Premake is an open-source software development utility for automatically building configuration from source code.

Features

Some of Premake's features are:^[3]

• It supports the C, C++, and C# programming languages.
• Its syntax is simple.
• It can generate automatic build files for Visual Studio, GNU Make, Xcode, Code::Blocks, CodeLite, SharpDevelop, and MonoDevelop.
• Using just one configuration set of files, different systems^{[clarification needed]} can be built.

Sample script

The following is an example Premake script for a simple software project.

solution "MySolution"
  configurations { "Debug", "Release" }

project "MyProject"
  kind "ConsoleApp"
  language "C++"
  includedirs { "include" }
  files { "src/**.h", "src/**.cpp" }

  configuration "Debug"
    symbols "On"
    defines { "_DEBUG" }

  configuration "Release"
    flags { "Optimize" }
    defines { "NDEBUG" }

Notable uses

Projects that use Premake include:^[4]

• 0 A.D.^[4]
• Box2D^[4]
• Bullet^[5]
• GpuCV^[6]
• Open Dynamics Engine^[7]
• OpenJAUS^[8]
• VDrift^[4]