Waf, previously known as BKsys is a framework based on python for configuring, compiling and installing applications.
It replaces the whole GNU autotool chain (automake, autoconf, aclocal, autoheader, libtool, make) and depends on Python only. Waf features several demos, including KDE3, Qt4 and OCaml sample applications.
After uncompressing the archive, run:
su -c "./waf.py install"
waf --prepare
cd demos/kde3/
waf configure; waf
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Here are some key features of "Waf":
· Fast rescan for incremental builds (developer working on the project)
· Coloured kernel-like output or progress bar (-v switch to display command-lines)
· Object-oriented target declaration
· Scripts as python modules
· XML script front-end to ease the interaction with integrated development environments
· A c/c++ preprocessor for computing dependencies
· Self-compiling and self-optimizing actions using a syntax similar to the one in scons
· Builddir set by default and with no effort, and now with build variants as well
· Modular configuration scheme with customizable command-line parsing
· Configuration variables are stored in an editable cache
· Real libtool emulation (turned off by default)
· No more hard-coded extensions like .so, .a or .exe
· Tight control over the scheduler (not all links at the end, etc)
· Daemon mode for background recompilation
· Find source files intelligently (glob-like) to ease script maintainance (all c-like classes)
· Support for objective caml and hybrid programs (kde3 program with a part written in caml)
· Support for gnome programs: c and mono (gtk#)
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· A new rule-based system has been added for declaring targets in a makefile-like system.
· Several minor bugs have been fixed to allow the compilation on more systems (OS X and Cygwin).
· New examples have been added to show how to use gcc for extracting dependencies (replacing the Waf preprocessor) or to use compilers to compile several files at once (batched builds).
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