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Will need to add in functionality to configure a command to be run both before and after the main script is run. This will allow for the build system to be used as part of a larger system, for example, it could report the status of the build to a build server.

Need to ensure that when a .cpp is to be built, it is only done so when required. This will help prevent needless recompiles of files, and potentially avoid re-linking.

Currently the build system always links, this should be avoided.

Something akin to calling the build program in 'debug' mode. Would be nice if 'extra' options could be passed via the command line to toggle things like certain flags.
an example could be something like calling perl pinkpill.pl debug and have the flags string contain #[debug]^DEBUG where the '#' denotes you are wish to only match the following item if is passed via command line, and the square brackets wrap the term you wish to match. This should allow it to be combined with things like OS toggles.

Currently there is no way to tell the linker what additional libraries you wish to use. This is a bug and needs to be fixed.

Need to look at allowing the compilation of each file to split into many threads thus gaining the benefit of multiple cores.

Should probably do this via a 'max threads' variable.

When compiling files to '.o' files, they are saved to the local folder when the script is run. They should be saved to the folder that is set by 'obj_folder'.

It has been implemented for linux, but needs to also cover windows and mac static libraries too

When creating a static library, need to ensure that it is actually required.

Need reduce the amount of output that pinkpill produces. This might also need to be coupled with more control levels, such debug messages, basic messages (such as what command is about to be run), info for what stage the compilation is at and verbose. Verbose might not be required, it would be more information then info, but not as much as debug.

whilst gcc is fairly standard for linux for other platforms it is not.

The platform selection strings should be used so that you can define what compiler to use for what platforms. eg

linux^gcc win^mingw osx^mingw

Despite not logging any warnings, the stage that ensures all required folders are built is failing to create the build and object folder