Changelog

v2.9.7

New features

• #5813: Add before_config and after_config for rule
• #5848: Support custom MSVC build tools, e.g. PortableBuildTools and msvc-wine
• #5880: Use msvc package to build project
• #5884: Add installtips for package
• #5894: Add package.merge_staticlibs policy to merge package libs
• #5948: Add lua.native-object rule
• #5911: Support for nuget packages

Changes

• #5817: Improve default pic for packages
• #5869: Add libstdc++ standard library modules support for gcc
• #5923: Solve the package version and configs conflict

Bugs fixed

• #5856: Fix compile c++modules for clang
• #5858: Fix the precompiled header for gcc

v2.9.6

New features

• #5527: Add set_policy("compatibility.version", "3.0") to preview v3.0 features.
• #5649: Add package.check_fcsnippets

Changes

• #5631: Add as_needed for add_linkgroups
• #5702: Improve hash module
• #5688: Improve hashset module
• #5711: Support to parse include deps for sdcc
• #5727: Improve configs for add_requires
• #5762: Improve bin2c speed

Bugs fixed

• #5645: Fix xmake watch for linux
• #5686: Fix module scanning

v2.9.5

New features

• #5462: Add xmake l cli.bisect
• #5488: Support for using cosmocc to build xmake binary
• #5491: Provide single xmake binary with embeded lua files
• #5580: Add @builtin/xrepo to add envs for xrepo env shell

Changes

• #5507: Use treeless to improve git.clone
• #5536: Add jar generate in swig mode
• #5573: Improve vsxmake generator performance
• #5601: Improve utils.symbols.export_all rule to filter sourcefile path

Bugs fixed

• #4750: Fix compile_commands generator for xmake tests
• #5465: Fix lock package requires
• #4760: Fix distcc client issue

v2.9.4

New features

• #5278: Add build.intermediate_directory policy to disable and custom intermediate directory
• #5313: Add windows arm/arm64ec support
• #5296: Add Intel LLVM Fortran Compiler support
• #5384: Add add_bindirs for package

Changes

• #5280: Add missing C++20 Modules file extension
• #5251: Update 7z/curl for windows installer
• #5286: Improve json to parse hex string
• #5302: Improve Vala support
• #5335: Improve xmake install and xpack, Add set_prefixdir api for target
• #5387: Improve xmake test
• #5376: Improve module objectfiles handling and moduleonly package

Bugs Fixed

• #5288: Fix xmake test for unity build
• #5270: Fix pch/include for gcc/clang
• #5276: Fix find vc6
• #5259: Fix the failure of the command line completion function

v2.9.3

New features

• #4637: Add mix generator for xpack
• #5107: Add deb generator for xpack
• #5148: Add on_source in package

Changes

• #5156: Improve to install cargo packages for rust

Bugs fixed

• #5176: Fix VS toolset v144

v2.9.2

New features

• #5005: Show all apis
• #5003: Add build.fence policy
• #5060: Support Verilator target build to static library
• #5074: Add xrepo download command to download package source
• #5086: Add check support for package
• #5103: Add qt ts files building
• #5104: Call where in find_program

Changes

• #5077: Use x64 host compiler for msvc when building x86 target
• #5109: Support runpath/rpath for add_rpathdirs
• #5132: Improve ifort/icc/icx support on windows

Bugs Fixed

• #5059: Fix load huge targets stuck
• #5029: Fix crash on termux

v2.9.1

New features

• #4874: Add Harmony SDK support
• #4889: Add signal module to register signal handler in lua
• #4925: Add native modules support
• #4938: Support for cppfront/h2

Changes

• Improve packages to support for clang-cl
• #4893: Improve rc includes deps
• #4928: Improve to build and link speed
• #4931: Update pdcurses
• #4973: Improve to select script

Bugs fixed

• #4882: Fix install deps with --group
• #4877: Fix compile error for xpack with unity build
• #4887: Fix object deps

v2.8.9

New features

• #4843: Endianness/Byte-order detection on build machine

Changes

• #4798: Improve wasi sdk detect
• #4772: Improve tools.cmake to support vs2022 preview (v144)
• #4813: Add gb2312 encoding
• #4864: Improve to extract symbols for gdb
• #4831: Allow target:fileconfig() for headerfiles
• #4846: Improve to show progress

Bugs Fixed

• Fix select_script match pattern
• #4763: Fix
• #4807: Fix nimble::find_package
• #4857: Fix parse basic options

v2.8.8

Changes

• Add package:check_sizeof()

Bugs Fixed

• #4774: Fix android symbol strip
• #4769: Fix cross toolchain and format
• #4776: Fix soname for linux
• #4638: Fix vsxmake with --menu config

v2.8.7

New features

• #4544: Support to wait process timeout for xmake test
• #4606: Add add_versionfiles api in package
• #4709: Add cosmocc toolchain support
• #4715: Add is_cross() api in description scope
• #4747: Add build.always_update_configfiles policy

Changes

• #4575: Check invalid scope name
• Add more loong64 support
• Improve dlang/dmd support for frameworks
• #4571: Improve xmake test output
• #4609: Improve to detect vs build tool envirnoments
• #4614: Support android ndk 26b
• #4473: Enable warning output by default
• #4477: Improve runtimes to support libc++/libstdc++
• #4657: Improve to select script pattern
• #4673: Refactor modules support
• #4746: Add native modules support for cmake generator

Bugs Fixed

• #4596: Fix remote build cache
• #4689: Fix deps inherit

v2.8.6

New features

• Add network.mode policy
• #1433: Add xmake pack command to generate NSIS/zip/tar.gz/rpm/srpm/runself packages like cmake/cpack
• #4435: Support batchsize for UnityBuild in Group Mode
• #4485: Support package.install_locally
• Support NetBSD

Changes

• #4484: Improve swig rule
• Improve Haiku support

Bugs fixed

• #4372: Fix protobuf rules
• #4439: Fix asn1c rules

v2.8.5

New features

• #1452: Improve link mechanism and order
• #1438: Support code amalgamation
• #3381: Add xmake test support
• #4276: Support custom scope api
• #4286: Add Apple XROS support
• #4345: Support check sizeof
• #4369: Add windows.manifest.uac policy

Changes

• #4284: Improve builtin includes

Bugs fixed

• #4256: Fix intellisense for vsxmake/c++modules

v2.8.3

New features

• #4122: Support Lua Debugger (EmmyLua)
• #4132: Support cppfront
• #4147: Add hlsl2spv rule
• #4226: Support sanitizers for package and policy
• Add lib.lua.package module
• Add run.autobuild policy
• Add global policies xmake g --policies=

Changes

• #4119: Improve to support emcc toolchain and emscripten package
• #4154: Add xmake -r --shallow target to rebuild target without deps
• Add global ccache storage directory
• #4137: Support Qt6 for Wasm
• #4173: Add recheck argument to on_config
• #4200: Improve remote build to support debugging xmake source code.
• #4209: Add extra and pedantic warnings

Bugs fixed

• #4110: Fix extrafiles
• #4115: Fix compile_commands generator for clangd
• #4199: Fix compile_commands generator for c++ modules
• Fix os.mv fail on window
• #4214: Fix rust workspace build error

v2.8.2

New features

• #4002: Add soname and version support
• #1613: Add avx512 and sse4.2 for add_vectorexts
• #2471: Add set_encodings to set source/target encodings
• #4071: Support the stm8 assembler on the sdcc toolchain.
• #4101: Add force includes for c/c++
• #2384: Add extrafiles for vs/vsxmake generator

