It’s no secret that I focus my build system efforts in Builder around Autotools. I’m happy to include support for other build systems, so long as I’m not the person writing it.
Sometimes the right piece of code falls together so easily you wonder how the hell you didn’t think of it before. Today was such a day.
If you are using Builder from git (such as via jhbuild) or from the gnome-builder-3-20 branch (what will become 3.20.4) you can use Builder with the fallback build system. This is essentially our “NULL” build system and has been around forever. But today, these branches learned something so stupidly obvious I’m ashamed I didn’t do it 6 months ago when implementing Build Configurations.
If you go into the Build Configuration panel (the middle button in the sidebar) you can specify environment flags. Builder will use CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and VALAFLAGS now to prime those compilers in the absence of Autotools (where we have discovered these dynamically).
And now semantic language features should work.
