Universal STM8 Builder is a build script, targeting STM8 microcontrollers, that works most of the time. It frees you from dealing with complex Makefile by offering a more simplistic one.

It takes time for creating and maintaining a build script for each C project, and most of them are not that much different after all.
If a project can fit with some conventions and constraints, enable them to use a shared build script, why bother wasting time tailor a build script just to use once?

• Third-party libraries should be placed inside a single directory. (Default to ./vendor)
• Application source files should be placed in ./src.
• The build result will appear in ./bin.
• No fancy stuff (assembly language compilation and linking, some niche debugging capabilities)
• By default, the script will not look too deep into the directory containing third-party's libraries to prevent conflicts between dependencies.

The dependencies of your dependencies are your dependencies.
The build script won't look too deep into the directories of third-party libraries, leaving dependencies of dependencies alone without compiling them.
The recommended way to manage dependencies is to have a copy of them as your direct dependencies. Allowing third-party libraries that depends on the different version of the same library to co-exist. (If the interface allows) The final decision of which version to use is yours.

It is recommended that you embrace the constraints, but as you may know, you can still customize your Makefile to your heart content, and this script will happily getting along with yours.
The constraints listed are not really rigid, but they lessen your works most of the time.

• Small Device C Compiler version >= 3.9.0
• GNU Make
• GNU Bash

• Include this script into your main Makefile
• Configure some variables
• Profits

Examples

• A library compilation example
• An embedded application compilation example

Universal STM8 Builder is released under the MIT License. 🎉