Changes

• #3960: Improve msys2/crt64 support
• #4032: Remove some old deprecated apis
• Improve to upgrade vcproj files in tools.msbuild
• Support add_requires("xmake::xxx") package
• #4049: Improve rust to support cross-compilation
• Improve clang modules support

Bugs fixed

• Fix exit all child processes on macOS/Linux

v2.8.1

New features

• #3821: Add longpath option for windows installer
• #3828: Add support for zypper package manager
• #3871: Improve tools.msbuild to support for upgrading vsproj
• #3148: Support grpc for protobuf
• #3889: Support to add library path for add_links
• #3912: Add set_pmxxheader to support objc precompiled header
• add_links support library file path

Changes

• #3752: Improve os.getenvs for windows
• #3371: Improve tools.cmake to support ninja generator for wasm
• #3777: Improve to find package from pkg-config
• #3815: Improve tools.xmake to pass toolchains for windows
• #3857: Improve to generate compile_commands.json
• #3892: Improve to search packages from description
• #3916: Improve to build swift program, support for multiple modules
• Update lua runtime to 5.4.6

Bugs fixed

• #3755: Fix find_tool from xmake/packages
• #3787: Fix packages from conan 2.x
• #3839: Fix vs_runtime for conan 2.x

v2.7.9

New features

• #3613: Add wasm.preloadfiles configuration for wasm
• #3703: Support for conan >=2.0.5

Changes

• #3669: Improve cmake generator to support add_cxflags with the given tool
• #3679: Improve xrepo clean
• #3662: Improve cmake/make generator for lex/yacc project
• #3697: Improve trybuild/cmake
• #3730: Improve c++modules package installation

Bugs fixed

• #3596: Fix check_cxxfuncs and check_cxxsnippets
• #3603: Fix xmake update
• #3614: Fix qt envirnoment when running target
• #3628: Fix msys2/mingw setenv and os.exec issue
• Fix setenv for msys/mingw

v2.7.8

New features

• #3518: Profile compile and link performance
• #3522: Add has_cflags, has_xxx for target
• #3537: Add --fix for clang.tidy checker

Changes

• #3433: Improve to build Qt project on msys2/mingw64 and wasm
• #3419: Support fish shell envirnoment
• #3455: Dlang incremental build support
• #3498: Improve to bind package virtual envirnoments
• #3504: Add swig java support
• #3508: Improve trybuild/cmake to support for switching toolchain
• disable build cache for msvc, because msvc's preprocessor is too slow.

Bugs fixed

• #3436: Fix complete and menuconf
• #3463: Fix c++modules cache issue
• #3545: Fix parsedeps for armcc

v2.7.7

New features

• Add Haiku support
• #3326: Add xmake check to check project code (clang-tidy) and configuration
• #3332: add custom http headers when downloading packages

Changes

• #3318: Improve dlang toolchains
• #2591: Improve target analysis
• #3342: Improve to configure working and build directories
• #3373: Improve std modules support for clang-17
• Improve to strip/optimization for dmd/ldc2

Bugs fixed

• #3317: Fix languages for qt project.
• #3321: Fix dependfile when generating configiles
• #3296: Fix build error on macOS arm64

v2.7.6

New features

• #3228: Add support of importing modules from packages
• #3257: Add support for iverilog and verilator
• Support for xp and vc6.0
• #3214: Completion on xrepo install packages

Changes

• #3255: Improve clang libc++ module support
• Support for compiling xmake using mingw
• Improve compatibility issues with xmake running on win xp
• Add pure lua json implementation instead of lua-cjson if the external dependencies are enabled

Bugs fixed

• #3229: Fix find rc.exe for vs2015
• #3271: Fix macro defines with spaces
• #3273: Fix nim link error
• #3286: Fix compile_commands for clangd

v2.7.5

New features

• #3201: Add completer and xrepo complete
• #3233: Add MASM32 sdk toolchain

Changes

• #3216: Add intel one api toolkits detection
• #3020: Add --lsp=clangd to improve to generate compile_commands.json
• #3215: Add includedirs and defines to c51
• #3251: Improve to build zig and c program

Bugs fixed

• #3203: Fix compile_commands
• #3222: Fix precompiled headers in ObjC
• #3240: Fix target run with single arguments
• #3238: Fix clang module mapper

v2.7.4

New features

• #3049: Add xmake format plugin
• Add plugin.compile_commands.autoupdate rule
• #3172: Add xmake.sh
• #3168: add support of C++23 standard modules on msvc

Changes

• #3056: Improve zig support
• #3060: Improve to detect msys2 for clang toolchains envirnoment
• #3071: Support rc for llvm/clang toolchain
• #3122: Generate dependencies of preprocessed modules to avoid importing #ifdef import
• #3125: Compile private C++20 modules
• #3133: Add support of internal partitions
• #3146: Add default components for packages
• #3192: JSON output for auto complete

Bugs fixed

• Fix requires-lock bug
• #3065: Fix missing package dependences
• #3082: Fix build.ninja generator
• #3092: Fix xrepo add-repo error handing
• #3013: Fix and support windows UNC path
• #2902: Fix file not access by another process occupied
• #3074: Fix CMakelists generator
• #3141: Fix import order on GCC and force it on clang and msvc #3141
• Fix tools/xmake package build directory
• #3159: Fix compile_commands for CLion

v2.7.3

New features

• A new optional configuration syntax. It is LSP friendly, automatically calls target_end() to achieve scope isolation.
• #2944: Add gnu-rm.binary and gnu-rm.static rules and tests for embed project
• #2636: Support package components
• Support armasm/armasm64 for msvc
• #3023: Add support for debugging with renderdoc
• #3022: Add flags for specific compilers and linkers
• #3025: C++ exception enabled/disabled switch method
• #3017: Support ispc compiler

Changes

• #2925: Improve doxygen plugin
• #2948: Support OpenBSD
• Add xmake g --insecure-ssl=y option to disable ssl certificate when downloading packages
• #2971: Stabilize vs and vsxmake project generation
• #3000: Incremental compilation support for modules
• #3016: Improve clang/msvc to better support std modules

Bugs fixed

• #2949: Fix vs group
• #2952: Fix armlink for long args
• #2954: Fix c++ module partitions path issue
• #3033: Detect circular modules dependency

v2.7.2

New features

• #2140: Support Windows Arm64
• #2719: Add package.librarydeps.strict_compatibility to strict compatibility for package linkdeps
• #2810: Support os.execv to run shell script file
• #2817: Improve rule to support dependence order
• #2824: Pass cross-file to meson.install and trybuild
• #2856: Improve to debug package using the debug source directory
• #2859: Improve trybuild to build 3rd source library using xmake-repo scripts
• #2879: Support for dynamic creation and injection of rules and targets in script scope
• #2374: Allow xmake package to embed rules and scripts
• Add clang-cl toolchain

Changes

• #2745: Improve os.cp to support symlink
• #2773: Improve vcpkg packages to support freebsd
• #2778: Improve Improve xrepo.env for target
• #2783: Add digest algorithm option for wdk signtool
• #2787: Improve json to support empty array
• #2782: Improve to find matlab and runtime
• #2793: Improve mconfdialog
• #2804: Support macOS arm64/x86_64 cross-compilation for installing packages
• #2809: Improve cl optimization option
• Improve trybuild for meson/cmake/autoconf
• #2846: Improve to generate config files
• #2866: Better control over the order of execution of rules

