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Welcome to the Premake 5 User Guide!

Getting Started

• What Is Premake?
• Using Premake
• Building Premake
• Getting Help

Writing Premake Scripts

• Your First Script
• Workspaces and Projects
• Scopes and Inheritance
• Adding Source Files
• Linking
• Configurations and Platforms
• Filters
• Build Settings
• Usages and Uses
• Command Line Arguments
• Using Modules
• More Topics…

Extending Premake

• Introduction
• Code Overview
• Coding Conventions
• Overrides and Call Arrays
• Developing Modules
• Adding a New Action

Premake Reference

• Project API
• Lua Library Additions
• Available Modules
• Supported Feature Matrix
• What's New in 5.0
• Migrating From 4.x

Contributing to Premake

• How You Can Help
• Development Roadmap
• How To Submit Changes