A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
Modern C/C++ build tool: Simple, Fast, Powerful dependency package integration
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Introduction (中文)
What is Xmake?
- Xmake is a cross-platform build utility based on the Lua scripting language.
- Xmake is very lightweight and has no dependencies outside of the standard library.
- Uses the
xmake.lua
file to maintain project builds with a simple and readable syntax.
Xmake can be used to directly build source code (like with Make or Ninja), or it can generate project source files like CMake or Meson. It also has a built-in package management system to help users integrate C/C++ dependencies.
Xmake = Build backend + Project Generator + Package Manager + [Remote|Distributed] Build + Cache
Although less precise, one can still understand Xmake in the following way:
Xmake ≈ Make/Ninja + CMake/Meson + Vcpkg/Conan + distcc + ccache/sccache
If you want to know more, please refer to: the Documentation, GitHub or Gitee. You are also welcome to join our community.
The official Xmake repository can be found at xmake-io/xmake-repo.
curl -fsSL https://xmake.io/shget.text | bash
wget https://xmake.io/shget.text -O - | bash
Invoke-Expression (Invoke-Webrequest 'https://xmake.io/psget.text' -UseBasicParsing).Content
If you don't want to use the above scripts to install Xmake, visit the Installation Guide for other installation methods (building from source, package managers, etc.).
target("console")
set_kind("binary")
add_files("src/*.c")
Creates a new target console
of kind binary
, and adds all the files ending in .c
in the src
directory.
add_requires("tbox 1.6.*", "zlib", "libpng ~1.6")
Adds a requirement of tbox v1.6, zlib (any version), and libpng v1.6.
The official xmake package repository exists at: xmake-repo
The below assumes you are currently in the project's root directory.
$ xmake
$ xmake run console
$ xmake run -d console
$ xmake f -p [windows|linux|macosx|android|iphoneos ..] -a [x86|arm64 ..] -m [debug|release]
$ xmake
$ xmake f --menu
- Windows (x86, x64)
- macOS (i386, x86_64, arm64)
- Linux (i386, x86_64, cross-toolchains ..)
- *BSD (i386, x86_64)
- Android (x86, x86_64, armeabi, armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a)
- iOS (armv7, armv7s, arm64, i386, x86_64)
- WatchOS (armv7k, i386)
- AppleTVOS (armv7, arm64, i386, x86_64)
- MSYS (i386, x86_64)
- MinGW (i386, x86_64, arm, arm64)
- Cygwin (i386, x86_64)
- Wasm (wasm32)
- Cross (cross-toolchains ..)
- Xcode
- MSVC (Microsoft Visual C compiler)
- Android NDK
- Zig
- Go(lang)
- Swift
- Nim
- Rust
- GCC (GNU Compiler Collection)
- Clang
- TinyCC
- icc (Intel C Compiler)
- icpc (Intel C++ Compiler)
- icx (Intel LLVM C/C++ Compiler)
- Clang-CL (Clang Compatability with MSVC)
- DPC++ (Intel LLVM C++ Compiler using SYCL)
- MinGW (GNU for Windows)
- C51 (Keil C Compiler for the 8051)
- GNU-RM (GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain)
- ArmCC (Keil C Compiler for Keil MKD Version 5)
- Circle (New C++20 compiler)
- WASI (C/C++ WebAssembly Toolchain)
- ArmClang (Version 6 of the Keil MDK)
- SDCC (Small Device C Compiler)
- GDC (GNU D Compiler)
- LDC (LLVM D Compiler)
- DMD (Dlang)
- FPC (Free Pascal Programming Language Compiler)
- GFortran (GNU Fortran Compiler)
- Ifort (Intel Fortran Compiler)
- CUDA (nvcc, nvc, nvc++, nvfortran)
- Emscripten
- LLVM
- Icarus Verilog
- Verilator (SystemVerilog simulator and lint system)
- FASM
- NASM
- YASM
- MASM32 (Microsoft Macro Assembler 32-bit SDK)
- C and C++
- Objective-C and Objective-C++
- Swift
- Assembly
- Golang
- Rust
- Dlang
- Fortran
- Cuda
- Zig
- Vala
- Pascal
- Nim
- Verilog
- FASM
- NASM
- YASM
- MASM32
Xmake exhibits:
- Simple yet flexible configuration grammar.
- Quick, dependency-free installation.
- Easy compilation for most all supported platforms.
- Supports cross-compilation with intelligent analysis of cross toolchain information.
- Extremely fast parallel compilation support.
- Supports C++ modules (new in C++20).
- Supports cross-platform C/C++ dependencies with built-in package manager.
- Multi-language compilation support including mixed-language projects.
- Rich plug-in support with various project generators (ex. Visual Studio/Makefiles/CMake/
compile_commands.json
) - REPL interactive execution support
- Incremental compilation support with automatic analysis of header files
- Built-in toolchain management
- A large number of expansion modules
- Remote compilation support
- Distributed compilation support
- Local and remote build cache support
Xmake supports the below types of projects:
- Static libraries
- Shared libraries
- Console/CLI applications
- CUDA programs
- Qt applications
- WDK drivers (umdf/kmdf/wdm)
- WinSDK applications
- MFC applications
- Darwin applications (with metal support)
- Frameworks and bundles (in Darwin)
- SWIG modules (Lua, Python, ...)
- LuaRocks modules
- Protobuf programs
- Lex/Yacc programs
- Linux kernel modules
Xmake can automatically fetch and install dependencies!
- Official package repository xmake-repo (tbox >1.6.1)
- Official package manager Xrepo
- User-built repositories
- Conan (conan::openssl/1.1.1g)
- Conda (conda::libpng 1.3.67)
- Vcpkg (vcpkg:ffmpeg)
- Homebrew/Linuxbrew (brew::pcre2/libpcre2-8)
- Pacman on archlinux/msys2 (pacman::libcurl)
- Apt on ubuntu/debian (apt::zlib1g-dev)
- Clib (clib::clibs/bytes@0.0.4)
- Dub (dub::log 0.4.3)
- Portage on Gentoo/Linux (portage::libhandy)
- Nimble for nimlang (nimble::zip >1.3)
- Cargo for rust (cargo::base64 0.13.0)
- Zypper on openSUSE (zypper::libsfml2 2.5)
- The official repository provides nearly 500+ packages with simple compilation on all supported platforms
- Full platform package support, support for cross-compiled dependent packages
- Support package virtual environment using
xrepo env shell
- Precompiled package acceleration for Windows (NT)
- Support self-built package repositories and private repository deployment
- Third-party package repository support for repositories such as: vcpkg, conan, conda, etc.
- Supports automatic pulling of remote toolchains
- Supports dependency version locking