Bugs fixed

• #2740: Fix build c++ modules stuck and slower for msvc
• #2875: Fix build linux driver error
• #2885: Fix pch not found with msvc/ccache

v2.7.1

New features

• #2555: Add fwatcher module and xmake watch plugin command
• Add xmake service --pull 'build/**' outputdir to pull the given files in remote server
• #2641: Improve C++20 modules, support headerunits and project generators
• #2679: Support Mac Catalyst

Changes

• #2576: More flexible package fetching from cmake
• #2577: Improve add_headerfiles(), add {install = false} support
• #2603: Disable -fdirectives-only for ccache by default
• #2580: Set stdout to line buffering
• #2571: Improve task scheduling for parallel and distributed compilation based on memory/cpu usage
• #2410: Improve cmakelists generator
• #2690: Improve to pass toolchains to packages
• #2686: Support for incremental compilation and parse header file deps for keil/armcc/armclang
• #2562: Improve include deps for rc.exe
• Improve the default parallel building jobs number

Bugs fixed

• #2614: Fix building submodules2 tests for msvc
• #2620: Fix build cache for incremental compilation
• #2177: Fix python.library segmentation fault for macosx
• #2708: Fix link error for mode.coverage rule
• Fix rpath for macos/iphoneos frameworks and application

v2.6.9

New features

• #2474: Add icx and dpcpp toolchains
• #2523: Improve LTO support
• #2527: Add set_runargs api

Changes

• Improve tools.cmake to support wasm
• #2491: Fallback to local compiler/cache from remote if server is unreachable
• #2514: Disable Unity Build for project generator
• #2473: Improve apt::find_package to find it from pc files
• #2512: Improve remote service to support timeout configuration

Bugs fixed

• #2488: Fix remote compilation from windows to linux
• #2504: Fix remote build bug on msys2/cygwin
• #2525: Fix install package deps and stuck
• #2557: Fix cmake.find_package links bug
• Fix cache-induced path conflicts in preprocessed files

v2.6.8

New features

• #2447: Add qt.qmlplugin rule and support of qmltypesregistrar
• #2446: Support target group for xmake install
• #2469: Generate vcpkg-configuration.json

Changes

• Add preprocessor.linemarkers policy to disable linemarkers to speed up ccache/distcc
• #2389: Improve xmake run to parallel running of targets
• #2417: Switch the default value of option/showmenu
• #2440: Improve package installation error messages
• #2438: Make sure the solution and project file unchanged by sorting those tables
• #2434: Improve plugins manager, allow to handle multiples plugin repositories
• #2421: Improve config option menu
• #2425: Add preprocessor.gcc.directives_only policy
• #2455: Improve optimize options for emcc
• #2467: Add compile fallback for msvc/ccache
• #2452: Add build.warning policy

Bugs Fixed

• #2435: fix the search bug when the package name has an extension name.
• #2445: Fix ccache bug for msvc
• #2452: Fix warnings output for ccache

v2.6.7

New features

• #2318: Add xmake f --policies= config argument to modify project policies

Changes

• fallback to source code build if the precompiled package is error
• #2387: Improve pkgconfig and find_package
• Add build.ccache policy

Bugs fixed

• #2382: Fix headeronly package configs
• #2388: Fix path bug
• #2385: Fix cmake/find_package
• #2395: Fix c++modules
• Fix find_qt bug

v2.6.6

New features

• #2327: Support nvc/nvc++/nvfortran in nvidia-hpc-sdk
• Add path instance interfaces
• #2344: Add lz4 compress module
• #2349: Add keil/c51 project support
• #274: Distributed compilation support
• Use builtin local cache instead of ccache

Changes

• #2309: Support user authorization for remote compilation
• Improve remote compilation to support lz4 compression

Bugs fixed

• Fix lua stack when select package versions

v2.6.5

New features

• #2138: Support template package
• #2185: Add --appledev=simulator to improve apple simulator support
• #2227: Improve cargo package with Cargo.toml file
• Improve add_requires to support git commit as version
• #622: Support remote compilation
• #2282: Add add_filegroups to support file group for vs/vsxmake/cmake generator

Changes

• #2137: Improve path module
• Reduce 50% xmake binary size on macOS
• Improve tools/autoconf,cmake to support toolchain switching.
• #2221: Improve registry api to support unicode
• #2225: Support to parse import dependencies for protobuf
• #2265: Sort CMakeLists.txt
• Speed up os.files

Bugs fixed

• #2233: Fix c++ modules deps

v2.6.4

New features

• #2011: Support to inherit base package
• Support to build and run xmake on sparc, alpha, powerpc, s390x and sh4
• Add on_download for package()
• #2021: Support Swift for linux and windows
• #2024: Add asn1c support
• #2031: Support linker scripts and version scripts for add_files
• #2033: Catch ctrl-c to get current backtrace for debugging stuck
• #2059: Add xmake update --integrate to integrate for shell
• #2070: Add built-in xrepo environments
• #2117: Support to pass toolchains to package for other platforms
• #2121: Support to export the given symbols list

Changes

• #2036: Improve xrepo to install packages from configuration file, e.g. xrepo install xxx.lua
• #2039: Improve filter directory for vs generator
• #2025: Support phony and headeronly target for vs generator
• Improve to find vstudio and codesign speed
• #2077: Improve vs project generator to support cuda

Bugs fixed

• #2005: Fix path.extension
• #2008: Fix windows manifest
• #2016: Fix object filename confict for vs project generator

v2.6.3

New features

• #1298: Support vcpkg manifest mode and select version for package/install
• #1896: Add python.library rule to build pybind modules
• #1939: Add remove_files, remove_headerfiles and mark del_files as deprecated
• Made on_config as the official api for rule/target
• Add riscv32/64 support
• #1970: Add CMake wrapper for Xrepo C and C++ package manager.
• Add builtin github mirror pac files, xmake g --proxy_pac=github_mirror.lua

Changes

• #1923: Improve to build linux driver, support set custom linux-headers path
• #1962: Improve armclang toolchain to support to build asm
• #1959: Improve vstudio project generator
• #1969: Add default option description

Bugs fixed

• #1875: Fix deploy android qt apk issue
• #1973: Fix merge static archive

v2.6.2

New features

• #1902: Support to build linux kernel driver modules
• #1913: Build and run targets with given group pattern

Change

• #1872: Escape characters for set_configvar
• #1888: Improve windows installer to avoid remove other files
• #1895: Improve plugin.vsxmake.autoupdate rule
• #1893: Improve to detect icc and ifort toolchains
• #1905: Add support of external headers without experimental for msvc
• #1904: Improve vs201x generator
• Add XMAKE_THEME envirnoment variable to switch theme
• #1907: Add -f/--force to force to create project in a non-empty directory
• #1917: Improve to find_package and configurations

Bugs fixed

• #1885: Fix package:fetch_linkdeps
• #1903: Fix package link order

v2.6.1

New features

• #1799: Support mixed rust & c++ target and cargo dependences
• Add utils.glsl2spv rules to compile .vert/.frag shader files to spirv file and binary c header file

