qiBuild : the build framework

qiBuild is a generic framework that helps for managing several projects and their dependencies.

It comes with a set of tools:

qibuild : C++ compilation made easy

qiBuild aims to make compilation of your sources easy. It manages dependencies between projects and supports cross-compilation.

By default qiBuild uses libraries provided by your system, but you can also use qiToolchain to manage sets of pre-compiled packages (called toolchains) if you want. Cross-compilation is then just a matter of using a specific toolchain.

qiBuild is truly cross-platform: it is tested on Linux, Mac and Windows. Being based on the well-known CMake build system, it allows you to use your existing tools such as gcc, Make, or Visual Studio.

The qiBuild framework tries hard to stand out of your way: it remains close to standards, and will play nice with other build systems.

qiBuild is composed of two parts:

  • the qiBuild CMake framework, that simplifies authoring CMakeLists.txt.
  • the qibuild/qitoolchain command line tools, that helps build projects while taking dependencies into account and generate re-distributable binary packages

Is qibuild the only one build framework?

Of course not!

You can have a loot at

Going further with qibuild

Read more about qibuild in the Building C++ projects with qibuild, or follow the qibuild Programming guide

qisrc : Managing git projects

The motivation for qisrc is to make it possible to work with several git repositories at the same time.

Notes:
  • Yes, we are aware that git submodules exists, but we wanted something more flexible and easier to use
  • qisrc has more or less the same features than repo, (including gerrit support for code review), but, contrary to repo, it preserves a clean branch for you to work in and you can still use git normally

qidoc : Building documentation

qidoc is a small tool that helps you write documentation in sphinx or in doxygen, spread across several projects, while making sure you can generate re-locatable HTML documentation

qilinguist: Translating projects

qilinguist makes it easier to use gettext in a CMake-based project

qipy: QiBuild and Python

qipy makes it possible to use Python extensions written in C/C++ with qibuild with pure Python libraries.

Tutorial

See qipy-tutorial

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