The Thyme build system.

Welcome to the Thyme build system! It chops, it dices, it links, it builds and Oh my! Do I see Lua? 👀

Quick introduction

The Thyme build system is a language-agnostic, non-batteries including build system made in Rust. It is deeply inspired from Makefiles, but rather than executing a series of shell commands, it uses the Lua programming language for configuration. Go nuts! Do anything! It's Lua.

Guide to writing Thymefiles

Thyme is powerful, but very simple to use. Targets contain Lua code, and a target may depend on other targets. The default target is named default. The syntax of defining a target is this

-- Psst, you can also have Lua-style comments outside of a target body as well. =)
target_name(dependencies here)
    -- Insert any Lua code here!
    print "Welcome to Thyme."
@end

For eg.

default(dependency_example)
    print "Dependencies are evaluated first, and in the order they are defined."
    print "Targets which do not have any dependencies can omit the parantheses."
@end

dependency_example
    print "This is from the dependency!"
@end

Using the CLI

Your Thymefile should be located in the current directory, then use thyme like this

thyme 

to run the default target. However, to run other targets, run

thyme <target_name>

instead.

Passing arguments to your target

The target body can access the arguments passed to the CLI through the args global.

-- Configuration.
example
    for i in args
        print(i)
    end
@end

# Command
thyme example one two three four

# Output
one 
two
three
four

License

Thyme is licensed under the MIT license. Please see the LICENSE file for more information.