ccdo [WIP]

Status

This project is still in early development, and not ready for any functional use.

Overview

ccdo, preferably stylized as "CCDo", aims to be a general-purpose, versatile, reliable, automated, and configurable centralized build system targeted for the C/C++ programming language toolchain.

Design Goals

The design vision for this system is to function to the end user in a very similar manner to that of the unified dotnet build system.

Hypothetical Usage:

# assume CWD, assume ccdo.xml
ccdo build
# or specify CWD, assume ccdo.xml
ccdo build ./
# or specify CWD, specify ccdo.xml
ccdo build ./ccdo.xml

Hypothetical Configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- ccdo.xml -->
<config>
    <defaults>
        <!-- Default selected build target's id -->
        <target>LinuxClang64</target>
    </defaults>
    <targets>
        <option>
            <!-- identifier of the target -->
            <id>LinuxClang64</id>
            <!-- x86-32, x86-64 (ARM TBD) -->                       
            <cpu>x86-64</cpu>
            <!-- linux, windows (others TBD) -->
            <host>linux</host>
            <!-- clang, gcc, maybe msvc (others TBD) -->
            <tool>clang</tool>
        </option>
    </targets>
    <files>
        <!-- Define which directory files should be put or be found in -->
        <src>./src</src>
        <bin>./bin</bin>
        <obj>./bin/obj</obj>
        <inc>./inc</inc>
        <lib>./lib</lib>
    </files>
    <!-- other options TBD, this revision is not final -->
</config>

Development

Timeline

There is no predictable timeline for the development of this project.

Contributions

This project aims to be open to community contributions. However, because the project is still nascent, all contributions will be rejected until there is reasonable community interest and a reliable contribution process can be established.