# premake/premake-core

Premake

Repository: https://github.com/premake/premake-core
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/premake-core
Homepage: https://premake.github.io/
Language: C
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: premake, c, lua, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:37:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 55, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4183, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 221, "gap_med": 61.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3631, forks 651 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:12.053582+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: build-tool, cli, configuration-management, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cli, cpp, c
- tags: lua-scripting, project-generation, visual-studio, xcode, gnu-make, c-plus-plus, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- premake/premake-core (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:12.053582+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:53.100582+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/premake/premake-core (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:12.053582+00:00, sha 11ba0a26a276)
  - homepage: https://premake.github.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:26:21.746607+00:00, sha 9863863d5eca)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.