Build System In C/C++
Part 1
Freshers when start learning to code they don’t give any importance to the build system. Unfortunately, even in the industry experience employee ignore them. But adding a build system as a skill in a resume enhances portfolio value and decreases the time spent on the development.
I am not joking but, you can understand the importance of the build System from the line mentioned below
“Developer who know the build system can only build the complete system.“
Let’s first discuss build system in the language C/C++.
Build system can be defined as a set of tools for the developer which automate the process of building of the application from the source code.
This build system consists of the tools and scripts that automate the process of building an application from source code. In this article, we will have a discussion on some of the popular build systems in C/C++ and discuss some of the popular build systems that developers can use to develop the application.
This build system can be used by the developer to perform some of the other tasks which will manage all the necessary dependencies, testing packaging, and deployment of the tool.
Primary Goal
Primary Goal of build system is to optimize the process of building an application and reduce the time spend in manual compiling linking managing dependencies testing, packaging and deployement of the tool.
Let’s take Build System as a set which can be defined as BS
BS = BUILD_SYSTEM
BS
{Build_Script,Source_Files,Compilation_Flags,Packaging_Binary_Code, Other_Setting_Needed_to_build_application}
Let’s discuss some of the popular build system in C/C++ in upcoming article.