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Community Update #11

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Nick Clark
Nick Clark
Premake Developer

It's been almost 3 years since the last community update, and over 2 years since the last beta. Without further ado, here are the community contributions fromt the last 2 years.

Road to Premake 5.0​

Most of the heavy lifting for Premake 5.0 is done, but there are a few major milestones left for leaving beta and going to full release.

  1. Deprecation and removal of the flags API. Flags are a remenant of older models. Instead, flags will be migrated to the idiomatic Premake approach of dedicated APIs. This isn't going to be as trivial as "On" and "Off", as many of these flags represent a larger group of behaviors.

  2. Deprecation and removal of the gmake exporter in favor of gmake2. This has been one of the goals for many years now, and we're confident that gmake2 is in a spot where it can be "promoted" to the primary GNU makefile exporter. In the next release, gmake will likely be renamed and deprecated, and gmake will describe the gmake2 exporter. This will be a breaking change, but we feel it is the best way forward to remove the bifurcation of the makefile exporter. Until the time when we do remove the legacy gmake exporter, users current leveraging the legacy exporter are encouraged to try out the gmake2 exporter and report any defects or feature deficiencies in order to make the change as seamless as possible.

In order to make sure we capture the needs of users for the 5.0 stable release, I encourage you to open issues or discussions to ensure the transition to 5.0 is an easy user experience.

