By Alex Free
EzRe (Easy Release) provides a simple and sane build system for Linux (i386 and x86_64) and Windows (i686 and x86_64) targets, tailored to rapid development and deployment of C/C++ programs from a Linux OS. Consisting of a generalized GNU Makefile configured by a user-edited variables.mk file, it can easily be expanded to work for other languages, architectures, and operating systems. EZRE has been written in a way to minimize the amount of user-supplied information required to build all the packages and releases for all these systems.
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The only pre-requisite is having GNUMake installed.
Installation consist of changing into your source directory, and executing a command.
No need to write or edit a Makefile for most use cases.
No need to write or edit a “how to build” document for most use cases, as a generic build.md is provided.
Specify build dependencies for various package managers. Currently both dnf and apt are supported.
Generate .deb packages (i386 and x86_64) for Debian based Linux distributions.
Generate .rpm packages (i386 and x86_64) for Redhat based Linux distributions).
Generate portable release .zip files for Windows (i686 and x86_64) and Linux (i386 and x86_64).
Passes a VERSION string to source files (no need to edit the version number directly in source files).
Support for building libraries and linking them with the target executable.
Highly configurable, expandable, and hackable.
Changes:
Added support for building .rpm package files for i386 and x86_64 Linux.
Added .rpm release of EzRe itself.
Added sanity checks for if required variables are not set.
Changed some variables for naming consistency.
Added executable stripping by default.
Removed ezre-dl command variant,
The ezre command now prompts you for info so that it can create the control-i386, control-x86_64, ezre.spec, and variables.mk files for you with your project information automatically.
ezre-v1.0.3.zip Portable zip release for Linux
ezre-v1.0.3.deb Portable deb release for Linux
ezre-1.0.3-1.noarch.rpm Portable rpm release for Linux
Note: Currently, EzRe expects a Linux x86_64 host system.
1) Change into your source directory.
2) Execute the ezre command.
3) Enter any information prompted by the ezre command related to your project.
4) Type make to build your software. Type make all to build your software for all targets (see build.md).
For most use cases, you do not need to edit the Makefile or variables.mk at all! Additionally, build.md has been written in a generic way, so that in most cases you don’t need to write docs on how to build your software using the EZRE build system if you don’t want to.
The example directory contains a test use case for EzRe (hello world in C). You can get a grasp of what is possible by trying it out.
EzRe is released with the 3-BSD license, see license.md.