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Welcome to the Premake Developers discussion forum. This is the best for talking about developing, customizing, or extending the Premake build configuration tool and add-on modules. For questions about using Premake or authoring project scripts, please post your question on StackOverflow and add the #premake tag so that everyone can benefit from the answers.

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9/5/19

Questions about adding a new compiler or toolset, and choosing it from the command line

I'm using Premake5 to build a C project that compiles to a static lib and console app with GCC or

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Questions about adding a new compiler or toolset, and choosing it from the command line

I'm using Premake5 to build a C project that compiles to a static lib and console app with GCC or

9/5/19

8/16/19

Premake is now on Twitter

Hi all—in case anyone is still hanging around here, not wanting to miss any announcements: Premake

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Premake is now on Twitter

Hi all—in case anyone is still hanging around here, not wanting to miss any announcements: Premake

8/16/19

2/2/19

Premake (.lua) <> syncProj (.cs => c++) and smoother integration into Visual Studio...

Hi ! Like you all probably know premake5 at the moment is generation only tool. It can generate .sln

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Premake (.lua) <> syncProj (.cs => c++) and smoother integration into Visual Studio...

Hi ! Like you all probably know premake5 at the moment is generation only tool. It can generate .sln

2/2/19

Geoff Evans, … Tom van Dijck8

1/7/19

> as evidence to avoid rich chat. I'm sorry if that didn't come over very well, I wasn

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> as evidence to avoid rich chat. I'm sorry if that didn't come over very well, I wasn

1/7/19

Geoff Evans, … David Gregory4

12/29/18

Re: pull request #829 (Reduced vs2010+ file sizes by removing redundant config settings)

I had no idea that these forums were considered "dead". I have reposted this question as an

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Re: pull request #829 (Reduced vs2010+ file sizes by removing redundant config settings)

I had no idea that these forums were considered "dead". I have reposted this question as an

12/29/18

Geoff Evans, Tom van Dijck3

12/28/18

Thanks so much for the tip, Tom!

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Thanks so much for the tip, Tom!

12/28/18

9/25/18

Re: pull request #829 (Reduced vs2010+ file sizes by removing redundant config settings)

Hi all, I'm trying to understand why this change was made? Old premake prior to this change: <

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Re: pull request #829 (Reduced vs2010+ file sizes by removing redundant config settings)

Hi all, I'm trying to understand why this change was made? Old premake prior to this change: <

9/25/18

Mihai Sebea, starkos5

9/13/18

Profiling premake

why thank you ! I know it's a great idea ... :) I'm just not sure where should i cache this

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Profiling premake

why thank you ! I know it's a great idea ... :) I'm just not sure where should i cache this

9/13/18

Mihai Sebea, starkos3

9/6/18

Thanks a LOT for the quick reply ! It worked ! I have updated the documentation to reflect this !

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Thanks a LOT for the quick reply ! It worked ! I have updated the documentation to reflect this !

9/6/18

8/12/18

Best way to apply Custom Rule to *specific* files

Hi Our usecase is to include some files directly into the binary as binary blobs (commonly eg images,

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Best way to apply Custom Rule to *specific* files

Hi Our usecase is to include some files directly into the binary as binary blobs (commonly eg images,

8/12/18

Victor P. R. Müller, starkos2

4/25/18

Premake5 custom make target generation

Hello Victor, No, not really, that's not an intended use of Premake. You could use it to generate

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Premake5 custom make target generation

Hello Victor, No, not really, that's not an intended use of Premake. You could use it to generate

4/25/18

Gary Wang, starkos2

4/16/18

Premake4 version 4.4 stable release progress?

I've responded to this issue on GitHub, which I think is yours: https://github.com/premake/

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Premake4 version 4.4 stable release progress?

I've responded to this issue on GitHub, which I think is yours: https://github.com/premake/

4/16/18

Joe Best-Rotheray, starkos6

3/27/18

builddependencies in custom build commands?

Ah ha! I was planning to add this myself and submit a pull request, and I came across "

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builddependencies in custom build commands?

Ah ha! I was planning to add this myself and submit a pull request, and I came across "

3/27/18

starkos, Tom van Dijck2

9/14/17

moomalade/premake-usage

At Blizzard we're using the "Export" module (https://github.com/Meoo/premake-export) in

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moomalade/premake-usage

At Blizzard we're using the "Export" module (https://github.com/Meoo/premake-export) in

9/14/17

Tarmo Pikaro, starkos2

8/24/17

C++ references C# project, how to set copy local = No ?

