Premake 5.0 alpha 9

Changes since the previous release:

• New: buildcustomizations() imports custom .props files for VS
• New: frameworksdir() for Xcode and Make OS X projects
• New: nuget() to specify NuGet packages for VS projects
• New: systemversion() to specify VS target platform
• New: io.readfile() and io.writefile()
• New: Configurations may now be filtered by toolset
• New: HTTP calls now support authentication
• New: Support for XSD files in VS C# projects
• New: MASM file categorization for VS
• New: Integrated test framework for Premake module developers
• Fix: VS filter ordering is now deterministic
• Fix: VS projects and groups may now have the same name
• Fix: May now use '.' within shell variable tokens
• Fix: path.translate() now defaults to target system separator
• Fix: getextension() now handles multiple dots
• Fix: replaceextension() no longer adds leading dot
• Fix: Improved configuration baking performance
• Fix: Use -O0 for Clang debug optimization level
• Fix: CodeLite now uses portable path separators
• Fix: Improved ability to find precompiled headers in Makefiles
• Fix: Properly escape defines in Makefile projects
• Fix: Correct casing of UTF8 marker on Visual Studio rule files

IMPORTANT: Please download our source code package premake-5.0.0-alpha9-src.zip and NOT the automatically created GitHub packages at the bottom of the list.

The GitHub packages do not include the submodule source code, the pre-generated profile files, or the embedded scripts.