- Shaders record the files glslang opened (a depfile) and their settings
(source path, stage, entry point, defines, include directories) in the
build directory, and rebuild when an included file or a setting changes,
not only the shader's own source.
- An executable relinks when its link command changed, not only when an
object is newer: a link flag in project.cpp, or a dependency's library
that moved (an ExternalDependency built into a new cache directory). The
command is recorded beside the objects; its flags come from ordered sets,
so the order the dependency threads finish in can't change it.
- An external's newest artifact counts its libDirs and versioned .so names.
- Submodules are checked out at the revisions the fetched commit records,
from the URLs its .gitmodules gives, after every clone, switch, checkout
and pull, so a pinned commit builds against its own submodules, and one
moved by hand is put back; with no .gitmodules, git isn't asked.
- Each external clone's fetch and build hold a file lock: parallel builds
pulled into one clone at once ("cannot lock ref").
- mingw:
- -stdlib=libstdc++ always;
- the std module's source is found through libstdc++.modules.json in the
mingw toolchain's own library directories (the generic lib/ holds the
host's Linux one), asking the compiler once a run;
- a toolchain that isn't there is a build error saying where it looked,
not std::terminate;
- CRAFTER_MINGW_DIR names the prefix, the directory holding
x86_64-w64-mingw32/ and lib/gcc/;
- inside the Flatpak the host's /usr mingw is used.
- RunScript's exit-status check reads as the one range it is.
- Tests: ConcurrentExternalFetch, ExternalArtifactTime, GitSubmodules,
LinkFlagsChange, MingwMissing, ShaderIncludeChange; ShaderCompile and
ToolchainResolve extended.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A project.cpp could describe how a project is built, tested and linted,
but not the chores around it: packaging, installing, publishing. Those
stayed shell lines in a README or in someone's history.
Configuration gains `scripts`, a plain list like `defines`. A Script is
a name and a C++ callback, as a lint rule is; there is no script
language and no config file. The callback gets a ScriptContext (the
project, the project file's directory, the arguments) and returns the
exit status. ctx.Run runs a shell command with the terminal attached
and returns its status. It is only stored when project.cpp loads, which
happens for every verb and for every project that depends on this one.
`crafter-build run <name> [args...]` runs one, a bare `run` lists them.
Only the scripts of the project crafter-build was pointed at are
runnable, never a dependency's.
Everything after the script's name is handed to the script untouched.
The two branches that do this sit ahead of every other branch of the
parse loop, --version and --help included. Below the verbs,
`run package clean` would delete build/, and any other word would land
in the project's args and so in the variant hash, moving the build to
another directory. Options before the name keep their meaning, so
project args go there.
The driver is its own partition, :Script. It refuses a project with no
scripts, a name that is empty or starts with '-' (it could never be
typed), a name declared twice (running either would be a guess) and an
unknown name, each with exit 1 and without running anything. A script
that throws exits 1. A return value outside 0..255 becomes 1: an exit
status is eight bits, and a raw wait status such as 256 would otherwise
wrap to success.
Two helpers in :Platform:
- RunCommandAttached runs a command with inherited stdio. Every helper
so far captured through popen, which is right for a compile step and
useless for a command that runs for half an hour or asks a question.
It reads the wait status through DecodeWaitStatus, which
RunCommandChecked and RunCommandWithTimeout now share.
- ShellQuote is exported. It existed twice, as ShellQuote in :External
and ShellQuoteSh in :Test, with the same behaviour; both are gone. A
script that puts a path into a command needs it too.
Not included: a string shorthand for one-command scripts (a one-line
lambda covers it) and a ctx.Build() helper (Build() is already
exported).
A new partition and new exported symbols: run ./build.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
crafter-build is moving to a single Flatpak distribution, and there is
no Windows host in that picture: no build.cmd, no MSVC or mingw host
build, no DLL plus launcher. Delete every host-Windows path instead of
leaving it to rot unverified: the cmd.exe command runner and quoting,
the LOCALAPPDATA cache, the MSVC and mingw-host LoadProject variants
with their LIBCXX_DIR and CRAFTER_MINGW_DIR plumbing, the winsock port
probe, the LoadLibrary libclang loader, the console-width and isatty
shims, and the preprocessor guards around the Linux bodies.
The x86_64-w64-mingw32 cross-compile target stays. It is target logic
(output names, -femulated-tls, the libstdc++ link extras, copying a
dependency DLL next to a mingw exe, wine as the runner) and did not
depend on any of the removed code. The msvc target goes with the host
that was the only thing able to use it.
