tiki_build

Module Extension on top of Premake5 with support for external Git and SVN modules

Getting Started

Place the latest premake_tb executable in the root of your repository.

Now create a premake5.lua file as for Premake. But instead of Premake's functions use the tiki_build classes like in the following Example:

local project = Project:new( "project_name", ProjectTypes.ConsoleApplication )

project:add_files( "src/*.c" )

finalize_default_solution( project )

Modules

You can easily create multiple modules and tiki_build will resolve and combine them together:

• modules/core/core.lua:

module:add_include_dir( "include" );
module:add_files( "include/**/*.h" )
module:add_files( "src/*.c" )

• modules/io/io.lua:

module:add_include_dir( "include" );
module:add_files( "include/**/*.h" )
module:add_files( "src/*.c" )
module:add_dependency( "core" )

• premake5.lua:

add_module_include_path( "modules" )

local project = Project:new( "module_sample", ProjectTypes.ConsoleApplication )
project:add_files( "src/main.c" )
project:add_dependency( "io" )

finalize_default_solution( project )

This sample Project will contain all include and source files from core and io module plus the main.c. The dependency tree will be resolved automatically. Also creates unity build files for every module to speed up build times.

Externals

To import external modules from Git use the add_external function. For Reprositories that already have a tiki.lua nothing more is todo. Otherwise create a import script in your repository with the following rule. Prepend externals/ and remove :/ from URL to get the path:

https://github.com/nlohmann/json.git goes to external/https/github.com/nlohmann/json.git/tiki.lua

An external module behaves like a normal module. You can get additional information about the external from a local variable called: tiki.external.

tiki_build provides some built-in externals:

• https://github.com/erincatto/box2d.git
• https://github.com/kimperator/T-Rex.git
• https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2.git
• https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL.git
• https://github.com/nigels-com/glew.git
• https://github.com/nothings/stb.git
• https://github.com/ocornut/imgui.git
• https://www.sqlite.org