Data::Hopen - A build generator with first-class edges and explicit dependencies

hopen is a cross-platform software build generator. It makes files you can pass to Make, Ninja, Visual Studio, or other build tools, to compile and link your software. hopen gives you:

• A full, Turing-complete, robust programming language to write your build scripts (specifically, Perl 5.14+)
• No hidden magic! All your data is visible and accessible in a build graph.
• Context-sensitivity. Your users can tweak their own builds for their own platforms without affecting your project.

See Data::Hopen::Conventions for details of the input format.

Why Perl? Because (1) you probably already have it installed, and (2) it is the original write-once, run-everywhere language!

INSTALLATION

Easiest: install cpanminus if you don't have it - see https://metacpan.org/pod/App::cpanminus#INSTALLATION. Then run cpanm Data::Hopen.

Manually: clone or untar into a working directory. Then, in that directory,

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test

(you may need to install dependencies as well - see https://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for resources). If all the tests pass,

make install

If some of the tests fail, please check the issues and file a new one if no one else has reported the problem yet.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Data::Hopen
perldoc hopen

You can also look for information at:

• GitHub (report bugs here)

  https://github.com/cxw42/hopen

• MetaCPAN

  https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Hopen

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Data-Hopen

• CPAN Ratings

  https://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Data-Hopen

INSPIRED BY

• Luke
• a bit of Ant
• a tiny bit of Buck
• my own frustrations working with CMake.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2018--2019 Christopher White, <cxwembedded at gmail.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA