KalaMake is a multithreaded CLI for building libraries and executables with .kmake files and it is intended to use as a replacement for other build scripts and generators like Make, Premake, CMake or Ninja. KalaMake automatically uses all available threads from your CPU to always help speed up compilation, or you can fill the jobs field with your desired job count, multithreading is not supported by all languages.
KalaMake currently accepts several commands, most of which come from KalaCLI which is statically linked to KalaMake. Type --help to list all available commands and type --info commandnamehere to list info about that command.
This project relies on several external dependencies, they are not shipped inside this project, please make sure you have that repository cloned into a folder inside the same parent directory as this project folder before compiling this project from source.
To compile Kalamake on Windows without Kalamake:
//create the root build dir
mkdir build
//create the target binary dir
mkdir build\release-windows
//create the object dir
mkdir build\release-windows\obj
//go to the target binary dir
cd build\release-windows
//compile cpp files
for /r "..\..\src" %f in (*.cpp) do clang++ -DLIB_STATIC -std=c++20 -c "%f" -I"..\..\include" -I"..\..\..\external-shared\KalaHeaders\include" -I"..\..\..\external-shared\KalaCLI\include" -o "obj\%~nf.obj"
//link into executable
clang++ -o kalamake.exe "obj\*.obj" "..\..\..\external-shared\KalaCLI\release\kalacli.lib"
And on Linux:
//create the root build dir
mkdir build
//create the target binary dir
mkdir build\release-linux
//create the object dir
mkdir build\release-linux\obj
//go to the target binary dir
cd build\release-linux
//compile cpp files
for f in ../../src/**/*.cpp
clang++ -DLIB_STATIC -std=c++20 -c "$f" -I"../../include" -I../../../external-shared/KalaHeaders/include -I"../../../external-shared/KalaCLI/include" -o obj/(basename $f .cpp).o
end
//link into executable
clang++ -o kalamake obj/*.o ../../../external-shared/KalaCLI/release/libkalacli.a
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Currently only Windows (x86_64) and Linux (x86_64) are supported. There are no plans to support BSD, mobile, console, ARM, x86 or macOS.