Maike is a build system based on scanning of source files. To construct the dependency graph, Maike uses embedded JSON data to control the compilation process. The best guide on how to tag source files and describe a project is probably the Maike source itself.
Maike requires requires currently relies on a GNU system, with glibc version 2.3.4 or later, running on the Linux® kernel, version 2.6.33 or later. Also, it requires libjansson, and the GNU C++ compiler version 5 or later. It is likely that Clang also works, but it has not been tested. There are plans for porting the system to Windows and MinGW, but MSVC is not being considered.
The source for the latest Maike can be obtained by cloning the git repository.
git clone /~https://github.com/milasudril/maike
The latest release version can be found at the github release page. The git repository may contain features not present in the release version, but may require an up-to-date version of Maike in order to be compiled. The release package always contains a build script that can be used for bootstrapping.
Before compiling maike, make sure that appropriate libjansson development files are available on the system. Also install ronn, a tool that creates troff from markdown. If Maike is not available, or the installed version is to old, run the script ./bootstrap within the source directory.
./bootstrap
Otherwise, just run your installed version of Maike from the source directory.
maike
If the compilation succeeded, the Maike executable should be present in the newly created __targets directory. In order to use it, copy it to a directory mentioned in your PATH variable. For example
cp __targets/maike ~/bin/maike
It is very likely that you need the additional target hooks. These reside inside two shared objects (dll:s)
cp __targets/*.so ~/bin/maike
Alternately, a complete installation can be done by running the supplied install script.
sudo ./install.sh
By default, it copies stuff to /usr/local. If not root, or if you want to install Maike somewhere else anyways, you can change that by using the --prefix option.
./install.sh --prefix=/home/alice
To uninstall Maike
./uninstall.sh
More information on how to use Maike can be found on the Maike homepage.
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