ccsimplebuild

A highly specific and rigid, but maximally simple and effective, build tool for C++. Automatically detects dependencies among .cc and .h files by scanning #includes, and recompiles only what is necessary. make without the Makefile, basically.

ccsimplebuild expects to be run in a directory full of .cc and .h files (must use those suffixes, not cpp/hpp/etc). ccsimplebuild will create a subdir named "obj/", where it will make a .o for every .cc file.

To use, you can either:

• Simply run ccsimplebuild in that directory. ccsimplebuild has default behavior that should work for simple projects. (See sample0).
• Run ccsimplebuild with a file named default.ccbuildfile existing in that same directory. See the sample directories for buildfile examples.
• Run ccsimplebuild mycustombuildfilename to load a buildfile named mycustombuildfilename, rather than default.ccbuildfile.

Suggested compilation and installation command: g++ -std=c++17 ccsimplebuild.cc -o ccsimplebuild -lstdc++fs && sudo cp ccsimplebuild /usr/local/bin/

build.sh

If you publish code meant to be built with ccsimplebuild, and don't want people to be turned off by an unfamiliar build tool, include build.sh: it correctly interprets the ccbuildfile format, so that ./build.sh works just as well as ccsimplebuild for a first time compilation. It politely points out that they can switch to ccsimplebuild for smoother recompilation.