Changes

• Switch to Lua5.4 runtime by default
• #1776: Improve system::find_package, support to find package from envs
• #1786: Improve apt:find_package, support to find alias package
• #1819: Add precompiled header to cmake generator
• Improve C++20 module to support std libraries for msvc
• #1792: Add custom command in vs project generator
• #1835: Improve MDK program supports and add set_runtimes("microlib")
• #1858: Improve to build c++20 modules with libraries
• Add $XMAKE_BINARY_REPO and $XMAKE_MAIN_REPO repositories envs
• #1865: Improve openmp projects
• #1845: Install pdb files for static library

Bugs Fixed

• Fix semver to parse build string with zero prefix
• #50: Fix rule and build bpf program errors
• #1610: Fix xmake f --menu not responding in vscode and support ConPTY terminal virtkeys

v2.5.9

New features

• #1736: Support wasi-sdk toolchain
• Support Lua 5.4 runtime
• Add gcc-8, gcc-9, gcc-10, gcc-11 toolchains
• #1623: Support find_package from cmake
• #1747: Add set_kind("headeronly") for target to install files for headeronly library
• #1019: Support Unity build
• #1438: Support code amalgamation, xmake l cli.amalgamate
• #1765: Support nim language
• #1762: Manage and switch the given package envs for xrepo env
• #1767: Support Circle compiler
• #1753: Support armcc/armclang toolchains for Keil/MDK
• #1774: Add table.contains api
• #1735: Add custom command in cmake generator

Changes

• #1528: Check c++17/20 features
• #1729: Improve C++20 modules for clang/gcc/msvc, support inter-module dependency compilation and parallel optimization
• #1779: Remove builtin -Gd for ml.exe/x86
• #1781: Improve get.sh installation script to support nixos

v2.5.8

New features

• #388: Pascal Language Support
• #1682: Add optional lua5.3 backend instead of luajit to provide better compatibility
• #1622: Support Swig
• #1714: Support build local embed cmake projects
• #1715: Support to detect compiler language standards as features and add check_macros
• Support Loongarch

Change

• #1618: Improve vala to support to generate libraries and bindings
• Improve Qt rules to support Qt 4.x
• Improve set_symbols("debug") to generate pdb file for clang on windows
• #1638: Improve to merge static library
• Improve on_load/after_load to support to add target deps dynamically
• #1675: Rename dynamic and import library suffix for mingw
• #1694: Support to define a variable without quotes for configuration files
• Support Android NDK r23
• Add c++latest and clatest for set_languages
• #1720: Add save_scope and restore_scope to fix check_xxx apis
• #1726: Improve compile_commands generator to support nvcc

Bugs fixed

• #1671: Fix incorrect absolute path after installing precompiled packages
• #1689: Fix unicode chars bug for vsxmake

v2.5.7

New features

• #1534: Support to compile Vala lanuage project
• #1544: Add utils.bin2c rule to generate header from binary file
• #1547: Support to run and get output of c/c++ snippets in option
• #1567: Package "lock file" support to freeze dependencies
• #1597: Support to compile *.metal files to generate *.metalib and improve xcode.application rule

Change

• #1540: Better support for compilation of automatically generated code
• #1578: Improve add_repositories to support relative path better
• #1582: Improve installation and os.cp to reserve symlink

Bugs fixed

• #1531: Fix error info when loading targets failed

v2.5.6

New features

• #1483: Add os.joinenvs() and improve package tools envirnoments
• #1523: Add set_allowedmodes, set_allowedplats and set_allowedarchs
• #1523: Add set_defaultmode, set_defaultplat and set_defaultarchs

Change

• Improve vs/vsxmake project generator to support vs2022
• #1513: Improve precompiled binary package compatibility on windows/msvc
• Improve to find vcpkg root directory on windows
• Improve to support Qt6

Bugs fixed

• #489: Fix run os.execv with too long envirnoment value on windows

v2.5.5

New features

• #1421: Add prefix, suffix and extension options for target names
• #1422: Support search packages from vcpkg, conan
• #1424: Set binary as default target kind
• #1140: Add a way to ask xmake to try to download dependencies from a certain package manager
• #1339: Improve xmake package to generate new local/remote packages
• Add appletvos platform support for AppleTV, xmake f -p appletvos
• #1437: Add headeronly library type for package to ignore vs_runtime
• #1351: Support export/import current configs
• #1454: Support to download and install precompiled image packages from xmake-mirror

Change

• #1425: Improve tools/meson to load msvc envirnoments
• #1442: Support to clone package resources from git url
• #1389: Support to add toolchain envs to xrepo env
• #1453: Support to export protobuf includedirs
• Support vs2022

Bugs fixed

• #1413: Fix hangs on fetching packages
• #1420: Fix config and packages cache
• #1445: Fix WDK driver sign error
• #1465: Fix missing link directory

v2.5.4

New features

• #1323: Support find and install package from apt, add_requires("apt::zlib1g-dev")
• #1337: Add environment vars to change package directories
• #1338: Support import and export installed packages
• #1087: Add xrepo env shell and support load envs from add_requires/xmake.lua
• #1313: Support private package for add_requires/add_deps
• #1358: Support to set mirror url to speedup download package
• #1369: Support arm/arm64 packages for vcpkg, thanks @fallending
• #1405: Add portage package manager support, thanks @Phate6660

Change

• Improve find_package and add package:find_package for xmake package
• Remove deprecated set_config_h and set_config_h_prefix apis
• #1343: Improve to search local package files
• #1347: Improve to vs_runtime configs for binary package
• #1353: Improve del_files() to speedup matching files
• #1349: Improve xrepo env shell to support powershell

Bugs fixed

• #1380: Fix add packages errors
• #1381: Fix add local git source for package
• #1391: Fix cuda/nvcc toolchain

v2.5.3

New features

• #1259: Support add_files("*.def") to export symbols for windows/dll
• #1267: add find_package("nvtx")
• #1274: add platform.linux.bpf rule to build linux/bpf program
• #1280: Support fetchonly package to improve find_package
• Support to fetch remote ndk toolchain package
• #1268: Add utils.install.pkgconfig_importfiles rule to install *.pc import file
• #1268: Add utils.install.cmake_importfiles rule to install *.cmake import files
• #348: Add platform.longpaths policy to support git longpaths
• #1314: Support to install and use conda packages
• #1120: Add core.base.cpu module and improve os.cpuinfo()
• #1325: Add builtin git variables for add_configfiles

Change

• #1275: Support conditionnal targets for vsxmake plugin
• #1290: Improve android ndk to support >= r22
• #1311: Add packages lib folder to PATH for vsxmake project

Bugs fixed

• #1266: Fix relative repo path in add_repositories
• #1288: Fix vsxmake generator with option configs

v2.5.2

New features

• #955: Support zig cc and zig c++ as c/c++ compiler
• #955: Support zig cross-compilation
• #1177: Improve to detect terminal and color codes
• #1216: Pass custom configuration scripts to xrepo
• Add linuxos builtin module to get linux system information
• #1217: Support to fetch remote toolchain package when building project
• #1123: Add rule("utils.symbols.export_all") to export all symbols for windows/dll
• #1181: Add utils.platform.gnu2mslib(mslib, gnulib) module api to convert mingw/xxx.dll.a to msvc xxx.lib
• #1246: Improve rules and generators to support commands list
• #1239: Add add_extsources to improve find external packages
• #1241: Support add .manifest files for windows program
• Support to use xrepo remove --all to remove all packages
• #1254: Support to export packages to parent target

