----- 4.0 (in progress) ----- This version is a complete rewrite of Premake. - A new, more readable and extensible syntax for projects - More robust syntax validation - A new command-line format, with better argument validation - Improved path handling across all project settings - Upgraded to Lua 5.1.4 - Many, many bug fixes RC2 -> RC3 - Display paths of generated files RC1 -> RC2 - Enabled use of absolute Windows paths to different drive letter - Bug: Post-build commands run before build on Code::Blocks - Removed FatalWarnings build flag - Fixed GCC 4.2 warnings (Ryan Pusztai) - Enable Windows linking to shared libraries even with NoImportLib flag set (just in case) - Fixed handling of paths in links - Added "ToolsVersion" attribute to VS2005 and VS2008 C# projects - Fixed separator between library dependencies in C++ makefiles - Added missing os.copyfile() function - Bug: Sometimes takes a long time to complete on Linux - Enabled Lua popen support on Linux and Mac OS X ----- 3.7 ----- - Updated Lua to 5.1.3 - Added new CodeLite support target (Ryan Pusztai) - Added new cb-ow (Code::Blocks Open Watcom) target (Tim Channon) - Place OSX winexe's into Content/MacOS folder (William Burnson) - Sibling executables may now be listed in package.links - Bug 1520012: Improper Makefiles when filenames have spaces (Diaa Sami) - Bug 2045506: "no-exceptions" flag ignored for VS200x (Benoit Miller) - Bug 2034470: Error in cmd line error handler - Bug 2114152: package or config table isn't generated automatically ----- 3.6 ----- - Patch 1946122: Add support for VS2008 (Ryan Pusztai) - Patch 1913448: Win32 crash when using '--clean --usetargetpath' (David Walters) - Patch 1771168: luaL_getn speed optimization (Richard O'Grady) - Bug 1939089: Premake segfault on Linux/PPC (Fabio Till) - Fixed "bad argument #2 to 'chdir'" error - Disable -MMD on multiple -arch flags (poor man's Universal binary support) ----- 3.5 ----- - Prevent creation of import libraries on OS X - Improved handling of dylibs on OS X - Patch 1771977: Ability to compile C source as C++ in Code::Blocks (Ryan Pusztai) - Bug 1804810: out-implib not present in linux gnu compler toolchain - Bug 1806949: .Net reference paths are broken when bindir is specified - Bug 1806960: Make clean does not remove .mdb files - Bug 1831389: Makefiles stored in subdirs contain no targets on first run ----- 3.4 ----- - Added `no-pch` flag to suppress precompiled headers - Added App.config support to GNU makefiles - Add os.mkdir() to script environment - Makefile now creates target directory before copying .NET references - Feature 1520182: Enhanced file-handling functions - Bug 531878: Problems with relative paths - Bug 1723867: Config-specific post-build on GNU target (Benoit Miller) - Bug 1596826: XML targets doesn't escape xml entities - Bug 1600155: Core dump due to newpackage() and matchfiles() - Bug 1608895: resgen command shown - Bug 1639730: Output filename is not set - Bug 1729227: non-portable executable with relative library path - Bug 1559951: default clean rule removes package dir - Patch 1733674: PCH support for Code::Block targets (Ryan Pusztai) - Patch 1746563: Ability to specify GUID for VS targets (Ryan Pusztai) - Patch 1754867: Creating import lib of different name (Ryan Pusztai) ----- 3.3 ----- - Added support for prebuild, prelink, and postbuild commands - Added `target` global variable to script environment - Added build flag `no-edit-and-continue` - Added build flags `native-wchar` and `no-native-wchar` - Added build flag `no-manifest` - Added build flag `seh-exceptions` (VS2005 only) - Added `resdefines`, `respaths`, and `resoptions` - Added `prebuildcommands`, `prelinkcommands`, and `postbuildcommands` - Added `pchheader` and `pchsource` (Visual Studio only) - Feature 1337547: Package-level bindir and libdir - Bug 1565755: Generated makefiles do not work with MSYS - Bug 1587955: Target path ignored for libs - Bug 1574725: Static library extension for "gnu" target - Bug 1522861: Fixed by using "ar -rcs" instead of "ar -cr && ranlib" - Bug 1656816: Mkdir set wrong directory rights - Bug 1655595: Compile/build problem on FreeBSD - Bug: "gnu" clean rule doesn't work in cmd.exe - Improved behavior of Linux findlib() - Updated Code::Blocks support to latest project version (major="1" minor="6") - Patch 1681666: GNU targets always show the console if kind = 'winexe' ----- 3.2 ----- - Added support for Code::Blocks - Updated MonoDevelop support - Upgraded Lua to 5.0.3 - Added new matchdirs() to Lua script environment - Expose list of packages as _PACKAGES global in Lua - Turn off edit-and-continue in release builds with symbols - Bug 1559873: libpaths inserts extra space after -L ----- 3.1 ----- - Added support for Visual Studio 2005 - Added support for Windows resources to GNU make target - Added path handling functions to Lua environment - Added matchrecursive() for recursive file searches - Added os.fileexists() function to Lua environment - Added os.appendfile() function to Lua environment - Changed `monoresgen` to `resgen` to keep up with Mono project - Added `mono2` .NET compiler set for Mono .NET 2.0 support - Feature 1096677: exclude files from matchfiles (package.excludes) - Bug 1439463: VS2003 RTTI problem - Bug 1439446: GNU Makefile problem under Mingw32 - Bug 1422068: package.path="." causes bad makefiles - Bug 1431530: makefile target fails when project path specified ----- 3.0 ----- - Upgraded Lua interpreter to version 5.0.1 - The options table now stores simple