Is it possible to just have premake produce a batch file?

[bogez57]

I don't use visual studio or any other heavy duty IDE. I generally just write batch files to build projects. However, it would be nice to have a more readable, manageable way to write these files. Is premake able to generate just a batch file which contains all the compiler switches and such?

[nickclark2016]

In the core repository, we have no such functionality. It's possible that there exists a 3rd party module to do exactly that. For VS specifically, you can still generate the solution and project files, then use msbuild to compile, rather than using the full VS IDE (assuming you're using the VS exporter).

[bogez57]

Okay, thanks for the information.

[Jarod42]

For non-IDE generators,
There is builtin gmake/gmake2 which generate makefile (gcc/clang).
As external build-system Modules, there is also premake-ninja for ninja (gcc/clang/msvc) or premake-cmake for CMake(gcc/clang/msvc).