whip-up

whip-up is a build system with strong typing. .whip files are effectively arbitrary rust code*.

• = With the exception of the Compiler and Target struct. Which are part of the internals of whip-up.

Example

.whip file

let gpp = Compiler {
    path: PathBuf::from("/usr/bin/g++"),
};

let example_program = Target {
    name: "example_program",
    compiler: gpp,
    files: vec![
        PathBuf::from("main.cpp"),
        PathBuf::from("foo/bar.hpp")
    ]
};

example_program.build()

Output g++ command which gets run

/usr/bin/g++ -o example_project main.cpp foo/bar.hpp

Usage

Say we have the following folder structure and a .whip file with the same contents as the example above.

projects/
|
└─── examples/
     |
     └─── foo/
     |    └─── bar.hpp
     |
     |    example.whip
     └─── main.cpp

Running whip-up examples/ from the projects folder will result in a binary being built in the examples folder

projects/
|
└─── examples/
     |
     └─── foo/
     |    └─── bar.hpp
     |
     |    example.whip
     |    example_program
     └─── main.cpp

About

I started working on this project during the COVID-19 pandemic. I was bored inside and decided to do something productive.

Currently this project is incredibly bare-bones and rather hacky. It should go without saying, but whip-up is not recommended for use in production.