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Premake 4.2.1 released

starkos — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:13:35 +0000

A bug in the new file pattern matching introduced in 4.2 has been causing people trouble, so here's an update to get it fixed.

Download 4.2.1 now

The final change log:* Feature 2944697: Add flag to disable Minimal Rebuild in Visual Studio
* Patch 2928029: Add EnableSSE, EnableSSE2 flags
* Patch 2936443: Expose configuration terms to scripts (Laurent Humbertclaude)
* Bug 2928775: Error loading external Lua module with require()
* Bug 2942438: Wrong runtime library linked
* Bug 2931722: pchheader handling not consistent between tools
* Bug 2958829: Files pattern matching including too many files
* Bug 2953594: includedirs / libdirs converting absolute paths to relative
* Bug 2936188: Improve handling for invalid values in lists

Enjoy!

Independence and Premake

starkos — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:42:27 +0000

As you might have noticed on the main site, I quit my job last week and will be making a go of it as an independent software shop.

In the short term, this doesn't help Premake any. By necessity, I am going to be focused on getting my shop online and building up income. In the long term, the news is much better. As it stands now, on a good week I can log 6-8 hours of nights and weekends work. That's not very much, and it gets split between Premake, the website, and all of the other little projects I've got going on. Once I roll off, that jumps to 40-plus hours and the opportunity to knock off big chunks of work at a time.

I'd like to assure everyone that, while it is not my immediate priority, I've put in a lot of hard work getting Premake where it is today and I don't intend to see it falter now. It is an integral part of my own projects. So I will be trying to, at the very least, get together enough bug fixes and apply enough patches for a series of 4.2.x releases. I have also started working on documentation to help people who would like to contribute get a jump start, so hopefully we'll see more feature patches coming in. And Visual Studio 2010 support is still top of my list for new features.

So: expect to see a drop-off while I do the ramp up work for the business. I will still be around to answer questions, and in the long run I will be around even more.

And if you ever considered donating to Premake, now would be a great time.

Premake 4.2 released!

starkos — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:25:10 +0000

At long last: 4.2! Many, many thanks to everyone who assisted by using the early releases, providing feedback, reporting bugs, and contributing patches. This release, and every release, is better because of your help.

Download 4.2 now

The final change log:

Feature 1526976: Add support for Apple Xcode 3
Feature 2900623: Add targetsuffix and implibsuffix properties
Feature 2839002: Add gcc switch to improve header dependency generation (Johannes Spohr)
Feature 2832906: Global variable (_SCRIPT) for current script path
Feature 2905303: Enable better folder matching in file lists
Feature 2919629: Add help target for makefiles
Feature 2820644: Add Xbox360 deployment and image options
Bug 2909463: Fix Xcode handling of Obj-C++ .mm files
Bug 2903430: Using relative instead of absolute paths with $() macro
Bug 2910691: Duplicate build options
Bug 2910639: Nil reference on dylib project dependency
Bug 2872066: Two test failures in 4.1.2
Bug 2912756: dylibs missing lib prefix
Bug 2910202: Code::Blocks building C files as C++
Bug 2926917: Use target name for Visual Studio PDB file
Bug 2927604: Unable to build Premake with Visual Studio
Added project kind to list of configuration filters
Clean action now removes MonoDevelop .pidb files correctly
added os.executef()

Enjoy!

Premake 4.2-rc1 released

starkos — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:05:59 +0000

A tertiary release in the 4.2 series, now feature complete!

Download 4.2-rc1 now

The changes so far:

Feature 1526976: Add support for Apple Xcode 3
Feature 2900623: Add targetsuffix and implibsuffix properties
Feature 2839002: Add gcc switch to improve header dependency generation (Johannes Spohr)
Feature 2832906: Global variable (_SCRIPT) for current script path
Feature 2905303: Enable better folder matching in file lists
Feature 2919629: Add help target for makefiles
Feature 2820644: Add Xbox360 deployment and image options
Bug 2909463: Fix Xcode handling of Obj-C++ .mm files
Bug 2903430: Using relative instead of absolute paths with $() macro
Bug 2910691: Duplicate build options
Bug 2910639: Nil reference on dylib project dependency
Bug 2872066: Two test failures in 4.1.2
Bug 2912756: dylibs missing lib prefix
Bug 2910202: Code::Blocks building C files as C++
Added project kind to list of configuration filters
Clean action now removes MonoDevelop .pidb files correctly
added os.executef()

Enjoy, and be sure to send in those bug reports!