values, rather than tables - Completed MonoDevelop support - Improved .NET resource handling for GNU generator - Added unit test suite - Merged Scott Graham unicode build flag patch - Removed package.warninglevel in favor of extra-warnings flag - Added package.targetprefix - Overhauled structure of generated GNU makefiles - Added --os command line option - Fixed bug 1268588: Use gcc to link C packages - Fixed bug 1363306: GNU C# should copy referenced DLLs ----- 2.4 ----- - Added chdir() to Lua script environment - Merged Thomas Harning's patch for .NET resources on GNU - Fixed bug 1194702: Can't put multiple packages in same directory - Fixed bug in GNU shared library builds (doh!) - Added target 'vs2002' to replace 'vs7' ----- 2.3 ----- - Added 'project.config[]' with 'bindir' and 'libdir' - Merged Scott Graham's "warninglevel" patch. - Fixed bug 1153484: Import lib in wrong directory. - Fixed bug 1013352: Stack overflow with large projects. - Fixed bug 945406: package.files, bad value = crash ----- 2.2 ----- - Worked around VS.NET bug for .NET assemblies > 64K. - Added --very-verbose flag to GNU generator. - GNU generator now supports assembly sources. ----- 2.1 ----- - File extension of generated binaries can now be set with config.targetextension. - Windows targets now handle .def files for DLLs. ----- 2.0 ----- - Can now specify build actions per file - Include paths are now passed to VC7 resource compiler - Removed _WIN32 define from Cygwin makefiles - Added package.objdir to set intermediates directory - Added rmdir() to Lua script environment - A big bag of bug fixes ----- 1.9 ----- - Made verbose mode even more verbose. - posix.c now builds properly as C. - Fixed package dependency generation for GNU and VS2003. - Display Lua version number in usage text. - Fixed VS link between *.aspx and *.aspx.cs files. - Fixed VS link between *.resx and *.cs files. - Fixed *.d file generation for gcc 2.9x. - Unified various help options under '--help'. - Bin and Lib paths can now be arbitrarily long. - linkoptions are now applied in VC6 and VC7 projects. ----- 1.8 ----- - Added support for ASP.NET projects. - Fixed a bug in VC6 support for static libraries. - matchfiles() now uses package path instead of script path. - Added --verbose option. - No longer apply no-rtti and no-exceptions to *.c files. ----- 1.7 ----- - Location of generated project files can now be specified with the project.path variable. - Inter-package dependencies are fixed for GNU makefiles. - No longer need to execute in same directory as project script. - Added "c" language specifier. - Added support for .resx and .config files to C# projects. - Added support for full assembly names in .NET references. - Fixed handling of paths in package.target variable. - Improved support for SharpDevelop. - Started support for OS X. - Added support for Digital Mars compiler. ------- 1.6.1 ------- - VS7 generator crashed if a package was built before one of its dependencies. Now immediately assigns UUID before processing. ----- 1.6 ----- - Added support for Visual Studio 2003 and SharpDevelop. - Added binaries directory as a reference path for VS7. ----- 1.5 ----- - Added initial support for building static libraries. - Added "no-main" flag, prevents overriding WinMain() on Windows builds. - Added "--no-rtti" and "no-exceptions" build flags to disable those C++ features. - Display error message when project has no packages. - Moved VC7 *.pdb files into intermediates directory. ----- 1.4 ----- - Bug fixes to the path manipulation routines. - GNU makefiles are regenerated when premake scripts change. ----- 1.3 ----- - Added support for the Cygwin environment. - Added "static-runtime" build flag to statically link against C/C++ standard runtime libraries. - Bug fixes to Visual Studio 6 and 7 generators and path reversing algorithm. ----- 1.2 ----- - Standardized format of command-line options. - Can now handle custom command-line options in script. - Added new function findlib(). - Added new C++ build flag "managed" for writing C++ .NET code. - Can now use open-source C# compilers in VS6 generator. - Several bug fixes to the VS7 generator. ----- 1.1 ----- - Added support for custom build configurations. Added "optimize", "optimize-size", "optimize-speed", and "no-symbols" flags to control build settings. - Added matchfiles() to select files using wildcards. - Added "unsafe" flag for C# projects. - Added newpackage() function for creating new package objects inline, instead of creating separate scripts. - Changed include() to dopackage() and option() to addoption(). The old versions have been kept for compatibility, but will be deprecated eventually. - Major cleanup of the source code. ----- 1.0 ----- - Fixed a bug related to the reference paths in VS7 C# projects. - Display a warning message if a reference path can't be found. - Automatically create bin and lib directories if they do not exist. - GNU C# projects will now properly use the configured library paths. ------- 0.9.2 ------- - Added --with-mono and --with-pnet options. - VS7 C# projects will now properly use the configured library paths. ------- 0.9.1 ------- - Switched to Lua (http://www.lua.org/) for project script parsing. - Add support for custom project options. - Changed 'type' to 'kind' to avoid conflict with Lua function of the same name. - Changed 'conexe' to 'exe' because I liked it better. - Changed 'library' to 'dll' for C# projects to keep things consistent. ------- 0.9.0 ------- - Initial public release.