GENie - Project generator tool

What is it?

GENie (pronounced as Jenny) is project generator tool. It automagically generates project from Lua script, making applying the same settings for multiple projects easy.

Supported project generators:

• Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
• GNU Makefile
• XCode

Who is using it?

https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

https://github.com/Psybrus/Psybrus Psybrus Engine & Toolchain

https://github.com/dariomanesku/cmftstudio cmftStudio - cubemap filtering tool

https://github.com/mamedev/mame MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

http://sol.gfxile.net/soloud SoLoud is an easy to use, free, portable c/c++ audio engine for games.

https://github.com/andr3wmac/Torque6 Torque 6 is an MIT licensed 3D engine loosely based on Torque2D. Being neither Torque2D or Torque3D it is the 6th derivative of the original Torque Engine.

Download (stable)

version 415 (commit 53635be7264271a6d6c95b059c420251b7eb3280)

Linux:
https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx/raw/master/tools/bin/linux/genie

OSX:
https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx/raw/master/tools/bin/darwin/genie

Windows:
https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx/raw/master/tools/bin/windows/genie.exe

Building (dev)

$ git clone https://github.com/bkaradzic/genie
$ cd genie
$ make

Documentation

Scripting Reference

History

Initial version of GENie is fork of Premake 4.4 beta 5, and there is no intention to keep it compatible with it.

Changelog (since fork)

• Added vs2013 support.
• Added hash UUID support. os.uuid(<string>) should produce consistent UUID.
• Added search for default script. Default script name is changed to genie.lua (solution.lua and premake4.lua are also allowed), and it can be located in scripts directory.
• Updated Lua from 5.1.4 to 5.3.0.
• Disabled SmallerTypeCheck VS option when ExtraWarnings is set (need to move it into separate option).
• New versioning scheme based on revision number from git.
• Added startproject "<project name>" to set default project in VS.
• Removed NoMinimalRebuild and added reversed logic to EnableMinimalRebuild.
• Added NoMultiProcessorCompilation flag to disable multiprocessor compilation in MSVC.
• Added ability to configure Visual Studio toolset from GENie script.
• Added UnsignedChar flag to force char to be unsigned.
• Removed vs2002, vs2003, vs2005, Solaris, and Haiku support.
• Allow source files in the same project to have the same name. Added SingleOutputDir flag to use single output directory (original behaviour).
• Added WinRT support (Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Store, Universal Apps).
• Added removeflags, removelinks.
• Added vs2015 support.
• Added targetsubdir.
• Added support for solution folders group.
• Added options section (and ForceCpp to enforce C++ compile even if extension is for C files)
• Added msgcompile, msgresource, msglinking and msgarchiving as overrides for make messages.
• Added messageskip list to disable some of compiler messages.
• Added buildoptions_c, buildoptions_cpp, buildoptions_objc for configuring language specific build options.
• Split functionality of excludes in removefiles and excludes. With VS excludes will exclude files from build but files will be added to project file. removefiles removes files completely from project.
• Added support for generating PS4/Orbis projects.
• Fixed PCH race when using concurrent Makefile build.
• Added Green Hills Software compiler support.
• Added edit & continue support for 64-bit builds in VS2013 upwards.
• Added windowstargetplatformversion to specify VS Windows target version.

License

GENie
Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Branimir Karadžić, Neil Richardson, Mike Popoloski,
Drew Solomon, Ted de Munnik, Miodrag Milanović, Brett Vickers, Bill Freist,
Terry Hendrix II, Ryan Juckett, Andrew Johnson
All rights reserved.

https://github.com/bkaradzic/genie

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
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3. Neither the name of the GENie nor the names of its contributors may be 
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