Show HN: Beast – A Build System

Re:Show HN: Beast – A Build System by gaurav1804 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:37AM (#31986542)

I'm not really sure what you are pointing at here. But if you are suggesting to have a single C file that has configurations, dependencies and commands to be run while building your project, then that is not a very good idea. Simply because.... we may not even want to use gcc to build our projects.

We may want a more suitable tool that is first of all more user-friendly (like Beast), allows you flexibility in defining custom tasks (like Beast does).

Secondly, we simply may not have gcc to compile the all.c file (as mentioned in comments below). We just want a unified tool (an CLI preferably) that does all this for us. This is what Beast does. Make and Ninja are long standing build systems that prove my point.

Plus, you get Beast binary as a standalone executable. Check it out here: https://github.com/GauravDawra/Beast/releases/tag/v1.1.0

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Re:Show HN: Beast – A Build System by JonChesterfield on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:40PM (#32005798)

I mean a single beast.c that contains absolutely everything required to build a static executable beast which is your build tool. Ideally in C that multiple compilers can deal with. Building that source during dev and checking it in makes bootstrap trivial for users.

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