Ember

A simple, header-only build system for C, written in C.

🚧 Work in Progress: Currently, Ember only supports the Clang compiler on Linux. Stay tuned for further updates.

Installation

Include build.h and the ember executable in your project's root folder.

Usage

#define BUILD_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "build.h"

int main() {
    Builder *builder = init_builder();
    Executable *exe = init_executable("main", "main.c", OPTIMIZATION_NONE);
    builder->add_executable(builder, exe);
    builder->add_source(builder, "math.c");
    Library *library = init_library("test", "test", true);
    builder->generate_library(builder, library);
    builder->link_library(builder, library);
    builder->add_system_library(builder, "vulkan");
    builder->install(builder);
    free_library(library);
    free_executable(exe);
    free_builder(builder);
    return 0;
}

Build

To build the project, run:

./ember build

Run

To run your project, execute:

./ember run

Features

These are the long-term goals of this build system. If you’d like to contribute, you can fork the repository, make changes, and submit a pull request (PR).

• Compilation
• Linking System libraries
• Generating shared libraries from source (.c) and header (.h) files
• Linking shared libraries
• Support for GCC and other compilers
• Compiler Optimizations
• Portability(Windows, Mac)
• Dependency management
• Parallel compilation
• External packages from network
• Emitting Assembly directly
• Emitting LLVM IR
• Emitting Assembly for different archs