yuraaka/jb

Just Build tool -- frontend over CMake

Just Build system

Features

• Simple use: go to any folder in your repository and invoke jb build to build target
• No temporary files in repository -- only one symlink of built target in a project folder
• Can be run from any directory, even if it does not contain project file jb.yaml
• Simple minimalistic project file syntax (for static C++ libraries it's sufficient to empy file)
• C++

Repository constraints

• Any folder contains files from one project only
• No symlinks allowed
• Repository root folder contains empy .jb.root file

Requirements

• cmake
• dotnet

Supported OS

• MacOS (tested)
• Windows, Linux (untested)

How to use

1. Build jb-tool (from repo root dir):

dotnet build

2. Build exe2 sample using jb-tool

cd exe2
jb b

3. Run built sample

./exe2

4. Make your own projects...

Format

jb.yaml has following format:

name: <name-of-target>
type: exe | lib
deps:
  - path-to-target-from-repo-root-1
  - path-to-target-from-repo-root-2