Waf is a free tool that derives from the concepts of other build tools such as Autotools, Scons, CMake or Ant.
Waf is used to help building software (it is also called a "build system"):
· detect configuration variables
· compile source files
· install programs and libraries
Here are some key features of "Waf":
· Easy to use: Waf configuration files are written in the mainstream scripting language Python
· Easy to install and to distribute: Waf fits entirely in a single 75KB redistributable file which does not require any installation to run
· Portable: Waf only depends on Python which is ported onto most operating systems
· Reliable: Waf uses hash-based dependency calculation dependencies to compute the targets to rebuild
· User-friendly: The output can be displayed in colors, filtered, displayed with progress bars or output all the commands that get executed
· Documented: The Waf book sums up the essential commands
· Flexible: Because Waf has a carefully designed object oriented architecture it is very easy to add new features
· Fast: Because of its carefully designed architecture, Waf is able to distribute the jobs on multi-core hardware (-j), it is able to reuse targets compiled already (ccache), and its runtime footprint is pretty small compared to other build tools
· Broad support for languages and tools: Waf is already used for C, C++, C#, D, java, ocaml, python project, and provides various tools for processing docbook, man pages, intltool, msgfmt
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed the performance regression related to #974