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Community Contributions​

  • #1841 Update shadertype.md (@TylerDahl)
  • #1842 Update shaderobjectfileoutput.md (@TylerDahl)
  • #1843 Update shadermodel.md (@TylerDahl)
  • #1942 Release/v5.0 beta2 (@premake)
  • #1951 Fix custom build with missing directory (@Jarod42)
  • #1952 vstudio: add usestandardpreprocessor option (@flakey5)
  • #1954 Add newoption.catagory to documentation, mark os.is as deprecated (@thomashope)
  • #1959 Use admonitions in documentation for things marked as deprecated (@thomashope)
  • #1970 Updated Android docs (@LORgames)
  • #1971 Fixed a couple of issues with the Custom Rules docs (@LORgames)
  • #1975 Strip linking decorators for sibling projects (@LORgames)
  • #1976 Android projects use IncludePath instead of ExternalIncludePath (@LORgames)
  • #1978 Added support for CopyFileToFolders via Copy buildaction (@LORgames)
  • #1980 Added UWP support for VS projects (@LORgames)
  • #1981 Update usefullpaths.md (@nepp95)
  • #1985 Update defaultplatform.md (@GiacomoMaino)
  • #1992 Add AntTarget to vsandroid project file (@0x416c69)
  • #1997 Add validation for toolset. (@Jarod42)
  • #2003 Allow to specify "--cc=msc" as command line. (@Jarod42)
  • #2004 Handle entrypoint for msc. (@Jarod42)
  • #2006 externalwarnings, externalanglebrackets, externalincludedirs was already available in vs2019 (@Jarod42)
  • #2009 Fix typos in comment. (@Jarod42)
  • #2010 Typo fix (@brno32)
  • #2011 Add support for unity builds (@Sharlock93)
  • #2022 Fix Debian build recepie. (@KOLANICH-tools)
  • #2023 Fix support of openmp for visual studio with clang toolset. (@Jarod42)
  • #2024 Fix typo in bytecode description. (@Jarod42)
  • #2025 Fix missing targets file issue in some C++ nuget packages (@hanagasira)
  • #2027 sanitize { "Address" } should set link flags too for gcc/clang. (@Jarod42)
  • #2028 Add support for idirafter flag in GCC/Clang (@nickclark2016)
  • #2032 Change to minimize differences after Codelite re-save the file (@Jarod42)
  • #2034 Robustify http.get tests with retry. (@Jarod42)
  • #2039 gmake2: Fix detecting msdos vs posix shell (@Peter0x44)
  • #2042 Fix compileas "C" and "C++" for gcc (shared with clang). (@Jarod42)
  • #2052 Fix typo (@rafaelcn)
  • #2061 Fixed issue with Codelite unit test (@LORgames)
  • #2064 Updated actions from v2 to v3 (@LORgames)
  • #2066 Improve error message of include (@Jarod42)
  • #2070 Add support of prelink steps (similar to prebuild steps) for Codelite. (@Jarod42)
  • #2072 Fix prelink step dependencies for gmake (to be done after compilation). (@Jarod42)
  • #2075 remove trailing whitespaces and add new line at eof (@hanagasira)
  • #2076 Allow to select specific version of msc in command line. (@Jarod42)
  • #2081 Add some missing flags for msc toolset (@Jarod42)
  • #2084 Update debugdir.md docs to clarify feature support (@thomashope)
  • #2087 Add clarification for relative paths (@learn-more)
  • #2088 Fix nil indexing for codelite (@Jarod42)
  • #2090 Add support to undefines for Codelite. (@Jarod42)
  • #2102 remove reference to non existent example. (@mcarlson-nvidia)
  • #2104 Add VS2022 to list of valid kinds for Android Packaging (@premake)
  • #2117 Require unistd.h for macosx in libzip (@nickclark2016)
  • #2118 Changes target of HTTP tests to hopefully resolve test issues in CI (@nickclark2016)
  • #2122 Fix premake.findProjectScript of previous commit. (@Jarod42)
  • #2127 Fixes for using debugger under Linux (@vadz)
  • #2131 Use call array for MSVS filters file generation too (@vadz)
  • #2135 Fix libzip missing a library (@KanuX-14)
  • #2172 Custom LLVM Versions for VS2019+ (@nickclark2016)
  • #2187 Enable code analysis via clang-tidy in Visual Studio (@theComputeKid)
  • #2194 [vs*] Allow to have per-file cdialect/cppdialect. (@Jarod42)
  • #2195 [vs2010+] Handle compileas for files with "unknown" extensions. (@Jarod42)
  • #2203 Add CA root certificate path for Haiku (@augiedoggie)
  • #2217 Add Library to available shadertypes (@vkaytsanov)
  • #2237 [CI] add dependabot.yml to maintain version action up to date (@Jarod42)
  • #2238 Bump the github-actions group with 3 updates (@premake)
  • #2243 Fix stack manipulation in Premake's luaL_loadfilex override. (@tritao)
  • #2251 Add a os.hostarch() function to get the host system architecture. (@tritao)
  • #2252 Document os.rename and os.getenv APIs (@tritao)
  • #2253 Add term.clearToEndOfLine and term.moveLeft API additions. (@tritao)
  • #2254 Adds desktop system tag to desktop systems. (@tritao)
  • #2255 Move sanitize, visibility and inlinesvisibility to shared table. (@alex-rass-88)
  • #2261 Add tests for table.merge. (@tritao)
  • #2263 Adds a new os.targetarch() function. (@tritao)
  • #2264 Show error messages from broken includes (@richard-sim)
  • #2268 Re-structure common docs files into sub-folders. (@tritao)
  • #2269 Upgrade docs to latest Docusaurus version. (@tritao)
  • #2271 Add linker flag and LLD support. (@tritao)
  • #2272 Fixed issue with include failing to find embedded files (@LORgames)
  • #2274 Port Premake to Cosmopolitan Libc (@tritao)
  • #2277 Add C++23 cppdialect (@jlaumon)
  • #2278 Prevent empty arrays as expected values for test.contains and test.excludes (@LORgames)
  • #2279 Added ci job to simplify required checks in PRs (@LORgames)
  • #2280 Upgrade libcurl to latest. (@tritao)
  • #2281 Fix vstudio/MSC not supporting the C++23 flag yet (@jlaumon)
  • #2283 Miscelanneous cleanups (@tritao)
  • #2284 Fix os.host for Cosmopolitan build (@tritao)
  • #2287 [doc] Write doc for unsignedchar (@Jarod42)
  • #2294 Add projects web and github (@Jarod42)
  • #2299 Remove generated "website/node_modules"'s files from project (@Jarod42)
  • #2301 Fix spelling insice -> inside (@jonesy-b-dev)
  • #2316 Update modules.md (@day-garwood)

Additional gratitude and good wishes to everyone who helped review pull requests and triage issues this cycle. Projects like this don't work without you.

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