Important: this is just a proof of concept! PRs welcome.

Auto-builds a project if convention is followed:

• All .c(pp) files (except "root" file) have a header file (.h or .hpp).
• All header files have a .c(pp) file of same name
• There exists a single "root" file which includes headers in its dependencies

Like in case of Cargo, the build configuration is in Gocar.toml See the example

1. Make sure you have Rust installed. This tool uses impl Trait feature, so you need a recent version of the Rust compiler. Use rustup update to update if you have old version already.
2. git clone https://github.com/Kixunil/gocar
3. cd gocar
4. cargo build --release
5. cd example_c_project
6. ../target/release/gocar build

The last command builds the example_c_project, so you can run it with ./example

• Cleaner code, no hard-coding
• Support for headers without c(pp) files
• Platform-dependent compilation (e.g. have a header named "foo.h" and implementations "foo-linux.c", "foo-macos.c")
• Pre-build and post-build scripts
• Dependency management
• Features (like in Rust)
• Options (like features, but not additive)