ccbuild: A strict developer's build utility

by A. Bram Neijt <bneijt@gmail.com>

See INSTALL for installation instructions.

Thank you for downloading ccbuild!

Documentation

All documentation can be found in the doc directory. If you want to hack ccbuild, don't forget to run doxygen first. You can also use the online versions of these documents via the homepage, most easily found using https://github.com/bneijt/ccbuild

Program usage

The program is meant to be run in the same directory as your main program resides. For ccbuild self, this is the src directory. The default behaviour of ccbuild is to find any sourcefile containing an int main function and start compiling it.

If the manual is not installed, use: man ./doc/debiandoc/ccbuild.1

see ccbuild -h for an overview of the possible options.

Directories

./src     The main source tree of ccbuild
./doc     Documentation
./tools   Currently contains only a one-liner to run dot on .dot files.
./test    A collection of class testing programs, not really usefull.

Examples of use

• Compile for debugging and development: ccbuild
• When recompiling for benchmark (force recompile, use -O3): ccbuild -f --args -O3
• Generate a Makefile for a friend developer, who hasn't got ccbuild: ccbuild makefile > Makefile
• Look at the dependencies for you program(s): ccbuild deps
• Graph the dependencies: ccbuild dot; dotty *.dot
• Clean up the generated .o files for all local programs: ccbuild clean
• Remove all .o files and .gch files, before making a backup or release: ccbuild distclean

DON'T DO THIS WHEN USING CCBUILD

These are very obvious, but just to overcome any problems that might occur.

The following is a list of things you shouldn't do when using ccbuild:

• Place important documents or sources in the directory called o. This directory will be removed without warning when calling ccbuild distclean.
• Don't mix extensions for files with the same basename. So don't place a file called "main.cc" in the same directory as "main.cpp" because the object files in the o directory won't be seperated.
• Don't expect any warrenty of any kind (read the license).

Hacking the code, possible start-up problems

ccbuild development requires ccbuild to generate basic build files for autotools. For source releases this has been done using bootstrap. If you do not have a ccbuild release working yet, you can use

make -f Makefile.ccbuild src/ccbuild

to build ccbuild using a generated Makefile.

Another option is using cmake which is used in the Travis-CI build.

• Flex scanner may need to be generated, use:

  rm src/sourceScanner/yylex.cc; make -f Makefile.human src/sourceScanner/yylex.cc

  Use this if the compiler complains about something with SourceScanner

• If the compiler complains about FFB::Process constructor called incorrectly, make sure you have libbobcat 2.02.03 or higher.