BSDBuild is a compact, cross-platform build system which
follows the Principle of Least Astonishment.
Derived from the traditional 4.4BSD make libraries, BSDBuild allows
programs and libraries to be built portably using simple BSD-style
Makefiles (without BSD make extensions). BSDBuild works on most
operating systems and make flavors.
BSDBuild is implemented as a make library (i.e., Makefile includes
containing Bourne script fragments), so a project's Makefiles don't
need to be generated (unless building in a separate directory from source).
BSDBuild can generate Bourne configure scripts, foo-config
installation scripts, pkg-config .pc files, Libtool-style .la
files and platform-specific application/framework bundles.
BSDBuild-generated configure scripts look and function similar to
a standard GNU autotools script, although BSDBuild uses a different
configure.in language.
The base distribution currently includes over 100 built-in
Test Modules
for detecting and testing the compatibility of various software.
For users of IDEs and development environments where ./configure
and make cannot be used, <build.proj.mk> allows IDE
project files to be generated automatically for a variety of IDEs.
| mkconfigure |
Generate portable Bourne/POSIX ./configure scripts.
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| <build.man.mk> | Process mdoc manual page sources into ASCII, PostScript, PDF and HTML output. The included uman manreader can be used for searching and displaying uninstalled manual pages. |
| <build.lib.mk> | Compile static or shared libraries from sources in Ada, assembly, C, C++, Objective C, Lex or Yacc. |
| <build.prog.mk> | Compile programs from sources in Ada, assembly, C, C++, Objective C, Lex or Yacc. |
| <build.proj.mk> | Automatic generation of "project files" for IDEs such as Code::Blocks and Visual Studio. |
| <build.www.mk> | Compile HTML documents (and optionally language/character set variants) from sources using m4 and xsltproc. |
| 02/25/2023 | The Manual Page Reader and documentation have been updated. |
| 11/17/2022 | You can now join the LibAgar Discord to discuss the project. |
| 07/14/2015 |
07/14/2015 Released bsdbuild v3.1 (ChangeLog) |
| 04/23/2020 |
04/23/2020 Updated developer's public KEYS file. |
| 08/10/2012 |
08/10/2012 Released bsdbuild v3.0 (ChangeLog) |