Three target-path warts fixed on the way: ExpectedOutput named a mingw
static library <name>.lib while the archive step wrote lib<name>.a, so
those libraries relinked on every run; the import lib is no longer
copied next to a mingw exe, since the dependency's own bin dir is
already on the link line; and llvm-ar now writes every archive, not
only the LTO ones, so Debug and Release archives are made the same way.
CRAFTER_API and Crafter.Build-Api.h existed only for the DLL boundary.
Nothing downstream used them, so they are removed rather than kept as
an empty macro nobody can verify.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Crafter.LintRules declares a test that links crafter-build, fetched
with GitProject. crafter-build's own project.cpp loads Crafter.LintRules
as a `#pragma crafter dependency`, so the chain was: crafter-build loads
LintRules, LintRules' test wiring loads crafter-build's project.cpp from
the external cache, which loads LintRules again, and the cycle guard
threw. Every command that loads project.cpp in this repository has
failed since that test was added, including the last CI run on master.
A project file had no way to tell whether it was the one the user
pointed crafter-build at or a dependency being loaded for somebody
else, so it could not skip wiring that only its own build needs.
IsTopLevelProject() answers that from the loading-frame stack
ProjectDependency() already reads: one frame is the top-level project
file, a second is only ever pushed for a dependency. Outside any project
file it is true as well, which is what a test harness constructing
Configurations expects.
The ProjectDependency test records the answer from both the app and the
greeter project files and checks each.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A project.cpp could only import std and Crafter.Build, so anything shared
between build descriptions had to be a header every consumer copies. Now
#pragma crafter dependency "<source>" [branch "<b>" | commit "<sha>"] [project "<file>"]
names a sibling crafter-build project that project.cpp itself imports a
module from. LoadProject scans for the directive, resolves it through
GitProject (a URL) or LocalProject (a path relative to the project file),
forces the result into host-tooling mode (the host triple LoadProject's
own cache is keyed on, native march, no debug, -fPIC so the archive links
into a shared object), builds it, and puts its BMIs and archive on the
project.so command line. The dependency's own project.cpp goes through
the same loader, so its directives resolve recursively; a cycle between
project files is an error instead of unbounded recursion.
The dependency is built on every load, fresh or not: clang crashes rather
than erroring when it imports a BMI whose own imported PCM was rebuilt
underneath it, and the module depfile — which Module::Check already reads —
is what notices the host PCM cache was regenerated. Its artifact mtime is
an input to project.so's staleness check, so editing the dependency
recompiles project.cpp without touching it. The Linux link gains
-fuse-ld=lld because release archives hold ThinLTO bitcode.
ProjectDependency(name) hands the same Configuration* back from inside
CrafterBuildProject, by configuration name or exported module name, so a
test that links the module needn't spell the source twice. It reads a
thread_local frame stack that an RAII guard keeps for the whole of
LoadProject, which also provides the cycle check.
ExpectedOutput() is the link gate's artifact-path lambda hoisted into the
:Clang partition, so the staleness check and the -r runner share the one
rule. Windows branches are wired identically but unverified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RunCommand merged stderr into stdout, dropped pclose's status and returned
the text; every compile, link and archive site then read "printed something"
as "failed". A warning is printing something, so a translation unit that
warned failed the build — but only on the run that actually recompiled it,
since warnings aren't re-emitted for an object that's already up to date.
The same unchanged source therefore passed or failed depending on the state
of the build tree: flaky-looking tests locally, and a cold CI checkout
surfacing every latent warning in a project at once as unrelated failures.
RunCommand is gone, replaced by RunBuildCommand: it goes through
RunCommandChecked, returns "" when the command exited 0 (so every caller's
`if (!result.empty())` error path is unchanged) and hands any warnings to
the new Progress::Diagnostic instead of to the error path. That also closes
the quiet half of the bug — a compiler killed by the OOM killer prints
nothing, so it used to read as success and leave the build carrying on with
a missing object; it now reports the signal that killed it.
Warnings are now shown rather than swallowed, which they weren't in either
direction before: invisible on an incremental build, fatal on a cold one.
Failing on them stays a project's choice, via -Werror in compileFlags.
