easy_compile

easy_compile is a Python script for compiling and running single source C++ programs. It runs on Python from 2.6 to 3.5 and has no external dependencies.

usage: ec [-h] [-w] [-r] [-3] [-f | -C] [-H] [-c | -a | -n] [-v | -q] [-s] [-A PARAMS]
          filename

Compile & Run a single source file C++ program

positional arguments:
  filename              file to be compiled

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -w, --working         set the working directory to the source file directory
  -r, --release         compile in release mode
  -3, --cpp03           follow the C++03 language standard (default is C++11)
  -f, --force           recompile even if up-to-date
  -C, --no-cache        do not use caching at all
  -H, --no-header       do not process headers
  -c, --compile-only    do not run the executable
  -a, --always-report   always print exit code, even if it is zero
  -n, --never-report    never print exit code
  -v, --verbose         produce more output
  -q, --quiet           produce less output
  -s, --stay            wait for any key to be pressed at the end
  -A, --params PARAMS   additional arguments passed to the compiler

g++ / -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wformat=2 -Wfloat-equal -Wlogical-op
-Wredundant-decls -Wconversion -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wuseless-cast
-Wno-shadow -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-local-typedefs
-Wno-long-long -DLOCAL_PROJECT / -g -DLOCAL_DEBUG -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG
-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG_PEDANTIC / -O2

Compiling the script itself

If you really need to, you can even compile it with Cython: just run python waf configure build. --check-c-compiler=... and --python=... switches may be used to specify the exact compiler and interpreter.

Do not expect a huge speed burst however, as the script wasn't specifically optimized for that.