Change

• #1226: Add missing qt include directories
• #1183: Improve c++ lanuages to support Qt6
• #1237: Add qt.ui files for vsxmake plugin
• Improve vs/vsxmake plugins to support precompiled header and intellisense
• #1090: Simplify integration of custom code generators
• #1065: Improve protobuf rule to support compile_commands generators
• #1249: Improve vs/vsxmake generator to support startproject
• #605: Improve to link orders for add_deps/add_packages
• Remove deprecated add_defines_h_if_ok and add_defines_h apis for option

Bugs fixed

• #1219: Fix version check and update
• #1235: Fix include directories with spaces

v2.5.1

New features

• #1035: The graphics configuration menu fully supports mouse events, and support scroll bar
• #1098: Support stdin for os.execv
• #1079: Add autoupdate plugin rule for vsxmake, add_rules("plugin.vsxmake.autoupdate")
• Add xmake f --vs_runtime='MT' and set_runtimes("MT") to set vs runtime for targets and packages
• #1032: Support to enum registry keys and values
• #1026: Support group for vs/vsxmake project
• #1178: Add add_requireconfs() api to rewrite configs of depend packages
• #1043: Add luarocks.module rule for luarocks-build-xmake
• #1190: Support for Apple Silicon (macOS ARM)
• #1145: Support Qt deploy for Windows, thanks @SirLynix

Change

• #1072: Fix and improve to parse cl deps
• Support utf8 for ui modules and xmake f --menu
• Improve to support zig on macOS
• #1135: Improve multi-toolchain and multi-platforms for targets
• #1153: Improve llvm toolchain to support sysroot on macOS
• #1071: Improve to generate vs/vsxmake project to support for remote packages
• Improve vs/vsxmake project plugin to support global set_arch() setting
• #1164: Improve to launch console programs for vsxmake project
• #1179: Improve llvm toolchain and add isysroot

Bugs fixed

• #1091: Fix incorrect ordering of inherited library dependencies
• #1105: Fix c++ language intellisense for vsxmake
• #1132: Fix TrimEnd bug for vsxmake
• #1142: Fix git not found when installing packages
• Fix macos.version bug for macOS Big Sur
• #1084: Fix add_defines() bug (contain spaces)
• #1195: Fix unicode problem for vs and improve find_vstudio/os.exec

v2.3.9

New features

• Add new xrepo command to manage C/C++ packages
• Support for installing packages of cross-compilation
• Add musl.cc toolchains
• #1009: Support select and install any version package, e.g. add_requires("libcurl 7.73.0", {verify = false})
• #1016: Add license checking for target/packages
• #1017: Support external/system include directories add_sysincludedirs for package and toolchains
• #1020: Support to find and install pacman package on archlinux and msys2
• Support mouse for xmake f --menu

Change

• #997: Support to set std lanuages for xmake project -k cmake
• #998: Support to install vcpkg packages with windows-static-md
• #996: Improve to find vcpkg directory
• #1008: Improve cross toolchains
• #1030: Improve xcode.framework and xcode.application rules
• #1051: Add edit and embed to set_symbols() only for msvc
• #1062: Improve xmake project -k vs plugin.

v2.3.8

New features

• #955: Add zig project templates
• #956: Add wasm platform and support Qt/Wasm SDK
• Upgrade luajit vm and support for runing on mips64 device
• #972: Add depend.on_changed() api to simplify adding dependent files
• #981: Add set_fpmodels() for math optimization mode
• #980: Support Intel C/C++ and Fortran Compiler
• #986: Support for c11 and c17 for MSVC Version 16.8 and Above
• #979: Add Abstraction for OpenMP. add_rules("c++.openmp")

Change

• #958: Improve mingw platform to support llvm-mingw toolchain
• Improve add_requires("zlib~xxx") to support for installing multi-packages at same time
• #977: Improve find_mingw for windows
• #978: Improve toolchain flags order
• Improve Xcode toolchain to support for macOS/arm64

Bugs fixed

• #951: Fix emcc support for windows
• #992: Fix filelock bug

v2.3.7

New features

• #2941: Add support for winget
• Add xmake-tinyc installer without msvc compiler for windows
• Add tinyc compiler toolchain
• Add emcc compiler toolchain (emscripten) to compiling to asm.js and WebAssembly
• #947: Add xmake g --network=private to enable the private network

Change

• #907: Improve to the linker optimization for msvc
• Improve to detect qt sdk environment
• #918: Improve to support cuda11 toolchains
• Improve Qt support for ubuntu/apt
• Improve CMake project generator
• #931: Support to export packages with all dependences
• #930: Support to download package without version list directly
• #927: Support to switch arm/thumb mode for android ndk
• Improve trybuild/cmake to support android/mingw/iphoneos/watchos toolchains

Bugs fixed

• #903: Fix install vcpkg packages fails
• #912: Fix the custom toolchain
• #914: Fix bad light userdata pointer for lua on some aarch64 devices

v2.3.6

New features

• Add xmake project -k xcode generator (use cmake)
• #870: Support gfortran compiler
• #887: Support zig compiler
• #893: Add json module
• #898: Support cross-compilation for golang
• #275: Support go package manager to install go packages
• #581: Support dub package manager to install dlang packages

Change

• #868: Support new cl.exe dependency report files, /sourceDependencies xxx.json
• #902: Improve to detect cross-compilation toolchain

v2.3.5

New features

• Add xmake show -l envs to show all builtin envirnoment variables
• #861: Support search local package file to install remote package
• #854: Support global proxy settings for curl, wget and git

Change

• #828: Support to import sub-directory files for protobuf rules
• #835: Improve mode.minsizerel to add /GL flags for msvc
• #828: Support multi-level directories for protobuf/import
• #838: Support to override builtin-rules for add_files("src/*.c", {rules = {"xx", override = true}})
• #847: Support to parse include deps for rc file
• Improve msvc tool chain, remove the dependence of global environment variables
• #857: Improved set_toolchains() when cross-compilation is supported, specific target can be switched to host toolchain and compiled at the same time

Bugs fixed

• Fix the progress bug for theme
• #829: Fix invalid sysroot path for macOS
• #832: Fix find_packages bug for the debug mode

v2.3.4

New features

• #630: Support *BSD system, e.g. FreeBSD, ..
• Add wprint builtin api to show warnings
• #784: Add set_policy() to set and modify some builtin policies
• #780: Add set_toolchains/set_toolsets for target and improve to detect cross-compilation toolchains
• #798: Add xmake show plugin to show some builtin configuration values and infos
• #797: Add ninja theme style, e.g. xmake g --theme=ninja
• #816: Add mode.releasedbg and mode.minsizerel rules
• #819: Support ansi/vt100 terminal control

Change

• #771: Check includedirs, linkdirs and frameworkdirs
• #774: Support ltui windows resize for xmake f --menu
• #782: Add check flags failed tips for add_cxflags, ..
• #808: Support add_frameworks for cmakelists
• #820: Support independent working/build directory

Bug fixed

• #786: Fix check header file deps
• #810: Fix strip debug bug for linux

v2.3.3

New features

• #727: Strip and generate debug symbols file (.so/.dSYM) for android/ios program
• #687: Support to generate objc/bundle program.
• #743: Support to generate objc/framework program.
• Support to compile bundle, framework, mac application and ios application, and all some project templates
• Support generate ios *.ipa file and codesign
• Add xmake.cli rule to develop lua program with xmake core engine

Change

• #750: Improve qt.widgetapp rule to support private slot

v2.3.2

New features

• Add powershell theme for powershell terminal
• Add xmake --dry-run -v to dry run building target and only show verbose build command.
• #712: Add sdcc platform and support sdcc compiler

