mrbuild
Simple build system (by dkogan)
ocaml
OCaml "reentrant runtime" experimental branch (by lucasaiu)
| mrbuild | ocaml | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 5 | 27 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.4 | - | |
| about 1 month ago | over 10 years ago | |
| Makefile | OCaml | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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mrbuild
Posts with mentions or reviews of mrbuild.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
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Cmkr – a modern build system based on CMake and TOML
2. Write a tiny build system with Make or use any of the precanned ones. I use this: https://github.com/dkogan/mrbuild/ but there are many others
In any case, learning how to actually use Make is a prerequisite to having an opinion here.
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Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
I think Make is exactly what you want, and I do recommend it to everybody, since the default alternative is usually something heinous like CMake which isn't really an improvement. You want the bit of logic to create a "build system" out of Make abstracted into a library, and then it's perfect. I use this: https://github.com/dkogan/mrbuild/ but there're many other ways to do it
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Makefile Tutorial
Make is a language for making build systems. CMake is a build system that uses Make written by people who haven't read the manual. Anybody touching build systems at all needs to do themselves a huge favor: read the GNU Make manual to be able to write a Makefile to support a small project. This isn't difficult, and gives you wonderful perspective about what build systems are great and which aren't. CMake is good if you need to support many different unixes and xcode and visual studio. If you don't, then cmake gives you lots of pain for no benefit.
Make is simple and good-enough for most cases. I use this: https://github.com/dkogan/mrbuild
But it's not special and there are lots like it. And they are all infinitely better than cmake
ocaml
Posts with mentions or reviews of ocaml.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
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Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
Anything that has to run on a BSD or a Mac needs these tools
Do QEMU, tcc, and OCaml run on BSD and Mac? Pretty sure they do
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39925033
https://github.com/lucasaiu/ocaml/blob/master/configure
They have hand-written configure scripts, and don't use autoconf.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mrbuild and ocaml you can also consider the following projects:
meson - The Meson Build System
just - 🤖 Just a command runner
plan9port - Plan 9 from User Space