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by gaurav1804
1453 days ago
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Hi! You are right in saying that Beast is "conceptually" similar to Make (and Ninja). But it is much faster and much more user-friendly than Make. Second, you are listing tools like cmake and meson. Note that these are NOT build systems but they are META BUILD SYSTEMS. Meta build systems are tools that don't really build your project themselves... instead they rely on tools like Make, Ninja and Beast to build it for you. You must have seen that Cmake emits a Makefile (or Ninja file depending upon your choice). So comparison in speed to meson will not be appropriate. (Let us just call them high level build tools) About your third query... Well Beast is easy enough to compile. If you don't want to compile it, you can directly download the system binaries at https://github.com/GauravDawra/Beast/releases/tag/v1.1.0 I'm currently using Make to compile Beast because I originally compiled it using Make. It will soon move on to CMake. Please note that it is totally OK to use flex and bison. You don't even need them since I have already provided the cpp/h files generated by them on github! |
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That's technically true, but you could just integrate the Ninja source code into such a meta build system and run it e.g. with a different command line option and then at the latest the attribute "meta" would be no longer relevant. "meta" in this context doesn't actually mean "on a meta level", but just that the tool is a transpiler from a high-level to a low-level build description, instead of a full execution engine. make (in contrast to Ninja) has features for both levels. Personally I would prefer an integrated system, so bootstrapping would not involve two (artificially) separate parts. But as I understand your message is that Beast is rather a Ninja alternative than a Cmake alternative. That's ok, although we already have Ninja and it claims to be a very fast build tool. So in the question we then just replace Cmake/Meson by Ninja.
> since I have already provided the cpp/h files generated by them on github!
Ok, I see. So it then also runs on Windows? How do you build the tool on Windows?
EDIT: actually if you're interested in GN, which has some very good concepts not seen elsewhere, I've written a tool to view and navigate GN source trees, see https://github.com/rochus-keller/GnTools. I usually use it with the Dart SDK source tree.