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Reggae-Ruby

A Ruby interface / front-end to the reggae meta-build system.

Installation

gem install reggae

The reason for a global install is that the reggae gem installs an executable script called reggae_json_build.rb that is needed by the reggae D binary.

Usage

This gem makes available a few classes and functions that allow the user to write build descriptions in Ruby. It is essentially the same API as the D version but in Ruby syntax. A simple C build could be written like this:

require 'reggae'
main_obj = Target.new('main.o', 'gcc -I$project/src -c $in -o $out', Target.new('src/main.c'))
maths_obj = Target.new('maths.o', 'gcc -c $in -o $out', Target.new('src/maths.c'))
app = Target.new('myapp', 'gcc -o $out $in', [main_obj, maths_obj])
bld = Build.new(app)

This should be contained in a file named reggaefile.rb in the project's root directory. Running the reggae D binary on that directory will produce a build with the requested backend (ninja, make, etc.)

Most builds will probably not resort to low-level primitives as above. A better way to describe that C build would be:

require 'reggae'
objs =  object_files(flags: '-I$project/src', src_dirs: ['src'])
app = link(exe_name='app', dependencies=objs)
bld = Build.new(app)

Please consult the reggae documentation for more details.