Q: What is a Build System?
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- AKA: Build Automation Software
- Script/automate compilation
Q: What is a Build System?
Q: Who has used a one?
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- AKA: Build Automation Software
- Script/automate compilation
- Everyone in 280 and beyond
Make, the Grandbinary of them all
- Automate compiling and linking
- Easily repeat long/complex commands
- Eliminate unnecessary work
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- Stuart Feldman, 1976, Bell Labs
- Replaced shell scripts commonly used
Make syntax
(in 2 lines or less)
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Make syntax
(in 2 lines or less)
target: dependencies rules6 / 14
- target: The thing we're trying to build
- dependencies: The thing(s) that must come before
- rules: The steps needed to build target once the dependencies are all here
Let's Makefile!
- Build a sentence
- Subject
- Verb
- Object
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Other build systems
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Other build systems
make-based
- GNU make
- nmake
- ...
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Other build systems
make-based
- GNU make
- nmake
- ...
Non-make/Proprietary
- Bazel (Google's tool)
- Buck (Facebook's tool)
- MSBuild (Microsoft's tool)
- xcodebuild (Apple's tool)
- ...
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Other build systems
make-based
- GNU make
- nmake
- ...
Non-make/Proprietary
- Bazel (Google's tool)
- Buck (Facebook's tool)
- MSBuild (Microsoft's tool)
- xcodebuild (Apple's tool)
- ...
Other languages for scripting and building
- Rake (ruby)
- Apache Ant (Java + XML)
- A-A-P (python)
- sbt (Scala)
- ...
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Why stop at compilation?
What else could we automate?
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Why stop at compilation?
What else could we automate?
- Build script generation
- Installation
- Testing
- Continuous Integration (CI)
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- make-based tools build well and then... bash
- proprietary tools integrate with or control IDEs
- CI tools use build systems, IDE aware, Notifications
Closing remarks
- New section!!
- Max points from Advanced Exercises in 3 or more sections
- Reminder: You must submit to staff at OH
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- 30 total AE points
- (10 + 2) + (10 + 2 + 2) + (10 + 2 + 2) + (5 + 2 + 2) = 49
- Missing AE in two sections = Max AE score of 28 points (6 AE)