HiveCpp

summary:

A compacted library of variouse tools, useful (at least for me)

HOW to use

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| from the command line you use py -m hivecpp [, /f, /c] <your arguments>

if the switch /f is used, then all laters arguments should be paths to argument files. this is the only way to execute batch-like builds with multible argument files

otherwise, if the switch /c is used or if no switch is used at all, then all the build arguments should be passed into the command line, at the place of <your arguments>

EX for the first method:

C:\Users\James>py -m hivecpp /f my_args.args

the my_args.args path is reletive, so it's more like C:\Users\James\my_args.args

then you have in your my_args.args file (read the coments):

# the args file supports comments!
# smart argument reading!
# but not single qouts :(

# the project path
project "C:\Users\James\Desktop\MyProject"

# the source folder, '__proj__' will be replaced by the 'project' path
source "__proj__\src"

# the output for all headers in the source folder
output "C:\Users\James\Documents\MyLib\include"

# defining a macro with name 'lib_folder' that will replace every '__lib_folder__'
define:lib_folder "C:\Users\James\Documents\MyLib"

# copy operation, '/o' at the end so it will overwrite the destination
copy # Arguemnts can be passed one or more values at one line
"__proj__\output\my_lib.lib" "__lib_folder__\lib\lib-64.lib"
/o # this will be parsed as a part of copy

# delete operation (not sure if it will be moved to the trashbin or completly erased)
delete "__proj__\temp"

# adds a new files type to be treated like a header, e.g. copied to the source_output
include_file_type "bat" 

i want the second method, to pass all arguments into the command line!

Firstly: just why? it's much cleaner to use a hive args file

Secondly: Alrigh, you can pass arguments to the command line, just remove the comments and replace every new line with a space to make the entire file as one line (you might need to add /c as the first argument)

Why not CMake?

hivecpp is smaller and easier, given you have (wich most of you have) python installed

FAQs

Why can't this be a standalone executable?

becuse a value a transparent script that hides nothing, but if you wanted a standalone executable, just make it, there is a lot of tools that can convert a python script(s) to a standalone executable and don't violate my copyright/licence

Where there be support for more languages?

Hopefuly, contact me if you want to contribute something

open source doesn't mean open to all contributions, any random merge requests will not be accepted.

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god bless