Show HN: Autark – A self-contained build system for C/C++ (autark.dev)

3 points by adamansky 1y ago ↗ HN

The Autark build system bootstraps itself directly from the project's source code, requiring only `sh` and a `C` compiler.

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I don't quite get it, how can it be a C++ build system, if it only requires a C Compiler as dependency?

Or is the dependency on a C compiler in addition to the build toolchain?

In that case a dependency on a C Compiler is quite strange, why not just use bash

Do you have any examples how to add external dependencies? It's a problem that almost every C/C++ project solves differently, unfortunately.