Embedthis MakeMe™ Features

MakeMe has the following major features:

• Configuration and component discovery (replaces autoconf)
• Compiler capability sleuthing
• Generation of a configuration source header (me.h)
• Generation of Xcode, Visual Studio, Make and Nmake projects
• Automatic C/C++ source code dependencies
• Cross platform project definition. Easily handles Windows, Linux and Mac builds.
• Cross-compilation support
• Building outside source tree for read-only file systems
• MakeMe files are Javascript and are easily modified and extended
• Multiple build profiles (debug, release, ...)
• Very fast configuration and build, even on windows
• Open extensible architecture via plugins
• Open Source

Nice Bits

While MakeMe has a strong feature set, there are some characteristics that make building with MakeMe especially nice:

• Unified project view, no "make" style recursion required
• MakeMe configuration may be comprised of multiple MakeMe configuration files
• MakeMe file targets and scripts are relative to their own directory
• Targets can be named symbolically not just by the target path.
• MakeMe provides a "why" option (me --why) to display why a target was or was not rebuilt
• MakeMe files and targets intelligently inherit outer project properties
• MakeMe DOM exposes the entire project definition as a mutable Javascript object