vcpkg and so on to solve this problem, there are some limitations, such as:

  1. homebrew does not support iphoneos, android, windows platform
  2. vcpkg does not support semantic version selection, multi-version management
  3. Does not support project management and build

  For the existing cross-platform build tools, there is no built-in package management support. For example, cmake only provides find_package to find system packages. Although it can be used with third-party package management such as vcpkg, I personally feel that it is not very Convenience. This will make other users of the project need to install vcpkg or install the dependent library to the system when compiling. For the pc platform, it is better to use it. For the iphoneos, android and other platforms, the user will toss on the library. It will be a while.

  And xmake’s philosophy is: Consistent maintenance, One-click compilation

  • Consistency of build behavior: Regardless of whether your project has library dependencies or tool dependencies, you only need to execute a xmake command to compile.
  • Consistency of project maintenance: Regardless of whether your project is used on Windows or for Linux, iPhone, or Android, you only need a xmake.lua maintenance project.

  Cmake also needs to generate additional third-party IDE project files, even if cmakelist.txt is the same, but the build and maintenance experience is not guaranteed to be completely consistent for the user. After all, it is limited to such tools as vc/make.

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