Lex Spoon

I'm Lex Spoon, a software enthusiast living in Atlanta, GA. I write on Substack and on my home page in addition to here.

Showing posts with label build tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label build tools. Show all posts
Friday, September 1, 2023

Task-based build systems

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Today I ran into a great book chapter by Erik Kuefler and Lisa Carey about Google's build system philosophy . It's all very good, bu...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Supporting C in a build system

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In a previous post, I showed that the standard build rules for C code are unreliable . Let me describe two ways to do better. In the intere...

Standard build rules for C are unreliable

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The standard way of integrating C into a build system is to use automatic dependencies generated from the compiler . Gcc and Clang can emit ...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Recursive Maven considered harmful

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I have been strongly influenced by Peter Miller's article Recursive Make Considered Harmful . Peter showed that if you used the language...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Teach your build tool jars, not classes

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As far as I can tell, the single compelling feature about ant as a build system is that it makes it easy to compile Java. I just encountered...
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