The end of the year is coming up fast, and what a year it's been! From the new syntax introduced in 4.0 last February, to the platform features added in 4.1 over the summer, and now the spiffy new Xcode action. Not to mention all the other features and fixes!

If you've found Premake to be valuable to you this year, please consider throwing some change in the hat. I'll use the funds to keep the site running, and toward purchasing Visual Studio 2010 next year (and adding it to Premake, of course). If there is anything left over, well then I'll raise a glass at our favorite pub to you, the fine (and good looking!) Premake community.

The suggested donation is $5. Payments are handled through PayPal, but you don't need an account if you use a credit card. I never see your card details.

Whether you donate or not, I thank you all deeply and sincerely for being a part of the Premake community and helping make this the best year yet. Here's to an even better 2010!

The full change log for the year:

• Feature 1526976: Add support for Apple Xcode 3
• Feature 2900623: Add targetsuffix and implibsuffix properties
• Added project kind to list of configuration filters
• Clean action now removes MonoDevelop .pidb files correctly
• Added os.executef()
• Bug 2909463: Fix Xcode handling of Obj-C++ .mm files
• Bug 2903430: Using relative instead of absolute paths with $() macro
• Bug 2910691: Duplicate build options
• Bug 2910639: Nil reference on dylib project dependency
• Bug 2872066: Two test failures in 4.1.2

• Fixed ManagedExtension setting for Visual Studio
• Fixed os.match() bug for large result sets (David Raulo)
• Patch 2840052: Order problem of static link
• Patch 2802722: Floating Point Model Flags (Suigintou)
• Patch 2865333: Support for ObjC and ObjC++ sources (Johannes Spohr)
• Patch 2832852: Fix descriptions in cmd help (Sebastian Schuberth)
• Patch 2832848: Show default script name in help (Sebastian Schuberth)

• Use libtool instead of ar for Mac OS X Universal static libraries
• Fixed Xbox 360 linker settings in Visual Studio
• Remove platform-specific intermediate objects on clean
• Bug 2819232: Buildoptions not used when creating Makefile for C#
• Bug 2813297: OS X universal config should be "univ" (William Burnson)
• Bug 2814179: Xbox 360 precompiled headers not working

• Added support for cross-compiling target platforms
• Added Xbox 360 support to Visual Studio 2005/2008
• Added Mac OS X universal binary support
• Added Playstation 3 support
• Added precompiled header support for GCC
• Support links and libdirs for Visual Studio static libraries
• Fail gracefully when list is assigned to string field
• Changed GCC flags to -fno-exceptions and -fno-rtti
• Improved performance of configuration building step
• Fixed crash when configuration is missing a kind
• Patch 2031626: Support for additional manifest files (Colin Graf)
• Patch 2558089: workaround for --as-needed/correct link order (idl0r)
• Patch 2609028: verbose linking in makefile (kaidokert)
• Bug 2564404: FatalWarnings has no effect with gmake target
• Bug 2550759: pchheader option has wrong type
• Bug 1900333: Parentheses in build path
• Bug 2790865: SharedLib on OSX fixes (Ash Berlin)
• Bug 2790882: Trailing slash in path.getabsolute (Ash Berlin)
• Bug 2805763: GCC PCH breaks on path
• Bug 2709641: Location field does not propagate to projects
• Bug 2675518: Dependencies wrong on config links
• Bug 2152526: Code::Blocks doesn't build PCH correctly on GCC
• Removed additional MonoDevelop files in clean action
• Fixed naming of system libraries in Visual Studio link step
• Set OS to Windows when generating for Visual Studio
• Bug 2801257: Linker error LNK1112 when cross-compiling for x64

• A new, more readable and extensible syntax for projects
• More robust syntax validation
• A new command-line format, with better argument validation
• Improved path handling across all project settings
• Upgraded to Lua 5.1.4
• Many, many bug fixes
• Set Mac OS X linker flags for Code::Blocks
• Bug 2533504: Files above project root not added to project
• Embed scripts instead of bytecodes to avoid portability issues
• solution() and project() now only set the active object when called with a name; remains unchanged otherwise
• Bug: GCC Windows release builds of Premake4 crash on script errors
• Patched Lua to load precompiled bytecodes on PPC architectures.
• Display paths of generated files
• Enabled use of absolute Windows paths to different drive letter
• Bug: Post-build commands run before build on Code::Blocks
• Removed FatalWarnings build flag
• Fixed GCC 4.2 warnings (Ryan Pusztai)
• Enable Windows linking to shared libraries even with NoImportLib flag set (just in case)
• Fixed handling of paths in links
• Added "ToolsVersion" attribute to VS2005 and VS2008 C# projects
• Fixed separator between library dependencies in C++ makefiles
• Added missing os.copyfile() function
• Bug: Sometimes takes a long time to complete on Linux
• Enabled Lua popen support on Linux and Mac OS X

Once again, thank you!