Requirements:

• Builds .asm files using nasm
• Compile C/C++ files and link using Visual Studio 8 (2005) and 9 (2008), and Windows SDK 7.0.

• Supports .c, .cpp, .asm, .def and .obj sources
• Supports .bin, .dll, .exe and .obj output.
• Supports recursive builds of sub-folders.
• Supports wrapping .py files into self-executing .cmd files.

• Store build configuration information in build_config.py:
• Debug build (yes/no)
• global DEFINES
• Version number (passed as DEFINE during build).
• dependencies between files
• pre/postbuild commands to execute before/after building each file
• test commands to test the result of a build
• finish commands to finish a build
• Automatically incremented build number and build timestamp stored in build_info.txt file and also passed as DEFINE during build.
• Convert .py files to .cmd files using py2cmd.cmd.