cxon -- C++ builder configured with JSON

Important

• cxon is still in development, and the configrantion field is not stable yet.

Installation

• Build and insall from cargo

cargo install cxon

• [Install directly from github release](https: //github.com/CoraBlack/cxon/releases)

cxon.json schema support

{
    // beginning your cxon with field $schema to get cxon competition intellisence
    "$schema": "https://corablack.github.io/cxon_schema/cxon.schema.json"

    // other config
}

the schema service is deployed here

Features(Order by priority)

• Build project with compiler and linker by cxon.json immediately.(unsupport custom)
• Build cache
• Mult-thread build.
• Mutiple build target type.
• cxon.json schema support
• Export compile_commands.json
• Debug field support(Only debug currently).
• Submodule support.
• Multiple compile targets.
• Platform-specific configuration.

What is the goal for cxon?

We want to provide a build system that is easy to use and config for C++ beginners or who are not the programming prefessors, which can help them focus on their project and code instrendad of dealing with the build system configration.
We only require a small number of essential fields for cxon.json and make the build system configration as simple as possible.

cxon.json Example

{
    "project": "HelloWorld",    // (Required) project name
    "target_name": "hello",     // the final compiled product name, the default value is the project field
    "target_type": "execuable", // (Required) build type (execuable, static_lib, shared_lib, object_lib)
    "build_dir": "build",       // the directory storing intermediate compiled product
    "output_dir": "bin",        // the directory storing final compiled product

    "toolchain": "gnu",         // (unsupport) gnu, llvm, msvc only currently
    "cc": "",                   // (unsupport) custom c compiler
    "cxx": "",                  // (unsupport) custom c++ compiler

    "threads": 4,                       // count of build threads, the default value is number of your cpu - 1

    "flags": [                          // parameters for c and c++ compiler
        "-Wall",
        "-Wextra"
    ],

    "cflags": [                         // parameters for c compiler

    ],

    "cxxflags": [                       // parameters for c++ compiler

    ],

    "include": [                        // directories where the header files are
        
    ],

    "defines": [                        // defination for compiler

    ],

    "sources": [                        // (Required) source files which will be compiled
        "./main.cpp",
        "./func.cpp"
    ],

    "link": [                           // directories storing required libraries

    ],

    "libs": [                           // required libaries

    ]
}