Beast - The Build System

Beast is a build system designed for the purpose of power, speed and productivity. This build system tries to combine ease of use with high efficiency. It is very easy to use syntactically, and also provides great build times!

What is a Build System?

A build system is a tool that helps you build your projects. To put it simply, it keeps track of the various procedures that need to be followed to build/run the code, maintains the order in which these processes need to carried out and also rebuilds out of date targets... A build system does much more than this!!! Beast is such a build system that helps you build your projects with ease and efficiency!

Beast overview

Beast builds projects based on the information provided in a beast build file. In this build file, the user defines what all items need to be built (targets), how they should be built (build rules), and what all targets need to be ready to build a particular target (dependencies). In this way, Beast works on a comprehensive and easy to use target-dependency model. For more information about the particular aspects of a build file, see Writing a Beast File.

Not only does Beast provide you with an easy to understand structure for all your build needs, it comes with a super-easy and intuitive syntax. This causes Beast to be a tool suitable for both highly experienced programmers and beginners.

In addition, Beast has a highly optimized build procedure which works well for multiple threads too. Understanding the build procedure can further help you write optimized beast build files. See Build procedure.

Go ahead and... Unleash the Beast!