SMK Software Build System

Overview

The SMK utility automatically determines, which pieces of a program need to be recompiled and issues commands to recompile them, in other words, it's a build tool (or make tool), superseding make. The SMK utility works by reading one or more smkfiles, usually named SMK. The smkfiles construct a database of targets, their prerequisites and the commands, used to update the targets, when one or more prerequisite changes.

Features

Advanced features of SMK include:

• Configuration files are Python sources.
• Global view of all dependencies.
• Support for parallel builds.
• Automatic dependency analysis for C/C++ with the ability to implement or modify it for any kind of file.
• Support for automatic cleaning.
• Intelligent detection and handling of common source and build directory dispositions.
• Caching of the dependency database.
• Support for installation and uninstallation.
• Extensibility of build tools and file types via Python classes.
• Platform independent naming of files.
• Cross-platform with cross-platform makefiles (GNU/Linux, Windows).

Download

The latest SMK release is version 0.4.2, released on April, 9th 2005. It is available for download here (.tar.gz, 94862 bytes).

Previous SMK releases include:

version 0.4.1

released on December, 20th 2004. It is available for download here (.tar.gz, 94639 bytes).

version 0.4

released on December, 12th 2004. It is available for download here (.tar.gz, 88560 bytes).

version 0.3.1

released on November, 22nd 2004. It is available for download here (.tar.gz, 81313 bytes).

version 0.3

released on November, 19th 2004. It is available for download here (.tar.gz, 73973 bytes).

version 0.2

released on November, 12th 2004. It is available for download here (.tar.gz, 72451 bytes).

Documentation

The User's Guide, consisting of a tutorial and a reference manual is avalilable here (single XHTML file, 134774 bytes). .

Mailing lists

There are two SMK mailing lists:

• The smk-user mailing list is for discussion about development with SMK. Subscribe here .
• The smk-dev mailing list is for discussion about development of SMK. Subscribe here .

Development

The SMK development takes place on Gna!, project SMK.

SMK uses the GNU Arch software configuration management system. To retrieve the development sources from the GNU Arch archive you need to:

• Register the SMK archive:

  tla register-archive http://arch.gna.org/smk/2004
  	

• Checkout SMK sources:

  tla get velco@home--smk-2004/smk--main--0.4
  	

For further instructions on using GNU Arch check out the GNU Arch Tutorial .

The important branches in the archive currently are:

smk--main--0.4

the main development branch

smk--main--0.3

previous main development branch (sealed)

smk--release--0.3.1

release tag

smk--release--0.4

release tag

smk--release--0.4.1

release tag

smk--release--0.4.2

release tag

GPG Key

The primary author of SMK is Momchil Velikov, velco at gna dot org. The SMK releases, as well as the GNU Arch changesets are signed with the following GPG key:

You can retrieve the key from a keyserver with:

gpg --recv-keys A354359A
    

Copyright (C) 2004 Momchil Velikov. All rights reserved.

Last modified: Wed Jan 18 18:40:01 EET 2006