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premake external configuration for library

I'm working on changing all makefiles to use premake for my project.

Since it has many other external libraries using other configuraton tools like autotools, I decided just to use its own Makefile rather than making makeifle by premake for some libraries. I understand "kind : Makefile" is available for what I am going to do.

The problem is that autotools ./configure command should be preceded, but I don't know how to do it by premake. Can anybody suggest to how to deal with it?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • You can use Lua's os.execute() to call external commands.

    os.setcwd("path/to/project")
os.execute("./configure")

    Does that do what you need?