Fubsy: The Universal Build Tool

Fubsy is a tool for efficiently building software. If you need to minimally rebuild a bunch of target files from a bunch of source files by following a bunch of rules, Fubsy is what you need. If you prefer a more formal, abstract description: Fubsy is an engine for conditional execution of actions based on the dependencies between related resources.

Building

Fubsy is written in Go, and uses the gc compiler to build. If you're on Unix, you already have Go installed, and you don't care about satisfying Fubsy's optional dependencies, just run

./configure.sh && ./build.sh

For more information, see doc/build.txt.

Using

See the user guide in doc/guide (online at http://fubsy.readthedocs.org/).

Currently, Fubsy is in the very early stages of development. You can write tiny toy build scripts with it, but there is a lot of work to do before it's ready for the real world.

Contributing

The main purpose of this release is to attract developers who want to help shape Fubsy into a world-class build tool. Please see http://fubsy.gerg.ca/develop/ for more information.

Mailing list

Currently there is only one mailing list: [email protected]. Send an empty message to that address and you'll be subscribed. Then help us make Fubsy the best it can be!

Author, copyright, license

Fubsy was written by Greg Ward <greg at gerg dot ca>.

Copyright © 2012-2013, Greg Ward. All rights reserved.

Use of this software is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.