This might be a "submit a pull request" issue…I don't know if anyone has investigated

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C++ references C# project, how to set copy local = No ?

This might be a "submit a pull request" issue…I don't know if anyone has investigated

8/24/17

8/23/17

Premake 5.0-alpha12 Released!

Get it here: https://github.com/premake/premake-core/releases/tag/v5.0.0-alpha12 Changes since the

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Premake 5.0-alpha12 Released!

Get it here: https://github.com/premake/premake-core/releases/tag/v5.0.0-alpha12 Changes since the

8/23/17

8/16/17

Branched for 5.0-alpha12

Just an FYI that I've spun off a new branch for the 5.0-alpha 10 release: https://github.com/

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Branched for 5.0-alpha12

Just an FYI that I've spun off a new branch for the 5.0-alpha 10 release: https://github.com/

8/16/17

Tarmo Pikaro, … Tom van Dijck3

8/7/17

premake 32-bit configuration name - x86 or Win32 ?

Also, just to make sure we take out this possibility... I would no longer use the "x32" and

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premake 32-bit configuration name - x86 or Win32 ?

Also, just to make sure we take out this possibility... I would no longer use the "x32" and

8/7/17

6/11/17

iOS support/multi platform XCode support

Hello all, Background I'm looking to use Premake5 with a cross-platform code base. I'm sure

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iOS support/multi platform XCode support

Hello all, Background I'm looking to use Premake5 with a cross-platform code base. I'm sure

6/11/17

5/9/17

How do we debug premake now?

I updated to the latest trunk as of now and I no longer can debug premake in Decoda. I have debug

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How do we debug premake now?

I updated to the latest trunk as of now and I no longer can debug premake in Decoda. I have debug

5/9/17

TheDeviloper, starkos5

4/8/17

How to implement per file command line arguments?

After doing a lot of reverse engineering and I found a way that seems to work. In case other people

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How to implement per file command line arguments?

After doing a lot of reverse engineering and I found a way that seems to work. In case other people

4/8/17

3/24/17

I did a very simple implementation for testing here: https://github.com/tvandijck/packagesrv-web

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I did a very simple implementation for testing here: https://github.com/tvandijck/packagesrv-web

3/24/17

Noresources, starkos3

3/20/17

specifying user-defined absolute run path search directories

The credits for the wiki goes to João Matos. If I have something to add to premake later, I promise I

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specifying user-defined absolute run path search directories

The credits for the wiki goes to João Matos. If I have something to add to premake later, I promise I

3/20/17

Damien Courtois2

3/16/17

weird bug with debugargs

Ok, I answer to myself : debugargs misses a "allowDuplicates = true," field in its

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weird bug with debugargs

Ok, I answer to myself : debugargs misses a "allowDuplicates = true," field in its

3/16/17

Johannes Spohr, … Dmytro Ivanov9

2/21/17

Post build commands in the Ninja generator

The only problem with "cmd.exe /c" is the startup time of any executables on Windows -

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Post build commands in the Ninja generator

The only problem with "cmd.exe /c" is the startup time of any executables on Windows -

2/21/17

Tarmo Pikaro, … Sam Surtees7

2/14/17

premake / Generating .vcxproj & .androidproj for Android platform...

The Android module that I'm using works perfectly fine.

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premake / Generating .vcxproj & .androidproj for Android platform...

The Android module that I'm using works perfectly fine.

2/14/17

Tarmo Pikaro, … Sam Surtees15

2/13/17

Further premake improvement - defining action as it's own function...

If you want to target multiple versions of VS within the same solution, you can use the toolset API.

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Further premake improvement - defining action as it's own function...

If you want to target multiple versions of VS within the same solution, you can use the toolset API.

2/13/17

2/4/17

Generating project / solution in similar manner to premake5...

Fixed another bug .lua generation, so .lua script above should look like this: project "

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Generating project / solution in similar manner to premake5...

Fixed another bug .lua generation, so .lua script above should look like this: project "

2/4/17

Tarmo Pikaro, starkos3

1/25/17

premake oddities / bugs...

> Or, more likely, per-file support hasn't been added for that feature yet. I'm working on

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premake oddities / bugs...

> Or, more likely, per-file support hasn't been added for that feature yet. I'm working on

1/25/17

1/13/17

Generating premake .lua script from solution / project...

Hi ! Added initial support for solution generation using .cs script. Syntax currently resembles quite

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Generating premake .lua script from solution / project...

Hi ! Added initial support for solution generation using .cs script. Syntax currently resembles quite

1/13/17

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