Change

• #589: Improve and optimize build speed, supports parallel compilation and linking across targets
• Improve the ninja/cmake generator
• #728: Improve os.cp to support reserve source directory structure
• #732: Improve find_package to support homebrew/cmake pacakges
• #695: Improve android abi

Bugs fixed

• Fix the link errors output issues for msvc
• #718: Fix download cache bug for package
• #722: Fix invalid package deps
• #719: Fix process exit bug
• #720: Fix compile_commands generator

v2.3.1

New features

• #675: Support to compile *.c as c++, add_files("*.c", {sourcekind = "cxx"}).
• #681: Support compile xmake on msys/cygwin and add msys/cygwin platform
• Add socket/pipe io modules and support to schedule socket/process/pipe in coroutine
• #192: Try building project with the third-party buildsystem
• Enable color diagnostics output for gcc/clang
• #588: Improve project generator, xmake project -k ninja, support for build.ninja

Change

• #665: Support to parse *nix style command options, thanks @OpportunityLiu
• #673: Improve tab complete to support argument values
• #680: Improve get.sh scripts and add download mirrors
• Improve process scheduler
• #651: Improve os/io module syserrors tips

Bugs fixed

• Fix incremental compilation for checking the dependent file
• Fix log output for parsing xmake-vscode/problem info
• #684: Fix linker errors for android ndk on windows

v2.2.9

New features

• #569: Add c++ modules build rules
• Add xmake project -k xmakefile generator
• 620: Add global ~/.xmakerc.lua for all projects.
• 593: Add core.base.socket module.

Change

• #563: Separate build rules for specific language files from action/build
• #570: Add qt.widgetapp and qt.quickapp rules
• #576: Uses set_toolchain instead of add_tools and set_tools
• Improve xmake create action
• #589: Improve the default build jobs number to optimize build speed
• #598: Improve find_package to support .tbd libraries on macOS
• #615: Support to install and use other archs and ios conan packages
• #629: Improve hash.uuid and implement uuid v4
• #639: Improve to parse argument options to support -jN

Bugs fixed

• #567: Fix out of memory for serialize
• #566: Fix link order problem with remote packages
• #565: Fix run path for vcpkg packages
• #597: Fix run xmake require command too slowly
• #634: Fix mode.coverage rule and check flags

v2.2.8

New features

• Add protobuf c/c++ rules
• #468: Add utf-8 support for io module on windows
• #472: Add xmake project -k vsxmake plugin to support call xmake from vs/msbuild
• #487: Support to build the selected files for the given target
• Add filelock for io
• #513: Support for android/termux
• #517: Add add_cleanfiles api for target
• #537: Add set_runenv api to override os/envs

Changes

• #257: Lock the whole project to avoid other process to access.
• Attempt to enable /dev/shm for the os.tmpdir
• #542: Improve vs unicode output for link/cl
• Improve binary bitcode lua scripts in the program directory

Bugs fixed

• #549: Fix error caused by the new vsDevCmd.bat of vs2019

v2.2.7

New features

• #455: support clang as cuda compiler, try xmake f --cu=clang
• #440: Add set_rundir() and add_runenvs() api for target/run
• #443: Add tab completion support
• Add on_link, before_link and after_link for rule and target
• #190: Add add_rules("lex", "yacc") rules to support lex/yacc projects

Changes

• #430: Add add_cucodegens() api to improve set codegen for cuda
• #432: support deps analyze for cu file (for CUDA 10.1+)
• #437: Support explict git source for xmake update, xmake update github:xmake-io/xmake#dev
• #438: Support to only update scripts, xmake update --scriptonly dev
• #433: Improve cuda to support device-link
• #442: Improve test library

v2.2.6

New features

• #380: Add support to export compile_flags.txt
• #382: Simplify simple scope settings
• #397: Add clib package manager support
• #404: Support Qt for android and deploy android apk
• Add some qt empty project templates, e.g. widgetapp_qt, quickapp_qt_static and widgetapp_qt_static
• #415: Add --cu-cxx config arguments to nvcc/-ccbin
• Add --ndk_stdcxx=y and --ndk_cxxstl=gnustl_static argument options for android NDK

Changes

• Improve remote package manager
• Improve target:on_xxx scripts to support to match android|armv7-a@macosx,linux|x86_64 pattern
• Improve loadfile to optimize startup speed, decrease 98% time

Bugs fixed

• #400: fix c++ languages bug for qt rules

v2.2.5

New features

• Add string.serialize and string.deserialize to serialize and deserialize object, function and others.
• Add xmake g --menu
• #283: Add target:installdir() and set_installdir() api for target
• #260: Add add_platformdirs api, we can define custom platforms
• #310: Add theme feature
• #318: Add add_installfiles api to target
• #339: Improve add_requires and find_package to integrate the 3rd package manager
• #327: Integrate with Conan package manager
• Add the builtin api find_packages("pcre2", "zlib") to find multiple packages
• #320: Add template configuration files and replace all variables before building
• #179: Generate CMakelist.txt file for xmake project plugin
• #361: Support vs2019 preview
• #368: Support private, public, interface to improve dependency inheritance like cmake
• #284: Add passing user configs description for package()
• #319: Add add_headerfiles to improve to set header files and directories
• #342: Add some builtin help functions for includes(), e.g. check_cfuncs

Changes

• Improve to switch version and debug mode for the dependent packages
• #264: Support xmake update dev on windows
• #293: Add xmake f/g --mingw=xxx configuration option and improve to find_mingw
• #301: Improve precompiled header file
• #322: Add option.add_features, option.add_cxxsnippets and option.add_csnippets
• Remove some deprecated interfaces of xmake 1.x, e.g. add_option_xxx
• #327: Support conan package manager for lib.detect.find_package
• Improve lib.detect.find_package and add builtin find_packages("zlib 1.x", "openssl", {xxx = ...}) api
• Mark set_modes() as deprecated, we use add_rules("mode.debug", "mode.release") instead of it
• #353: Improve target:set, target:add and add target:del to modify target configuration
• #356: Add qt_add_static_plugins() api to support static Qt sdk
• #351: Support yasm for generating vs201x project
• Improve the remote package manager.

Bugs fixed

• Fix cannot call set_optimize() to set optimization flags when exists add_rules("mode.release")
• #289: Fix unarchive gzip file failed on windows
• #296: Fix option.add_includedirs for cuda
• #321: Fix find program bug with $PATH envirnoment

v2.2.3

New features

• #233: Support windres for mingw platform
• #239: Add cparser compiler support
• Add plugin manager xmake plugin --help
• Add add_syslinks api to add system libraries dependence
• Add xmake l time xmake [--rebuild] to record compilation time
• #250: Add xmake f --vs_sdkver=10.0.15063.0 to change windows sdk version
• Add lib.luajit.ffi and lib.luajit.jit extension modules
• #263: Add new target kind: object to only compile object files

Changes

• #229: Improve to select toolset for vcproj plugin
• Improve compilation dependences
• Support *.xz for extractor
• #249: revise progress formatting to space-leading three digit percentages
• #247: Add -D and --diagnosis instead of --backtrace
• #259: Improve on_build, on_build_file and on_xxx for target and rule
• #269: Clean up the temporary files at last 30 days
• Improve remote package manager
• Support to add packages with only header file
• Support to modify builtin package links, e.g. add_packages("xxx", {links = {}})

