FAQ¶
Why do many Jbuilder projects contain a Makefile?¶
Many Jbuilder project contain a toplevel Makefile. It is often only there for convenience, for the following reasons:
- there are many different build systems out there, all with a different CLI. If you have been hacking for a long time, the one true invocation you know is make && make install, possibly preceded by ./configure
- you often have a few common operations that are not part of the build and make <blah> is a good way to provide them
- make is shorter to type than jbuilder build @install
How to add a configure step to a jbuilder project?¶
[example/sample-projects/with-configure-step](example/sample-projects/with-configure-step) shows one way to do it which preserves composability; i.e. it doesn’t require manually running ./configure script when working on multiple projects at the same time.
Can I use topkg with jbuilder?¶
Yes, have a look at the [topkg-jbuilder][topkg-jbuilder] project for more details.
here can I find some examples of projects using Jbuilder?¶
The [dune-universe](https://github.com/dune-universe/dune-universe) repository contains a snapshot of the latest versions of all opam packages depending on jbuilder. It is therefore a useful reference to search through to find different approaches to constructing build rules.