premake/premake-core v5.0.0-alpha5

Premake 5.0 alpha 5

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Changes since the previous release:

• New: Rename solution() to workspace()
• New API: customtoolnamespace() (tbasnoopy)
• New API: debuggertype() (tbasnoopy)
• New API: entrypoint() (Blizzard)
• New API: exceptionhandling() and rtti() (Blizzard)
• New API: http.get() and http.download() (Blizzard)
• New API: inlining() (Blizzard)
• New API: zip.extract() (Blizzard)
• New: require() now accepts optional version ranges
• New: Preloaded modules now return a "should load" test function
• New: Added support for IDL files in VC 2010+ (rhuvendiek)
• New: Added file.directory to token environment (Gabi Davar)
• New: Solution configurations are now fully baked (Blizzard)
• New: Enabled per-file configuration queries (Blizzard)
• New: Added more table functions (Blizzard)
• New: Added more values for floatingpoint()
• Fix: Enabled link-time optimization for Clang and GCC
• Fix: Module loader now reports script errors correctly (Tim Wharton)
• Fix: Wrap makefile targets in quotes (leeonix)
• Fix: Provide better default target directories (Blizzard)
• Fix: Escape backslashes in tokens (Damien Courtois)
• Fix: No longer generates containers marked as external
• Fix: Re-enable validation of supported action features (Blizzard)
• Fix: Match Visual C PDB output to target path (leeonix)
• Fix: Remove "." and ".." when joining paths (multiple contributors)
• Fix: Remove trailing newlines from os.outputof() (Tim Wharton)
• Fix: Improve token handling (multiple contributors)

IMPORTANT: Please download our source code package premake-5.0.0-alpha5-src.zip and NOT the automatically created GitHub packages at the bottom of the list.

The GitHub packages do not include the submodule source code, the pre-generated profile files, or the embedded scripts.