Thanks everyone

starkos — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:36:14 +0000

A big thank you to everyone who participated in the Support an Open Source Developer campaign last week. Your generosity is very much appreciated, and will be put to good use. Thank you all again for a great 2009, and here's hoping for an even better 2010!

Again, many thanks!

Support an Open Source Developer — December 2009

starkos — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:35:18 +0000

The end of the year is coming up fast, and what a year it's been! From the new syntax introduced in 4.0 last February, to the platform features added in 4.1 over the summer, and now the spiffy new Xcode action. Not to mention all the other features and fixes!

If you've found Premake to be valuable to you this year, please consider throwing some change in the hat. I'll use the funds to keep the site running, and toward purchasing Visual Studio 2010 next year (and adding it to Premake, of course). If there is anything left over, well then I'll raise a glass at our favorite pub to you, the fine (and good looking!) Premake community.

The suggested donation is $5. Payments are handled through PayPal, but you don't need an account if you use a credit card. I never see your card details.

Whether you donate or not, I thank you all deeply and sincerely for being a part of the Premake community and helping make this the best year yet. Here's to an even better 2010!

The full change log for the year:

4.2 (in progress)

Feature 1526976: Add support for Apple Xcode 3
Feature 2900623: Add targetsuffix and implibsuffix properties
Added project kind to list of configuration filters
Clean action now removes MonoDevelop .pidb files correctly
Added os.executef()
Bug 2909463: Fix Xcode handling of Obj-C++ .mm files
Bug 2903430: Using relative instead of absolute paths with $() macro
Bug 2910691: Duplicate build options
Bug 2910639: Nil reference on dylib project dependency
Bug 2872066: Two test failures in 4.1.2

4.1.2

Fixed ManagedExtension setting for Visual Studio
Fixed os.match() bug for large result sets (David Raulo)
Patch 2840052: Order problem of static link
Patch 2802722: Floating Point Model Flags (Suigintou)
Patch 2865333: Support for ObjC and ObjC++ sources (Johannes Spohr)
Patch 2832852: Fix descriptions in cmd help (Sebastian Schuberth)
Patch 2832848: Show default script name in help (Sebastian Schuberth)

4.1.1

Use libtool instead of ar for Mac OS X Universal static libraries
Fixed Xbox 360 linker settings in Visual Studio
Remove platform-specific intermediate objects on clean
Bug 2819232: Buildoptions not used when creating Makefile for C#
Bug 2813297: OS X universal config should be "univ" (William Burnson)
Bug 2814179: Xbox 360 precompiled headers not working

4.1

Added support for cross-compiling target platforms
Added Xbox 360 support to Visual Studio 2005/2008
Added Mac OS X universal binary support
Added Playstation 3 support
Added precompiled header support for GCC
Support links and libdirs for Visual Studio static libraries
Fail gracefully when list is assigned to string field
Changed GCC flags to -fno-exceptions and -fno-rtti
Improved performance of configuration building step
Fixed crash when configuration is missing a kind
Patch 2031626: Support for additional manifest files (Colin Graf)
Patch 2558089: workaround for --as-needed/correct link order (idl0r)
Patch 2609028: verbose linking in makefile (kaidokert)
Bug 2564404: FatalWarnings has no effect with gmake target
Bug 2550759: pchheader option has wrong type
Bug 1900333: Parentheses in build path
Bug 2790865: SharedLib on OSX fixes (Ash Berlin)
Bug 2790882: Trailing slash in path.getabsolute (Ash Berlin)
Bug 2805763: GCC PCH breaks on path
Bug 2709641: Location field does not propagate to projects
Bug 2675518: Dependencies wrong on config links
Bug 2152526: Code::Blocks doesn't build PCH correctly on GCC
Removed additional MonoDevelop files in clean action
Fixed naming of system libraries in Visual Studio link step
Set OS to Windows when generating for Visual Studio
Bug 2801257: Linker error LNK1112 when cross-compiling for x64

