making

making is just like make except it rebuilds your app on any changes.

Any time your modify your sources, it rebuilds your app, and reruns it.

It's perfect for the people who wants to avoid typing:

<Ctrl-c>
make
./app

over and over.

Behind the scenes, it uses inotifywait and filters events using git and make. So no need to define a fancy new configuration when everything is already defined by git and make.

Usage

Use it just like make. See making -h for its specific options:

NAME
making - making (re)builds your application on source changes and reruns it.

SYNOPSYS
    making [--cmd <command|file>] [--no-cmd] [--no-git] [--exclude <regex>] [-h|--help] [-- <make-args>]

DESCRIPTION
    making calls make, and does so again so whenever a source file changes.
    making executes the rightmost executable TARGET, and restarts it when make succeeds.
    making can foward arguments to make, use 2 dashes to separate making and make arguments to avoid ambiguity.

    making considers source files changes if:
      - it isn't ignored by git (or git isn't use)
      - at least one target isn't up to date according to make

OPTIONS
    --cmd <command>
    --cmd <file>
        Executes the provided command or file instead of guessing what to execute.
    --no-cmd
        Builds and doesn't run anything.
    --no-git
        Does not use git, only queries make to detect changes.
    --exclude <regex>
        Forwards the <regex> to inotifywait option --exclude (overrides the default behavior of ignoring './.git/*').
    -h | --help
        Prints this help message and exits.

Install

For Debian based distribution, a package is available at https://pkg.fita.dev. Follow the instructions to add the repository at https://pkg.fita.dev, then:

sudo apt install making

Otherwise, this is a single bash script, just download it inside your PATH, for example:

cd /usr/local/bin;
sudo wget https://github.com/AdrienHorgnies/making/blob/main/making;