The staleness check compared an artifact against its own source and its
module imports. Headers were in neither set: the scanner reads `import`
lines, and a .cppm or .cpp keeps its mtime when a header it includes is
edited — so the build reported nothing to do and left objects compiled
against the previous contents. Same silent mixed-layout binary as issue
27, reached through #include instead of import.
Ask the compiler what it actually opened. Every C++ and C compile now
passes -MD -MF <artifact>.d, and Check reads that depfile back through
NewestPrerequisite, comparing every prerequisite's mtime against the
artifact. A missing depfile (an object from a crafter-build that wrote
none) or a prerequisite that no longer exists reads as "rebuild": neither
is evidence of freshness.
The parser unescapes make syntax rather than splitting on whitespace,
since clang wraps depfiles onto continuation lines and escapes spaces in
filenames.
Canonical LGPL-3.0-only text, GPL-3.0 companion, SPDX headers on all
first-party sources, MIT for examples/. Vendored lib/ untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
WASI / wasm32 target support
- Auto-detect /usr/share/wasi-sysroot on Linux when target starts_with("wasm32")
- Skip -march/-mtune for wasm (clang rejects them)
- Apply -fno-exceptions -fno-c++-static-destructors -mllvm -wasm-enable-sjlj
-D_WASI_EMULATED_SIGNAL to wasm builds (compile + std PCM, kept in sync)
- .wasm output extension in expectedOutputFor and link command
- EnableWasiBrowserRuntime(cfg): opt-in helper that drops index.html +
runtime.js next to the .wasm; runtime.js reads window.CRAFTER_WASM_URL
set in the templated index.html so a single shim handles any output name
-r run flag in the CLI: build then exec the artifact (host targets only;
rejects libraries; auto .exe/.wasm extension handling)
CI pipeline (.forgejo/workflows/ci.yaml)
- Triggers: PR/push to master + manual dispatch
- Single arch-latest container job: install deps, bootstrap, self-rebuild,
run tests, cross-compile mingw, package both archives, upload artifacts
- Rolling 'latest' release published only on push/dispatch to master
mingw cross-compile from Linux now works end-to-end:
- ExternalDependency cache key includes target so per-target glslang builds
don't collide; CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release pinned (otherwise glslang appends
'd' to lib names and breaks linking); cross-compile cmake flags
(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows, CMAKE_*_COMPILER_TARGET=...)
- project.cpp accepts --target=<triple>; Linux-only -Wl,--export-dynamic
and -ldl are gated; mingw glslang skips the standalone exe (its libgcc_eh
link pulls pthread which mingw doesn't link by default)
- mingw compile uses -femulated-tls so std::__once_callable etc reference
the same emutls symbols libstdc++ provides
- mingw link auto-adds -lstdc++exp -lpthread
GetCrafterBuildHome() exposed from the Platform module; LoadProject (Linux
+ Windows) now both use it instead of duplicating the resolution.
Examples reorg: hello-world, library, with-module, wasi, tests — each with
its own README. Tests reorg: per-test directory with inner/ fixture, no
shared tests/fixtures/ tree. New Wasi test verifies .wasm magic bytes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- subprocess-isolated test runner (replaces V1 dlopen-RunTest);
Pass/Fail/Crash/Timeout/Skipped outcomes via :Test partition
- TestRunner abstraction with command templates: Local, Ssh,
SshWin (cmd.exe-shell), QemuUser, FromEnv; probe-based skip
when runner unreachable
- transitive PCM-path propagation in Build(); resolveImport
walks deps recursively; depResults cache keyed by PcmDir()
so per-target builds don't collide
- cfg.sysroot threaded through BuildStdPcm + base compile/link
command (enables aarch64 cross via Arch Linux ARM rootfs)
- lib + exe split: project.cpp defines crafterBuildLib
(LibraryStatic) + crafterBuildExe (Executable depending on
it); build.sh produces lib/libcrafter-build.a alongside
bin/crafter-build for downstream static-link consumers
- Windows DLL+launcher: CRAFTER_API macro, /EXPORT flag for
project.dll's CrafterBuildProject; Crafter::Run as the real
entry point with main.cpp as a thin wrapper
- 18 tests: HelloWorld/WithModule/Defines/CrossProjectModule/
Diamond × (Linux + sshwin:winvm), plus Incremental,
BuildError, Libraries, RunnerClassification, QemuUser,
SshRunner, WindowsViaSsh, CrossArchAarch64
- single ./bin/crafter-build test runs everything; Windows
variants skip gracefully if winvm SSH alias unreachable
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