4.0

A new, more readable and extensible syntax for projects
More robust syntax validation
A new command-line format, with better argument validation
Improved path handling across all project settings
Upgraded to Lua 5.1.4
Many, many bug fixes
Set Mac OS X linker flags for Code::Blocks
Bug 2533504: Files above project root not added to project
Embed scripts instead of bytecodes to avoid portability issues
solution() and project() now only set the active object when called with a name; remains unchanged otherwise
Bug: GCC Windows release builds of Premake4 crash on script errors
Patched Lua to load precompiled bytecodes on PPC architectures.
Display paths of generated files
Enabled use of absolute Windows paths to different drive letter
Bug: Post-build commands run before build on Code::Blocks
Removed FatalWarnings build flag
Fixed GCC 4.2 warnings (Ryan Pusztai)
Enable Windows linking to shared libraries even with NoImportLib flag set (just in case)
Fixed handling of paths in links
Added "ToolsVersion" attribute to VS2005 and VS2008 C# projects
Fixed separator between library dependencies in C++ makefiles
Added missing os.copyfile() function
Bug: Sometimes takes a long time to complete on Linux
Enabled Lua popen support on Linux and Mac OS X

Once again, thank you!

Premake 4.2 beta 2 released

starkos — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:06:23 +0000

Second in a series, chock full of bug fixing goodness!

Get 4.2-beta2 from SourceForge

Special thanks to Johannes, Liam, Ash, Ryan, and the all the others who submitted bug reports and feedback. Much appreciated!

The changes so far:

* Feature 1526976: Add support for Apple Xcode 3
* clean now removes MonoDevelop .pidb files correctly
* added os.executef()
* Added project kind to list of configuration filters
* Bug 2909463: Fix Xcode handling of Obj-C++ .mm files
* Bug 2903430: Using relative instead of absolute paths with $() macro
* Bug 2910691: Duplicate build options
* Bug 2910639: Nil reference on dylib project dependency
* Bug 2872066: Two test failures in 4.1.2

Enjoy, and be sure to send in those bug reports!

Premake 4.2 Beta 1 released

starkos — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:19:13 +0000

After a long slog, we're finally ready to begin the countdown to the 4.2 release. Whew!

Get 4.2-beta1 from SourceForge

The big news is the freshly minted support for Apple's Xcode IDE. This was a complicated one, so give it a good beating and help shake the bugs out. And while you're doing that, I'll be squeezing in a few more small features, applying your patches, and generally cleaning things up. I'm hoping to get to a release candidate before the end of the year.

The changes so far:

Feature 1526976: Add support for Apple Xcode 3
clean now removes MonoDevelop .pidb files correctly
added os.executef()

Enjoy, and be sure to send in those bug reports!

Premake 4.1.2 Released

starkos — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:13:29 +0000

Premake 4.1.2 is now released and available for download! This release includes...

Fixed ManagedExtension setting for Visual Studio (managed C++ code will now build properly)
Fixed os.match() bug for large result sets (David Raulo)
Patch 2840052: Order problem of static link (fixes linking to static libraries in GNU makefiles)
Patch 2802722: Add floating point model flags FloatFast and FloatStrict (Suigintou)
Patch 2865333: Support for ObjC and ObjC++ sources (Johannes Spohr)
Bug 2814179: Xbox 360 precompiled headers not working

Enjoy!

Premake 4.1.1 Released

starkos — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:33:43 +0000

Premake 4.1.1 is now released and available for download! This release includes important fixes for the Xbox 360 and Mac OS X Universal binary support which introduced in version 4.1.

The full change log:

Use libtool instead of ar for Mac OS X Universal static libraries
Fixed Xbox 360 linker settings in Visual Studio
Remove platform-specific intermediate objects on clean
Bug 2819232: Buildoptions not used when creating Makefile for C#
Bug 2813297: OS X universal config should be "univ" (William Burnson)
Bug 2814179: Xbox 360 precompiled headers not working