makescript v0.1.4

Makescript v0.1.3

INSTALLING

• git clone git://github.com/nbdd0121/make.js.git
• cd make.js
• npm install

OR SIMPLY

• npm install -g makescript

USAGE

1. Create your own makescript file
2. Execute makejs
3. Should work as expected

MAKESCRIPT

This tool organizes libraries by modules. Currently there are 4 modules:

make

target(TARGET, DEP, ACTIONS)

Create a rule that will make TARGET using dependency DEP. TARGET will only be made if one of DEP needs making or one of DEP is newer than TARGET. If made, ACTIONS will performed.

TARGET can be string, regexp, or function

string means exact match<br/>
regexp will match target if regexp.exec(target) returns trusy value<br/>
function will match target if function(target) returns trusy value

DEP can be string or function

string means a specified dependency<br/>
function will create a dependency list according to return value of function(target)

ACTIONS are a list of function

function(target, dependency) will be executed when target is judged is make-needed

phony(TARGET, DEP, ACTIONS)

Create a rule, while TARGET is not considered a file, but only a name of rule. Phony targets will always be made.

makeTarget(TARGET)

Explicitly make TARGET.

asDefault(TARGET)

Set TARGET as the default target. TARGET will be made when no target is specified to make in the command line arguments

file-helper

makeParentDirIfNotExist(PATHS)

Create all PATHS' parent directory if they did not exist

Of the 4 modules, basic, make and file are loaded by default. When modules are loaded, its functions are added to the global object, so you can use them directly. Loaded modules can be accessed by loadedModules.

To load a module explicitly, use use('module_name'). For example, if you want to use module file-helper, write code use('file-helper').

EXAMPLE MAKESCRIPT

use('file-helper');
log(loadedModules); // Output will be ['basic', 'make', 'file', 'file-helper']
function linker(target, dep) {
	exec('gcc', '-o', target, dep);
}
function cc(target, dep) {
	exec('gcc', '-c', '-o', target, dep);
}
var OBJECTS = recursiveList('src').filter(function(name) {
	return /\.c$/.exec(name);
}).map(function(name) {
	return 'bin/' + name.replace(/\.(c|asm)$/, '.o');
});	// Powerful customed making using regular expression and JavaScript built-in functions
makeParentDirIfNotExist(OBJECTS);
target(/bin\/.*\.o$/, function(target) {
	return target.replace('bin/', 'src/').replace(/\.o$/, '.c');
}, cc);	// Regexp as target and function as dependency generator
target('output', OBJECTS, linker); // Basic kind of target
asDefault('output');

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS