DABS is an automated building system for C/C++ projects. It uses ninja as a back-end to actually do the building of the files, while providing a cli interface for the generating of the file.

Some options and and parts in the configuration file overlap, where ever this is the case the arguments provided to the program will override the settings in the configuration file.

As mentioned before are manditory lists in configure.yaml. Optional added values are: includes, search_directories, libraries

| includes | List of folders to include | | search_directories | List of folders where libraries are located | | libraries | List of libraries to add | | cc | The cc compiler to be used, default: gcc | | cxx | The cxx compiler to be used, default: g++ | | source | Source folder, overridden by -s | | build_file | File that will be build by the program |

When creating DES, we found make to be archaic in it's use. After some research we decided on using ninja as our building system of choice. Ninja suggests creating an automated building system for generating it's build files.

We found this gist best suited our needs, so we used it as a template to create our own automated building system. You are now looking at the result.