ire4ever1190 / doit

Make files are good, but lets complicate them for no reason

Do it

Was bored over summer holidays and decided to finally build the build system I had in my head. Think make but with bit more spice. Is mostly file based (So language agnostic) since my main use for make was compiling random scripts and tex files together for assignments.

This really is more of just a hobby thing for personal use so don't expect it to be too fancy

Basic usage

First make sure you have both Nim and nimble installed and then install doit by running nimble install https://github.com/ire4ever1190/doit

Then you create a file called doit.nim and put this basic structure in it

import doit/api

# targets and tasks go here

run()

You can write any Nim code in here but since you are using this you'll probably want to write some targets and tasks.

• target: Code that takes in some requirement files and produces a target file
• task: Code that always runs when its a requirement

A basic Nim project would look like this

import doit/api

target("program", ["program.nim", "other.nim"]):
  cmd "nim c program.nim"

task("clean"): # Just like .PHONY in make, means this always runs
  rm "./program"

run()

Running doit program will then compile the program (Running it again will do nothing since it detects no modification) and doit clean will remove it

Roadmap

• Basic make like operations
• Detecting cycles in operations
• Expand the API
• Documentation
• Pattern matching
• Lazy loading of dependencies
• Automatic finding of dependencies for different file types (Maybe through some form of a hooks system for file extensions)