Man this place is dead.

Wow premake is awesome :D

it's basically Cmake, but less complicated and equally powerful!

Can it generate visual studio project files?

@nwp yup

VisualStudio 2017, Xcode or GNU Make

github.com/premake/premake-core/wiki/What-Is-Premake

Nice. Maybe I should look into it.

it's pretty neat

I'm very unhappy with cmake.

to generate all vs files it took me 70ms

70

ms

That's completely irrelevant.

yeah. but If you think about it, cmake took a minute or so to do the same

@nwp I know though ahahah :D

What matters is that it gets dependencies between generated files correct. Cmake fails in that regard. I'd gladly add a couple of minutes to get a correct build system.

it's even more readable

workspace "Omge"
	architecture "x64"

	configurations
	{
		"Debug",
		"Release",
		"Distribution"
	}

fmt = "%{cfg.buildcfg}-%{cfg.system}-%{cfg.architecture}"

project "Core"
	location "Core"
	kind "SharedLib"
	language "C++"

	targetdir ("bin/" .. fmt .. "/%{prj.name}")
	objdir ("bin-int/" .. fmt .. "/%{prj.name}")

	files
	{
		"%{prj.name}/src/**.h",
		"%{prj.name}/src/**.cpp"
	}

	includedirs
	{
		"%{prj.name}/ext/spdlog/**.h"
	}

	filter "system:windows"
		cppdialect "C++17"
		staticruntime "On"

this is how I am using it

it's pretty straightforward!

The output explains why it doesn't compile.

It can't compile Constant because that requires compiling IntegerValue which requires compiling One which requires ....

Just move it down to fix it: godbolt.org/z/Q3JSC2

That's next level cpp for me

I've never used anything like that before..

I have done too much ::template stuff lately.

Fun fact: if you forget the template there clang crashes (sometimes).

:D

I should actually learn more about modern cpp too

@nwp the only thing that I hate about Premake is that errors suck

they look like template errors in cpp

@Tyyppi_77 never used it before.. I might actually look into it

@DukeZhou are you alive?