How to Fix autoconf-style Configuration Probing(build2.org)
14 points by boris | 5 comments
A build2 blog post by Boris Kolpackov on the problems with autoconf/CMake-style configuration probing via test compilation and how to fix them.
#build-systems on Hacker News
13 stories tagged build-systems, newest first.
Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond(shrub.industries)
17 points by shrub900 | 3 comments
A personal essay arguing that compilers, build systems, and package managers in POSIX-like operating systems fail to share dependency and resource information, missing optimization opportunities.
Recursive `make` and `-j`(quuxplusone.github.io)
13 points by ibobev | 4 comments
Arthur O'Dwyer blog post examining how recursive make invocations interact with the -j parallel flag across GNU Make versions 3.81 to 4.3.
From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The Tine Build System(amutable.com)
29 points by Levitating | 12 comments
Amutable blog post by Daan De Meyer and Martin Pitt introducing tine, a build system for producing bootable OS images from scratch.
Zig: Build System Reworked(ziglang.org)
353 points by tosh | 230 comments
Zig devlog entry by Andrew Kelley describing a reworked build system that splits zig build into a debug-compiled configurer process and a cached release-mode maker process.
I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)
457 points by lemper | 209 comments
A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.
Mise: Monorepo Tasks(github.com)
348 points by jdxcode | 79 comments
GitHub Discussions announcement by jdx introducing Monorepo Tasks, a mise feature for managing tasks, tools, and env vars across multiple projects in one repository.
XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web(github.com)
369 points by _kush | 302 comments
GitHub repository demonstrating XSLT and XML as a native, zero-config build system for websites, with a sample blog.
Apple is open sourcing Swift Build(swift.org)
582 points by dayanruben | 254 comments
Swift.org blog post announcing that Apple is open sourcing Swift Build, the build engine used by Xcode, as a step toward unified cross-platform Swift build tools.
A better build system for OCaml(blog.janestreet.com)
332 points by gaws | 180 comments
Jane Street tech blog post explaining how the company accidentally built a better build system for OCaml (Dune).
Be Aware of the Makefile Effect(blog.yossarian.net)
385 points by thunderbong | 298 comments
A blog post coining the "Makefile effect": complex or unfamiliar tools get configured by copy-pasting and tweaking known-good examples instead of being written from scratch.
SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle(labs.quansight.org)
425 points by todsacerdoti | 225 comments
Quansight Labs blog post on how SciPy was built for Python 3.12 on Windows, including the move to the Flang Fortran compiler.
Buck2: Our open source build system(engineering.fb.com)
327 points by mfiguiere | 213 comments
Meta Engineering blog post announcing the open source release of Buck2, its large-scale build system.