Rant is a flexible build tool written entirely in Ruby,
similar to Rake.
== What's new in this release?
* Automatic cleanup of generated files
* Directed rules
* Constraining variables
* rant-import searches $LOAD_PATH
* Immediately build targets from Rantfiles
I'd appreciate suggestions about new features, names, etc.
== Installing Rant
You can install Rant as a RubyGem:
% gem install --remote rant
or download the package from RubyForge(http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=615)
and install with install.rb:
% ruby install.rb
== More about Rant
The equivalent to a Makefile for make is the Rantfile. An
Rantfile is actually a valid Ruby script that is read by the
rant command.
Rant currently features:
* Defining custom tasks
* Automated packaging, testing and RDoc generation for Ruby
applications and libraries.
* Primitive support for compiling C# sources portably with csc, cscc
and mcs.
* Multiple buildfiles (e.g. one per directory).
* A configure plugin for easy environment and build-parameter
checking (but not like autoconf!) which saves data in a yaml file.
* The rant-import command creates a monolithic rant script,
so you don't depend on an rant installation anymore.
The following Rantfile solves the problem posted by Mark Probert.
Consider the following structure:
Rantfile
foo
src_a/
a_1.c
a_2.c
src_b/
b_1.c
b_2.c
obj/
a_1.o
a_2.o
b_1.o
b_2.o
The Rantfile could look like:
import %w(directedrule autoclean)
desc "Build foo."
file :foo => "obj/libfoo.a" do |t|
sys "cc -o #{t.name} #{t.source}"
end
gen Directory, "obj"
ro = gen DirectedRule, "obj" => sys["src_*"], :o => :c do |t|
rac.build "obj"
sys "cc -c -o #{t.name} #{t.source}"
end
file "obj/libfoo.a" => ro.candidates do |t|
sys "ar cr #{t.name} #{t.prerequisites.arglist}"
sys "ranlib #{t.name}"
end
desc "Cleanup."
gen AutoClean, :clean
Running rant:
% rant --tasks
rant foo # Build foo.
rant clean # Cleanup.
% rant
mkdir obj
cc -c -o obj/a_1.o src_a/a_1.c
cc -c -o obj/a_2.o src_a/a_2.c
cc -c -o obj/b_1.o src_b/b_1.c
ar cr obj/libfoo.a obj/a_1.o obj/a_2.o obj/b_1.o
ranlib obj/libfoo.a
cc -o foo obj/libfoo.a
% rant clean
rm -rf obj
rm -f foo
== Resources
Current docs:: http://make.rubyforge.org
Rubyforge page:: http://rubyforge.org/projects/make/
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Stefan