Faff¶
Faff is a Make build tool substitute written in Python. An input file similar
to a Makefile defines rules used to update arbitrary targets that can have
file or other rule dependencies.
Quickstart¶
Compile and execute a C hello world program. Create a directory populated with
files from the gcc_hello_world example. The example assumes that the gcc
command is available in the system path and compiles source files for the host
platform.
$ mkdir -p gcc_hello_world
$ cd gcc_hello_world
$ # Copy example files.
Run the default rule of the input file. Similarly to Make, running faff
will run the all default rule.
$ faff
faff: gcc gcc_hello_world/main.c -o gcc_hello_world/build/main
faff: main
Hello, world!
faff: `all` updated (1/1 0.694s)