Bugs fixed

• Fix state inconsistency after failed outage of installation dependency package

v2.2.2

New features

• Support fasm assembler
• Add has_config, get_config, and is_config apis
• Add set_config to set the default configuration
• Add $xmake --try to try building project using third-party buildsystem
• Add set_enabled(false) to disable target
• #69: Add remote package management, add_requires("tbox ~1.6.1")
• #216: Add windows mfc rules

Changes

• Improve to detect Qt envirnoment and support mingw
• Add debug and release rules to the auto-generated xmake.lua
• #178: Modify the shared library name for mingw.
• Support case-insensitive path pattern-matching for add_files() on windows
• Improve to detect Qt sdk directory for detect.sdks.find_qt
• #184: Improve lib.detect.find_package to support vcpkg
• #208: Improve rpath for shared library
• #225: Improve to detect vs envirnoment

Bug fixed

• #177: Fix the dependent target link bug
• Fix high cpu usage bug and Exit issues for $ xmake f --menu
• #197: Fix Chinese path for generating vs201x project
• Fix wdk rules bug
• #205: Fix targetdir,objectdir not used in vsproject

v2.2.1

New features

• #158: Support CUDA Toolkit and Compiler
• Add set_tools and add_tools apis to change the toolchains for special target
• Add builtin rules: mode.debug, mode.release, mode.profile and mode.check
• Add is_mode, is_arch and is_plat builtin apis in the custom scripts
• Add color256 codes
• #160: Support Qt compilation environment and add qt.console, qt.application rules
• Add some Qt project templates
• #169: Support yasm for linux, macosx and windows
• #159: Support WDK driver compilation environment

Changes

• Add FAQ to the auto-generated xmake.lua
• Support android NDK >= r14
• Improve warning flags for swiftc
• #167: Improve custom rules
• Improve os.files and os.dirs api
• #171: Improve build dependence for qt rule
• Implement make clean for generating makefile plugin

Bugs fixed

• Fix force to add flags bug
• #157: Fix generate pdb file error if it's output directory does not exists
• Fix strip all symbols bug for macho target file
• #168: Fix generate vs201x project bug with x86/x64 architectures

v2.1.9

New features

• Add del_files() api to delete files in the files list
• Add rule(), add_rules() api to implement the custom build rule and improve add_files("src/*.md", {rule = "markdown"})
• Add os.filesize() api
• Add core.ui.xxx cui components
• Add xmake f --menu to configure project with a menu configuration interface
• Add set_values api to option()
• Support to generate a menu configuration interface from user custom project options
• Add source file position to interpreter and search results in menu

Changes

• Improve to configure cross-toolchains, add tool alias to support unknown tool name, .e.g xmake f --cc=gcc@ccmips.exe
• #151: Improve to build the share library for the mingw platform
• Improve to generate makefile plugin
• Improve the checking errors tips
• Improve add_cxflags .., force to set flags without auto checking: add_cxflags("-DTEST", {force = true})
• Improve add_files, add force block to force to set flags without auto checking: add_files("src/*.c", {force = {cxflags = "-DTEST"}})
• Improve to search the root project directory
• Improve to detect vs environment
• Upgrade luajit to 2.1.0-beta3
• Support to run xmake on linux (arm, arm64)
• Improve to generate vs201x project plugin

Bugs fixed

• Fix complation dependence
• #151: Fix os.nuldev() for gcc on mingw
• #150: Fix the command line string limitation for ar.exe
• Fix xmake f --cross error
• Fix os.cd to the windows root path bug

v2.1.8

New features

• Add XMAKE_LOGFILE environment variable to dump the output info to file
• Support tinyc compiler

Changes

• Improve support for IDE/editor plugins (.e.g vscode, sublime, intellij-idea)
• Add .gitignore file when creating new projects
• Improve to create template project
• Improve to detect toolchains on macosx without xcode
• Improve set_config_header to support set_config_header("config", {version = "2.1.8", build = "%Y%m%d%H%M"})

Bugs fixed

• #145: Fix the current directory when running target

v2.1.7

New features

• Add add_imports to bulk import modules for the target, option and package script
• Add xmake -y/--yes to confirm the user input by default
• Add xmake l package.manager.install xxx to install software package
• Add xmake plugin for vscode editor, xmake-vscode
• Add xmake macro .. to run the last command

Changes

• Support 24bits truecolors for cprint()
• Support @loader_path and $ORIGIN for add_rpathdirs()
• Improve set_version("x.x.x", {build = "%Y%m%d%H%M"}) and add build version
• Move docs directory to xmake-docs repo
• Improve install and uninstall actions and support DESTDIR and PREFIX envirnoment variables
• Optimize to detect flags
• Add COLORTERM=nocolor to disable color output
• Remove and_bindings and add_rbindings api
• Disable to output colors code to file
• Update project templates with tbox
• Improve lib.detect.find_program interface
• Enable colors output for windows cmd
• Add -w|--warning arguments to enable the warnings output

Bugs fixed

• Fix set_pcxxheader bug
• #140: Fix os.tmpdir() in fakeroot
• #142: Fix os.getenv charset bug on windows
• Fix compile error with spaces path
• Fix setenv empty value bug

v2.1.6

Changes

• Improve add_files to configure the compile option of the given files
• Inherit links and linkdirs from the dependent targets and options
• Improve target.add_deps and add inherit config, .e.g add_deps("test", {inherit = false})
• Remove the binary files of tbox.pkg
• Use /Zi instead of /ZI for msvc

Bugs fixed

• Fix target deps
• Fix target:add and option:add bug
• Fix compilation and installation bug on archlinux

v2.1.5

New features

• #83: Add add_csnippet and add_cxxsnippet into option for detecting some compiler features.
• #83: Add user extension modules to detect program, libraries and files.
• Add find_program, find_file, find_library, find_tool and find_package module interfaces.
• Add net.* and devel.* extension modules
• Add val() api to get the value of builtin-variable, .e.g val("host"), val("env PATH"), val("shell echo hello") and val("reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\XX;Value")
• Support to compile the microsoft resource file (.rc)
• Add has_flags, features and has_features for detect module interfaces.
• Add option.on_check, option.after_check and option.before_check api
• Add target.on_load api
• #132: Add add_frameworkdirs api
• Add lib.detect.has_xxx and lib.detect.find_xxx apis.
• Add add_moduledirs api
• Add includes api instead of add_subdirs and add_subfiles
• #133: Improve the project plugin to generate compile_commands.json by run xmake project -k compile_commands
• Add set_pcheader and set_pcxxheader to support the precompiled header, support gcc, clang, msvc
• Add xmake f -p cross platform and support the custom platform

Changes

• #87: Add includes and links from target deps automatically
• Improve import to load user extension and global modules
• #93: Improve xmake lua to run a single line command
• Improve to print gcc error and warning info
• Improve print interface to dump table
• #111: Add --root common option to allow run xmake command as root
• #113: Privilege manage when running as root, store the root privilege and degrade.
• Improve xxx_script in xmake.lua to support pattern match, .e.g on_build("iphoneos|arm*", function (target) end)
• improve builtin-variables to support to get the value envirnoment and registry
• Improve to detect vstudio sdk and cross toolchains envirnoment
• #71: Improve to detect compiler and linker from env vars
• Improve the option detection (cache and multi-jobs) and increase 70% speed
• #129: Check link deps and cache the target file
• Support *.asm source files for vs201x project plugin
• Mark add_bindings and add_rbindings as deprecated
• Optimize xmake rebuild speed on windows
• Move core.project.task to core.base.task
• Move echo and app2ipa plugins to xmake-plugins repo.
• Add new api set_config_header("config.h", {prefix = ""}) instead of set_config_h and set_config_h_prefix

