cmany¶

Easily batch-build cmake projects!

cmany is a command line tool to easily build variations of a CMake C/C++ project. It combines different compilers, cmake build types, compilation flags, processor architectures and operating systems.

For example, to configure and build a project combining clang++ and g++ with both Debug and Release:

$ cmany build -c clang++,g++ -t Debug,Release path/to/CMakeLists.txt

The command above will result in four different build trees, placed by default under a build directory placed in the current working directory:

$ ls build/*
build/linux-x86_64-clang++3.9-Debug
build/linux-x86_64-clang++3.9-Release
build/linux-x86_64-gcc++6.1-Debug
build/linux-x86_64-gcc++6.1-Release

Each build tree is obtained by first configuring CMake with the given parameters, and then invoking cmake --build to build the project at once.

You can also use cmany just to simplify your cmake workflow! These two command sequences have the same effect:

typical cmake	cmany
`$ mkdir build` `$ cd build` `$ cmake ..` `$ cmake --build .`	`$ cmany b`

Features¶

Easily configure and build many variations of your project with one simple command.
Saves the tedious work of dealing with many build trees by hand.
Sensible defaults: cmany build will create and build a single project using CMake’s defaults.
Transparently pass flags (compiler flags, processor defines or cmake cache variables) to any or all of the builds.
Useful for build comparison and benchmarking. You can easily setup bundles of flags, aka variants.
Useful for validating and unit-testing your project with different compilers and flags.
Useful for creating distributions of your project.
Avoids a full rebuild when the build type is changed. Although this feature already exists in multi-configuration cmake generators like Visual Studio, it is missing from mono-configuration generators like Unix Makefiles.
Run arbitrary commands in every build tree or install tree.

More info¶

Support¶

Gitter room: https://gitter.im/cmany_/community.
send bug reports to https://github.com/biojppm/cmany/issues.
send pull requests to https://github.com/biojppm/cmany/pulls.

Current status¶

cmany is in alpha state, under current development.

Known issues¶

cmany invokes the compilers given to it to find their name and version. So far, this successfully works with Visual Studio, gcc (also with arm-linux and mips-linux counterparts), clang, icc and zapcc. However, the current implementation for guessing the name and version is fragile and may fail in some compilers which were not tested. Please submit a bug or PR if you see such a failure.
Though cmany works in OS X with gcc and clang, using Xcode has not been tested at all. Get in touch if you are interested in getting cmany to work with Xcode.
Pure C projects (ie not C++) should work but have not yet been tested. Some bugs may be present.

License¶

cmany is permissively licensed under the MIT license.