premake/premake-core

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3631 stars · 651 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Premake is a command-line build configuration tool that reads a Lua-scripted project definition and generates project files for toolsets like Visual Studio, Xcode, GNU Make, and CodeLite. It lets developers describe a software project once and build it everywhere across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Use cases

• generate visual studio project files from a script
• cross-platform c++ build configuration
• replace hand-maintained makefiles
• generate xcode project files
• describe a c++ project once and build on windows mac and linux
• script build configuration with lua

When to choose

• you maintain a cross-platform C/C++ project targeting multiple IDEs and build systems
• you want build configuration as code using a full scripting language
• you need to generate Visual Studio, Xcode, or Makefile projects from a single source

When to avoid

• your project already uses CMake and its ecosystem of find modules
• you only target a single platform and toolset
• you need a build system that compiles code itself rather than generating project files

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

build-tool cli configuration-management developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform windows cli cpp c lua-scripting project-generation visual-studio xcode gnu-make c-plus-plus command-line macos linux

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