Download links to Premake4

[KyrietS]

There are 3 pages in the wiki with incorrect links to Premake4 download page:

• Home
• Building Premake
• Premake Quick Start

The first two of them point to "http://premake.github.io/premake-core/download.html" and the third one has a link to "http://premake.github.io/download.html".

All of them are incorrect. It's not possible to download Premake4 binary from our new website. I don't even now how to get a binary of Premake4 at this moment 😄

• Fix broken links to Download Premake4
• Host a compiled version of Premake4 somewhere (maybe add a new Release in this repo?)

[rachhan9]

Hi, any updates on this? thanks

[KyrietS]

Hi, I completely forgot about it. You can still access download links from the old version of Premake's website via Internet Archive. For your convenience I will put them here.

Premake 4.4 (beta)

The latest in Premake's 4.x stable branch.

Release	Download link
For Windows	premake-4.4-beta5-windows.zip
For Linux	premake-4.4-beta5-linux.tar.gz
For macOS	premake-4.4-beta5-macosx.tar.gz

[Jackabomb]

I was also able to download binaries from the old sourceforge page.

[assarbad]

@KyrietS @rachhan9 @Jackabomb Apparently this passed completely by me. I've been offering code-signed versions of premake4 for quite some time (I'm offering them for Windows only, though; Linux wouldn't be an issue either, but I rarely use it on Linux these days ... despite using Linux a lot). True, it's a fork that also adds support for newer VS versions (i.e. vs2012 through vs2022), but I personally consider that an advantage rather than a disadvantage.

You can find them here. I've continued to use Premake4, despite some minor issues encountered. Although admittedly my own premake4.lua files have grown considerably in order to patch some behavior.

[Jackabomb]

@assarbad Thanks for pointing that out! I love WinDirStat, and never realized there was a connection to this project.

The project I needed Premake for is on the back-burner at the moment, but I am still interested in this issue.
I noticed today that the wiki has an edit button, so I took the liberty of updating the three pages @KyrietS noted with links to this issue and to the three download locations we've identified here. Feel free to revert; I understand if you prefer not to advertise half-baked solutions or a fork.

[assarbad]

@Jackabomb not really a connection to speak of. I contributed to Premake4 back in the day and when Jason moved on to 5.x, I decided to fork.

Quite frankly I am contemplating to create a premake20 (i.e. 4x5), so to speak. It should be possible if I manage to heave Premake4 onto the same Lua version as Premake5 currently has. Then I'd need to bolt on two things:

• Command line switches -4 and -5 to prefer either of these Premake flavors
• By default prefer premake5.lua, falling back to premake4.lua when the former was not found.

But I don't know if I will find the time and inclination to do it in the end. It'd be a nice thing to have, IMO, because it helps bridging the gap. Strictly speaking I'd probably also want and have to formalize my patches and upstream them with Jason, if he's still willing to take them.