- (verb, transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
Erect is a build system aimed at building speciality (e.g. embedded) software.
Design goals include:
- Support for C++20 modules.
- Type annotations and docstrings to help editors help you write blueprints.
- Embeddability (create tasks and run the dependency engine from within another python application).
- Basic functionality is in place.
- The API is not considered stable yet.
- Error handling and path handling needs to be improved.
- Documentation and tests are not written yet.
Erect will look for a file named blueprint.py, whose contents might look like so:
from erect import Env
env = Env()
env.executable('hello', ['main.cpp'])When you run erect, this file will be loaded, which creates a build environment and the tasks necessary to build an executable from main.cpp.
All build artifacts will go into the environment's build directory which defaults to build/, so the resulting executable will be build/hello.
After the blueprint is done, Erect will execute the created tasks in dependency order.