Smelt is a small, declarative build system for C and C++ projects.

Is FloofyPlasma/smelt beginner-friendly?

The maintainers of FloofyPlasma/smelt usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
10
Forks
0
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
8
Avg merge
5m
Merged PRs (30d)
16
Dominant language
C++
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Nov 8, 2026
Latest indexed
Nov 11, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
good first issue

How to contribute to FloofyPlasma/smelt

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Smelt package caching.
    Open
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    FloofyPlasma/smelt#30 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Platform specific dependencies for targets
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

    FloofyPlasma/smelt#29 ·

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  • If .smelt doesn't exist, but smelt.lock does, smelt suggests the wrong command
    Open
    bug good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    FloofyPlasma/smelt#27 ·

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  • Support for shared libraries
    Open
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    FloofyPlasma/smelt#26 ·

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  • Support for build scripts?
    Open
    enhancement question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    FloofyPlasma/smelt#25 · 1 comment ·

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  • Support for header units
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    FloofyPlasma/smelt#24 ·

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  • Support for C++ modules from system packages.
    Open
    bug enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    FloofyPlasma/smelt#23 ·

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  • Define NDEBUG in release mode
    Open
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 67/100

    FloofyPlasma/smelt#22 · 1 comment ·

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