Bugs fixed

• Fix try-catch-finally
• Fix interpreter bug when parsing multi-level subdirs
• #115: Fix the path problem of the install script get.sh
• Fix cache bug for import()

v2.1.4

New features

• #68: Add $(programdir) and $(xmake) builtin variables
• add is_host api to get current host operating system
• #79: Improve xmake lua to run interactive commands, read-eval-print (REPL)

Changes

• Modify option menu color.
• #71: Improve to map optimization flags for cl.exe
• #73: Attempt to get executable path as xmake's program directory
• Improve the scope of xmake.lua in add_subdirs and use independent sub-scope to avoid dirty scope
• #78: Get terminal size in runtime and soft-wrap the help printing
• Avoid generate .xmake directory if be not in project

Bugs fixed

• #67: Fix sudo make install permission problem
• #70: Fix check android compiler error
• Fix temporary file path conflict
• Fix os.host and os.arch interfaces
• Fix interpreter bug for loading root api
• #77: fix cprint no color reset eol

v2.1.3

New features

• #65: Add set_default api for target to modify default build and install behavior
• Allows to run xmake command in project subdirectories, it will find the project root directory automatically
• Add add_rpathdirs for target and option

Changes

• #61: Provide safer xmake install and xmake uninstall task with administrator permission
• Provide rpm, deb and osxpkg install package
• #63: More safer build and install xmake
• #61: Check run command as root
• Improve check toolchains and implement delay checking
• Add user tips when scanning and generating xmake.lua automatically

Bugs fixed

• Fix error tips for checking xmake min version
• #60: Fix self-build for macosx and windows
• #64: Fix compile android armv8-a error
• #50: Fix only position independent executables issue for android program

v2.1.2

New features

• Add aur package script and support to install xmake from yaourt
• Add set_basename api for target

Changes

• Support vs2017
• Support compile rust for android
• Improve vs201x project plugin and support multi-modes compilation.

Bugs fixed

• Fix cannot find android sdk header files
• Fix checking option bug
• #57: Fix code files mode to 0644

v2.1.1

New features

• Add --links, --linkdirs and --includedirs configure arguments
• Add app2ipa plugin
• Add dictionary syntax style for xmake.lua
• Provide smart scanning and building mode without xmake.lua
• Add set_xmakever api for xmake.lua
• Add add_frameworks api for objc and swift
• Support multi-languages extension and add golang, dlang and rust language
• Add optional target_end, option_end, task_end apis for scope
• Add golang, dlang and rust project templates

Changes

• Support vs2017 for the project plugin
• Improve gcc error and warning tips
• Improve lanuage module
• Improve print interface, support lua print and format output
• Automatically scan project files and generate it for building if xmake.lua not exists
• Modify license to Apache License 2.0
• Remove some binary tools
• Remove install.bat script and provide nsis install package
• Rewrite documents using docute
• Improve os.run, os.exec, os.cp, os.mv and os.rm interfaces and support wildcard pattern
• Optimize the output info and add -q|--quiet option
• Improve makefile generator, uses $(XX) variables for tools and flags

Bugs fixed

• #41: Fix checker bug for windows
• #43: Avoid to generate unnecessary .xmake directory
• Add c++ stl search directories for android
• Fix compile error for rhel 5.10
• Fix os.iorun bug

v2.0.5

New features

• Add some interpreter builtin-modules
• Support ml64 assembler for windows x64

Changes

• Improve ipairs and pairs interfaces and support filter
• Add filters for generating vs201x project
• Remove core/tools (msys toolchains) and uses xmake to compile core sources on windows
• Remove xmake/packages for templates

Bugs fixed

• Fix -def:xxx.def flags failed for msvc
• Fix ml.exe assembler script
• Fix options linking order bug

v2.0.4

New features

• Add native shell support for xmake.lua. .e.g add_ldflags("$(shell pkg-config --libs sqlite3)")
• Enable pdb symbol files for windows
• Add debugger support on windows (vsjitdebugger, ollydbg, windbg ... )
• Add getenv interface for the global scope of xmake.lua
• Add plugin for generating vstudio project file (vs2002 - vs2015)
• Add set_default api for option

Changes

• Improve builtin-variable format
• Support option for string type

Bugs fixed

• Fix check ld failed without g++ on linux
• Fix compile *.cxx files failed

v2.0.3

New features

• Add check includes dependence automatically
• Add print colors
• Add debugger support, .e.g xmake run -d program ...

Changes

• Improve the interfaces of run shell
• Upgrade luajit to v2.0.4
• Improve to generate makefile plugin
• Optimizate the multitasking compiling speed

Bugs fixed

• Fix install directory bug
• Fix the root directory error for import interface
• Fix check visual stdio error on windows

v2.0.2

Changes

• Change install and uninstall actions
• Update templates
• Improve to check function

Bugs fixed

• #7: Fix create project bug with '[targetname]'
• #9: Support clang with c++11
• Fix api scope leaks bug
• Fix path bug for windows
• Fix check function bug
• Fix check toolchains failed
• Fix compile failed for android on windows

v2.0.1

New features

• Add task api for running custom tasks
• Add plugin expansion and provide some builtin plugins
• Add export ide project plugin(.e.g makefile and will support to export other projects for vs, xcode in feature)
• Add demo plugin for printing 'hello xmake'
• Add make doxygen documents plugin
• Add macro script plugin
• Add more modules for developing plugin
• Add exception using try/catch and simplify grammar for plugin script
• Add option bindings
• Show progress when building

Changes

• Rewrite interpreter for xmake.lua
• More strict syntax detection mechanism
• More strict api scope for xmake.lua
• Simplify template development
• Extend platforms, tools, templates and actions fastly
• Simplify api and support import modules
• Remove dependence for gnu make/nmake, no longer need makefile
• Optimize speed for building and faster x4 than v1.0.4
• Optimize automatic detection
• Modify some api name, but be compatible with the old version
• Optimize merging static library
• Simplify cross compilation using argument --sdk=xxx
• Simplify boolean option for command line, .e.g xmake config --xxx=[y|n|yes|no|true|false]
• Merge iphoneos and iphonesimulator platforms
• Merge watchos and watchsimulator platformss

Bugs fixed

• #3: ArchLinux compilation failed
• #4: Install failed for windows
• Fix envirnoment variable bug for windows

v1.0.4

New features

• Support windows assembler
• Add some project templates
• Support swift codes
• Add -v argument for outputing more verbose info
• Add apple platforms：watchos, watchsimulator
• Add architecture x64, amd64, x86_amd64 for windows
• Support switch static and share library
• Add -j/--jobs argument for supporting multi-jobs

Changes

• Improve add_files api and support to add *.o/obj/a/lib files for merging static library and object files
• Optimize installation and remove some binary files

Bugs fixed

• #1: Install failed for win7
• Fix checking toolchains bug
• Fix install script bug
• Fix install bug for linux x86_64

v1.0.3

New features

• Add set_runscript api and support custom action
• Add import api and support import modules in xmake.lua, .e.g os, path, utils ...
• Add new architecture: arm64-v8a for android

Bugs fixed

• Fix api bug for set_installscript
• Fix install bug for windows x86_64
• Fix relative path bug