Introduction to autosetup

autosetup is a tool, similar to autoconf, to configure a build system for the appropriate environment, according to the system capabilities and the user-selected options.

autosetup is designed to be light-weight, fast, simple and flexible.

Notable features include:

Easily check for headers, functions, types for C/C++

Easily support user configuration options

Can generate files based on templates, such as Makefile.in => Makefile

Can generate header files based on checked features

Excellent support for cross compilation

Replacement for autoconf in many situations

Runs with either Tcl 8.5+, Jim Tcl or just a C compiler (using the included Jim Tcl source code!)

autosetup is intended to be distributed with projects - no version mismatch issues

autosetup is particularly targeted towards building C/C++ applications on Unix systems, however it can be extended for other environments as needed.

autosetup is not:

A complete build system

A replacement for automake

Intended to replace all possible uses of autoconf

Getting Started