xmake-trybuild

Installation
SKILL.md

Xmake TryBuild — Drive Third-Party Build Systems

trybuild lets xmake invoke another build system (CMake, Autotools, Meson, …) while still providing its own platform/toolchain detection, cross-compile support, and incremental-build wrappers. Use it when you need to build an upstream project that doesn't use xmake.lua, but still want xmake's cross-compilation ergonomics.

Supported backends

--trybuild= Backend
autotools ./configure + make (cross-compile supported)
cmake cmake + generator (cross-compile supported)
meson meson + ninja
ninja direct ninja
make make / Makefile
msbuild Visual Studio MSBuild
xcodebuild Xcode CLI builds
scons SCons
bazel Bazel
ndkbuild Android NDK ndk-build
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xmake-trybuild — xmake-io/xmake-skills