amargo

The Rust Cargo tool but for your C or C++ projects

We all love cargo, having an idea, do cargo new, type our idea and cargo run, easy right (except for the compilation errors)?
Well... sometimes you want to do that in C or C++ but you have to create a Makefile, or use CMake or the cli, but in all these scenarios adding "tests/examples/benchs" is hard, so let's change that.

The philosophy of this project is from something simple then be able to expand to more complex stuff.

Get Started

To install the tool, clone this repository and run cargo install --path ., it should work ! (This solution is by waiting pushing real releases on this Github repository)

• Create a simple binary app : amargo new <my_app>
• Create a dynamic library : amargo new <my_lib> --dynamic
• Test stuff in "tests/" : amargo test
• Common build command : amargo build or amargo release
• Install locally : amargo install

Available Platforms

• ✔️ Windows 7,8,10,11
• ✔️ Linux
• ⚠️ macOS (not tested, should work)

Objectives

• ✔️ Minimal functional state (create binary project and compile with release or debug)
  
• ✔️ Support more compilers than clang
  
• ❌ Support more types of crate (dynamic libs, static libs, header only) IN PROGRESS
  
• ⚠️ Don't recompile if isn't needed and compile just the needed sources
  
  • ✔️ Incremental compilation for sources
    
  • ✔️ Incremental compilation for headers
    
  • ❌ Incremental compilation for source that include source (maybe forbid this?)
• ❌ Have some sort of config file (maybe using toml)
  
• ❌ Have an installation dir and command, like .amargo/bin and .amargo/lib
  
• ❌ Support tests
  
• ❌ Support C++
  
• ❌ Maybe external dependencies? (using vcpkg or a custom dependency system)
  
• ❌ The path of the project isn't the the project's name (example : "/a/b/c" -> "c")

Contribution

Please help me, through the code there are a lot of TODOs if you wanna help, but please comment a lot what you do and don't be afraid of creating new TODOs.