A typical dilemma for a c++ developer is creating the initial build configuration. Out of my affection for Lua, I’ve collected my typical premake4 patterns into a separate project to be able to set up c++ projects on any platform within a minute.

Here’s a sample from selfdestructing:

_G.package.path=_G.package.path..[[;./?.lua;./?/?.lua]]
assert ( require 'premake.quickstart' )

make_solution 'selfdestructing'

includedirs { 
	'./selfdestructing',
	'./Catch/single_include'
}

make_console_app( 'selfdestructing-test', { './test/test.cpp' } )
make_cpp11()
run_target_after_build()