Premake5 custom make target generation

[Victor P. R. Müller]

Hello fellows,

currently at my university we learn C++ using g++ and gnu make and weekly have to solve a training paper.

Because I'm already a much more experienced developer I know and value the benefit of an IDE so I would like to use Visual Studio for testing and developing my code using premake for project file and makefile generation.

However the testing system of my university requires specific target names in the makefile so I have to somehow tell premake how certain tasks should be named in the makefile.

Is there any possibility to influence the task names premake is generating and / or even adding some?

Respectfully,

Victor P. R. Müller

[starkos]

Hello Victor,

No, not really, that's not an intended use of Premake. You could use it to generate an example Makefile, or you could search-and-replace the Makefiles that Premake generates.

–st.