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Include an external solution in premake

I am trying to write a top level premake4 script to build a project that has multiple external dependencies.

The external builds include things like Java and CMake that (as far as I can tell) premake does not understand. The script does generate an MS Visual Studio 2010 solution. Is there a way to tell premake to include the projects in the solution, so that building inside Visual Studio will rebuild the external projects if they are out of date?

Solution

  • It's not possible in Premake4 without extending it. But if you can use Premake5, it's easily done : https://github.com/premake/premake-core/wiki/external

    Builds for Premake5 are available here http://premake.github.io/ if you want to try it.