v0.7.1

bfg9000 v0.7.1 has been released! It's available on PyPI.

Changes

• When using the PKG_CONFIG_PATH specified by mopack, add it to any existing PKG_CONFIG_PATH from the environment
• Don't explicitly include default #include paths on CC-like compilers

v0.7.0

bfg9000 v0.7.0 has been released! It's available on PyPI.

Highlighted changes

• Qt dependencies are now specified via package('Qt', '<component>') rather than package('Qt<component>')
• bfg9000 no longer automatically installs patchelf on Linux systems
• Add support for resolving external package dependencies via mopack
• Add bfg9000 run command to allow executing other commands using the environment variables for a given build
• Add support for installing man pages
• Create compile_commands.json when generating build scripts
• pkg-config executable can now be found by guessing based on other compilers
• Add bfg9000 generate-completion to generate shell-completion functions
• Add support for CLICOLOR and CLICOLOR_FORCE environment variables to control whether to display colors in terminal output

v0.6.0

bfg9000 v0.6.0 has been released! It's available on PyPI as well as an Ubuntu PPA: ppa:jimporter/stable.

Highlighted changes

• Drop support for Python 2
• Add support for including multiple build.bfg (and options.bfg) files from subdirectories via submodule()
• find_files() and find_paths() have been redesigned to support recursive globs
• The default list of excluded globs for find_files() can now be customized via project(find_exclude=[...])
• pkg_config() now defaults to auto_fill=False
• Link steps (executable, library, etc) now accept an extra_compile_deps argument to forward on to the compilation step
• generated_source() steps are now automatically created as necessary for files passed to object_file(), if possible
• Try to find the right compiler to use for C-family languages by guessing based on other compilers in the family (e.g. if CXX=g++, guess that the C compiler is gcc)
• Paths with a trailing / are now treated as directory paths, and when passed to auto_file() will create a directory object
• Add support for compiling Windows .rc files
• Allow customizing install locations for specific files via the directory argument

For a full list of the changes made to this release, see the changelog.

v0.5.1

bfg9000 v0.5.1 has been released! It's available on PyPI as well as an Ubuntu PPA: ppa:jimporter/stable.

Bug fixes

• Depfiles generated by compile steps are now properly included into Makefiles
• Include directories passed to via include and libraries passed via libs are now listed before those from packages when building
• Fixed linking to shared libraries located in the source directory

v0.5.0

bfg9000 v0.5.0 has been released! It's available on PyPI as well as an Ubuntu PPA: ppa:jimporter/stable.

Highlighted changes

• Add generated_source() to allow generating source code from domain-specific languages
• Add support for lex, yacc, and Qt build tools (moc, rcc, uic)
• Add the ability to use placeholders for build_step() and command()
• Add an auto_file() function that infers the kind of file based on its extension; build_step() now uses this by default for outputs
• Add copy_file() and copy_files() functions
• Add safe_str() and safe_format() to help safely build command string
• Expose Path object to bfg scripts
• find_files() redesigned and split into find_files() and find_paths(); simple cases should still work, but more complex uses will need adjusted
• Implicitly-defined object files (e.g. those generated by executable()) are placed in an intermediate directory; call project(intermediate_dirs=False) to disable this

For a full list of the changes made to this release, see the changelog.

v0.4.1

bfg9000 v0.4.1 has been released! It's available on PyPI as well as an Ubuntu PPA: ppa:jimporter/stable.

Changes

• Fix using semantic options in global_options

For a full list of the changes made to this release, see the changelog.

v0.4.0

bfg9000 v0.4.0 has been released! It's available on PyPI as well as an Ubuntu PPA: ppa:jimporter/stable.

Highlighted changes

• Compilers and linkers now support semantic options, abstracting away the differences between compiler flavors
• Add support for cross-compilation
• Toolchain files can be used to simplify setting up build configuration options
• Add info, warn, and debug builtins to let build scripts print messages via bfg's logging system
• Add support for module-definition files when linking .exe or .dll files
• Build steps now have a (customizable) friendly description when using the Ninja backend
• Makefiles generated by bfg now have a clean target
• env.platform has been split into env.host_platform and env.target_platform
• Platform names are reworked; 'windows' is now 'winnt' and 'darwin' is 'macos'

For a full list of the changes made to this release, see the changelog.

v0.3.1

bfg9000 v0.3.1 has been released! It's available on PyPI as well as an Ubuntu PPA: ppa:jimporter/stable.

Changes

• Fix an issue with creating the build directory during the configuration process

For a full list of the changes made to this release, see the changelog.

v0.3.0

bfg9000 v0.3.0 has been released! It's available on PyPI as well as an Ubuntu PPA: ppa:jimporter/stable.

Highlighted Changes

• Replace system_package() and pkgconfig_package() with a generic package resolver: package()
• Add headers argument to package() to find header files and libs to specify library names if pkg-config lookup fails
• Support Java/Scala
• Add support for user-defined arguments
• Add a library() function that builds shared and/or static libraries per the user's preference
• Add support for generating pkg-config .pc files
• Add a framework() function to specify macOS frameworks to use for a build
• Automatically request sudo elevation when installing builds to a system directory

For a full list of the changes made to this release, see the changelog.

v0.2.0

bfg9000 v0.2.0 has been released! It's available on PyPI as well as an Ubuntu PPA: ppa:jimporter/stable

Highlighted Changes

• Support Objective C/C++
• Warn users if necessary build tools can't be found by bfg9000
• Support versioning of shared libraries on POSIX systems
• Support resolving packages via pkg-config
• Locally-built static libraries now forward their options to binaries that link
  to them
• Add support for building a distribution of the sources (make dist)
• Allow running custom build steps via build_step()

For a full list of the changes made to this release, see the changelog.