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Galina Thurby
I created a basic 4.x premake script to compile all of the dependencies and main source code for OSX, but now people are asking for build configurations for Linux, BSD and Windows. I have the code to do this and I want to create premake configurations to build and run Node9 on these OSs. I'll need to set library and include search paths, compiler names, as well as per-platform defines.
When you invoke premake gmake you just tell premake to build a makefile for gmake. If you have gmake on Windows, MacOS and Linux, you can use premake gmake for all platforms. It's when you actually build that you just need to specify your configuration and platform. I don't know gmake well enough, but that might look something like this: gmake config=release platform=linux32
This is pretty close. I think a slightly closer answer would be to use filter on the "system:". I think it's the difference between using premake to generate a multiplatform make and using it to build the current platform makefile.
I don't want to rely on Xcode, and instead want any developer to be able to build on Mac using either Xcode or gmake. I have a non-standard framework that I want to link to and include in the repository (it won't be located in /Library/Frameworks or any of the default mac framework search paths). I've added the framework file in a directory in my project /lib/TheFramework.framework. My premake file contains the following under the project definition:
Just keep in mind that, because premake doesn't process or check the build/link options for being valid, a user will receive an error if the provided path doesn't exist on their machine. For example while you might have a framework in your user-specific directory /Library/Frameworks, since that folder doesn't exist by default another user might be using the global /Library/Frameworks instead, and when they try to compile your premake project with gmake they will get a warning:
The premake command generates the solutions that will be used by the build command to build your plug-in. The default Premake configuration file generated by the new command works out of the box, however, further modifications will be needed to work on your plug-in. The generated solutions should not be modified directly as calling the premake command again will overwrite all changes to these files. Instead, modify the Premake configuration file. This configuration file is located at the root of your plug-in and is named PremakePlugin.lua.
Once the plug-in project has been created, other commands, such as premake, must be called from within the project folder. Here is how to generate the solutions for Authoring on the current operating system:
With these questions burning, Lee set out to create his "Transformers" premake using hundreds of filming location videos ripped from YouTube, official studio trailers and promotional materials along with his own gonzo footage from the movie's Chicago shoots. But unlike Michael Bay's epic, the video's genre is not sci-fi fantasy but Desktop Documentary. The entire film takes place on Lee's MacBook Pro screen. "Desktop documentary is an emerging form of filmmaking," Lee writes, "developed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago by faculty artists such as Nick Briz, Jon Satrom and Jon Cates, and students such as myself, Yuan Zheng and Blair Bogin. This form of filmmaking treats the computer screen as both a camera lens and a canvas, tapping into its potential as an artistic medium."
Responding to Kenny's article, Lee says, "There is a perpetual tension in how expressions of progressivism, radicalism or critical awareness can be readily co-opted and commoditized by mainstream culture. Of course when I say this I am thinking about "The Premake" and what fate lies ahead of it: whether whatever about it that can be called critical or even radical in its regard to global Hollywood will simply melt away, leaving an easily co-optable husk of Fun. I wouldn't be surprised if soon studios will launch official "premake" contests where they encourage fans to make their own version of upcoming studio releases based on footage that fans are allowed to shoot on set. Crowdsourcing as outsourcing. Perhaps it's the logical outcome of a society where everyone has the technology to make their own movies but still look to Hollywood for assigning which moving images are the ones worth caring about."
Before I included GLFW, the build was working perfectly fine with premake while Based::CreateApplication was incorporated. After a bit of fishing, I commented out the the Based::CreateApplication function and found the problem truly lied within the MacWindow file. It could not identify glfw3.h. Not 100% sure why, the MacWindow file has includedirs to the directory of GLFW. Although, now I have a completely working project with GLFW added as a submodule and built with premake.
The premake would be cooking down shallots and shitake mushrooms (porcini if I can get them) in butter with some seasoning, along with some dry sherry or white wine, maybe adding some broth too at this point.
Why do you have to build a workspace/project using tools like premake, CMake etc, in order to use OpenGL?
A lot of tutorials says that you have to, but I have yet to find one that can give a good explanation as of why.
However if I were to build my own application, independent of a tutorial that is, would it be necessary to use third-party utilities like CMake and premake then?
As I in that case would build an .exe file, with my compiler, that would at the very least be able to run under the same platform it was developed on, be it windows, OSX, or one of the particular linux-distributions.
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Note: Currently we bundle an unmodified version of Premake 5 alpha 12 release, located in build/premake/premake5. We also bundle a few plugins that extend the features of premake to suit our needs: those are located under build/premake/. We also still distribute our former modified version of Premake 4.3, which is still used by our CI scripts to avoid regressions. We will get rid of it when we drop premake4 for good.
This tells Premake to use our custom premake5.lua to generate a GNU make workspace located in build/workspaces/gcc/. Those options are self-explanatory, but there are a number of other options supported by Premake and our custom scripts, listed below.
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