Premake 5.0 alpha 8

Changes since the previous release:

• New API: characterset()
• New API: editorintegration()
• New API: largeaddressaware()
• New: Visual Studio projects now default to Unicode
• New: Utility and Makefile project support for GMake exporter
• New: Updated Curl to 7.45.0
• Fix: Absolute path handling and error reporting in tokens
• Fix: Limit use of TargetMachine to static resource library projects
• Fix: Embed minified scripts by default, rather than bytecode
• Fix: os.isfile() now detects Windows symbolic links
• Fix: Correct handling of DOS environment variables in paths
• Fix: Buffer overflow in buffered writes of large strings
• Fix: Improved handling of absolute vs. relative path tokens
• Fix: --cc command line option works again (stream009)
• Fix: Use relative paths for PCH in Makefiles (stream009)

IMPORTANT: Please download our source code package premake-5.0.0-alpha8-src.zip and NOT the automatically created GitHub packages at the bottom of the list.

The GitHub packages do not include the submodule source code, the pre-generated profile files, or the embedded scripts.

Premake 5.0 alpha 7

Changes since the previous release:

• New API: additionalusingdirectories()
• New API: largeaddressaware()
• New: Embed bytecode to enable better debugging information
• New: Display elapsed time at completion
• New: Utility project support for Makefiles
• New: Enabled SSL support in HTTP functions
• Fix: Reduce memory usage during baking
• Fix: Improve performance of wildcard processing
• Fix: Preserve environment in recursive token expansion
• Fix: Added missing defines in bootstrap script
• Fix: Remove /usr/lib64 directories from Mac builds
• Fix: Added newline after UTF-8 marker in Visual Studio projects
• Fix: Duplicate escaping on include directories in Makefiles
• Fix: os.isdir() now works with Windows symbolic links
• Fix: Use correct path separators in C# response files

IMPORTANT: Please download our source code package premake-5.0.0-alpha7-src.zip and NOT the automatically created GitHub packages at the bottom of the list.

The GitHub packages do not include the submodule source code, the pre-generated profile files, or the embedded scripts.

Premake 5.0 alpha 6

Changes since the previous release:

• New API: ignoredefaultlibraries()
• New: Support LLVM platform toolset in Visual Studio
• New: Add framework folder path support
• Fix: Improved path.normalize() handling of DOS drive letters (StiX)
• Fix: os.match...() now supports more complex patterns
• Fix: Only generate project files if changed
• Fix: Improve handling of user platform names in Visual Studio
• Fix: Duplicate ".lib" extensions in Visual Studio
• Fix: Improve handling of mixed case command line options
• Fix: Remove /E option from Windows copy operations
• Fix: Multiple externalproject() calls to same project
• Fix: Improved determinism of generated project elements
• Fix: Set platform toolset for emtpty Visual Studio projects
• Fix: Better ".." handling for path.join()

IMPORTANT: Please download our source code package premake-5.0.0-alpha6-src.zip and NOT the automatically created GitHub packages at the bottom of the list.

The GitHub packages do not include the submodule source code, the pre-generated profile files, or the embedded scripts.

Premake 5.0 alpha 5

Changes since the previous release:

• New: Rename solution() to workspace()
• New API: customtoolnamespace() (tbasnoopy)
• New API: debuggertype() (tbasnoopy)
• New API: entrypoint() (Blizzard)
• New API: exceptionhandling() and rtti() (Blizzard)
• New API: http.get() and http.download() (Blizzard)
• New API: inlining() (Blizzard)
• New API: zip.extract() (Blizzard)
• New: require() now accepts optional version ranges
• New: Preloaded modules now return a "should load" test function
• New: Added support for IDL files in VC 2010+ (rhuvendiek)
• New: Added file.directory to token environment (Gabi Davar)
• New: Solution configurations are now fully baked (Blizzard)
• New: Enabled per-file configuration queries (Blizzard)
• New: Added more table functions (Blizzard)
• New: Added more values for floatingpoint()
• Fix: Enabled link-time optimization for Clang and GCC
• Fix: Module loader now reports script errors correctly (Tim Wharton)
• Fix: Wrap makefile targets in quotes (leeonix)
• Fix: Provide better default target directories (Blizzard)
• Fix: Escape backslashes in tokens (Damien Courtois)
• Fix: No longer generates containers marked as external
• Fix: Re-enable validation of supported action features (Blizzard)
• Fix: Match Visual C PDB output to target path (leeonix)
• Fix: Remove "." and ".." when joining paths (multiple contributors)
• Fix: Remove trailing newlines from os.outputof() (Tim Wharton)
• Fix: Improve token handling (multiple contributors)

IMPORTANT: Please download our source code package premake-5.0.0-alpha5-src.zip and NOT the automatically created GitHub packages at the bottom of the list.

The GitHub packages do not include the submodule source code, the pre-generated profile files, or the embedded scripts.

Premake 5.0 alpha 4

Changes since the previous release

• New: CodeLite support
• New: D language support
• New: MonoDevelop support
• New API: buildlog()
• New API: callingconvention() (Tim Wharton)
• New API: os.writefile_ifnotequal()
• New API: sysincludedirs()
• New API: syslibdirs()
• New: toolset() can now specify a version number
• New: Default values and categories for command line options
• New: Add bootstrapping script for Git repository (Tim Wharton)
• Fix: Modules are now loaded correctly in all situations (Damien Courtois)
• Fix: Make Visual Studio debug commands absolute (amc522)
• Fix: Allow tokens in vpaths()
• Fix: Silence xcopy output from {COPY} command token (StiX)
• Fix: Remove ".." sequences in path.join()
• Fix: Allow CC and CXX overrides from command line (Tim Wharton)
• Fix: Enable solution level filtering on system values
• Fix: Make configuration flag mapping order deterministic
• Fix: Map "Win32" to x86 architecture for Visual Studio
• Fix: Correct formatting for Visual Studio rule paths
• Fix: Make project APIs consistently lowercase
• Fix: Disable SSE/SSE2 flags for Visual Studio 64-bit builds
• Fix: io.open() now creates directory append ("a") mode