cinit

A command-line tool created to help you initialize C and C++ projects. Works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. It creates a directory with the name of the project and inside it, it creates a src/, include/ and build/ subdirectories. It also creates a Makefile with the basic structure to compile the project.

Installation

To install cinit, you can use the following command:

git clone https://github.com/SzAkos04/cinit.git
cd cinit
make release

On Windows, make release may give some errors, but the tool should still work.

Optionally, add the cinit/build directory to your PATH environment variable to access the tool globally.

Usage

The tool has three commands:

• cinit c|create <project_name> --args: Creates a new project with the given name.
• cinit i|init (<project_name>) --args: Initializes the project in the current directory.
• cinit --help: Shows the help message.

The cinit create command creates a new project with the given name.

The cinit init command initializes the project in the current directory.

The --args flag is optional, and it can be used to pass additional arguments to the project, such as --cpp to create a C++ project instead of the default C one.

The cinit --help command shows the help message.

Example

Create a new project by running the following command:

cinit c my_project

(You can also use the --cpp flag to create a C++ project.)

Change to the new project directory:

cd my_project

Compile and run the project:

make

This will create a new project called my_project, and will run it. By default, it will print "Hello, World!" to the console.