Installation

Dependencies

  • Python >=2.7 or >=3.4. Python must have threading support. Python has threading in most cases while nobody uses --without-threads for Python building. Python >= 3.7 always has threading.
  • PyYAML It’s optional and needed only if you use yaml buildconf.

There are different ways to install/use ZenMake:

Via python package (pip)

ZenMake has its own python package. You can install it by:

pip install zenmake

In this way pip will install PyYAML if it’s not installed already.

Note

POSIX: It requires root and will install it system-wide. Alternatively, you can use:

pip install --user zenmake

which will install it for your user and does not require any special privileges. This will install the package in ~/.local/, so you will have to add ~/.local/bin to your PATH.

Windows: It doesn’t always require administrator rights.

Note

You need to have pip installed. Most of the modern Linux distributions have pip in their packages. On Windows you can use, for example, chocolatey. Common instructions to install pip can be found here.

Note

You can install ZenMake with pip and virtualenv. In this case you don’t touch system packages and it doesn’t require root privileges.

After installing you can run ZenMake just by typing:

zenmake

Via git

You can use ZenMake from Git repository. But branch master can be broken. Also, you can just to switch to the required version using git tag. Each version of ZenMake has a git tag. The body of ZenMake application is located in src/zenmake path in the repository. You don’t need other directories and files in repository and you can remove them if you want. Then you can make symlink to src/zenmake/zmrun.py, shell alias or make executable .sh script (for Linux/MacOS/..) or .bat (for Windows) to run ZenMake. Example for Linux (zmrepo is custom directory):

$ mkdir zmrepo
$ cd zmrepo
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/pustotnik/zenmake.git .

Next step is optional. Switch to existing version, for example to 0.7.0:

$ git checkout v0.7.0

Here you can make symlink/alias/script to run zenmake.

Other options to run ZenMake:

$ <path-to-zenmake-repo>/src/zenmake/zmrun.py

or:

$ python <path-to-zenmake-repo>/src/zenmake

Note

To use yaml build configs you need to install PyYAML (with pip or system package manager).

As a zip application

Zenmake can be run as an executable python zip application. And ZenMake can make such zipapp with the command zipapp. Using steps from Via Git you can run:

$ python src/zenmake zipapp
$ ls *.pyz
zenmake.pyz
$ ./zenmake.pyz
...

Resulting file zenmake.pyz can be run standalone without the repository and pip. However, PyYAML must be installed if you want to use yaml build configs. You can copy zenmake.pyz to the root of your project and distribute this file with your project. It can be used on any supported platform and doesn’t require any additional access and changes in your system.

Note

Since ZenMake 0.10.0 you can download ready to use zenmake.pyz from GitHub releases.