premake / premake/premake-core
Get toolset/compiler version
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Description
Is it possible to get the version of the toolset so that I could, for example, set a buildoptions flag that's only available on newer versions of the compiler?
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing how Premake exposes toolset and compiler information to build scripts, then identify a user-facing way to compare versions and verify it against a compiler feature available only in newer toolsets.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, lua
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100