valet

An attempt on a simple, fast and easy to use C++ build system, inspired by Rust's Cargo.

Status

• Static library projects
• Dynamic library projects
• Statically linking against dynamic libraries
• Executable projects
• Prebuilt library dependencies (both static and dynamic)
• Test targets
• Benchmark targets
• Compilation stats
• Compilation cache
• Git repository support (partially done)
• Package manager & registry
• Parallel compilation
• Depend a package hosted on a git repository

Near Term TODOs

• Precompiled headers
• Avoid unnecessary copies during dependency resolution
• Try to bring down LOC
• Make it faster (doesn't even come close to 'fast' yet)
• Extensible toolchain (e.g. custom compilers and linkers)
• Install packages from git repositories

Things To Think About

• Daemon service compiling in the background when a file changed (to optimize iteration times)

Testing

Any package placed under a package's tests folder is a test target. A test target is just a normal package (type = "bin") that declares its own dependencies — typically a path dependency back to the package under test:

mylib/
  valet.toml            # type = "lib", public_includes = ["./include"]
  include/mylib.h
  src/mylib.cxx
  tests/
    mylib_tests/
      valet.toml        # type = "bin", depends on { path = "../.." }
      src/main.cxx

valet test builds and runs every test target, then prints a pass/fail summary. A test target passes when its binary exits with code 0, so any framework (or none) works. Run a subset with valet test <filter>, which keeps only targets whose name contains <filter>.

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