Bakefile Manual

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Flow

2. Tutorial

Hello, world

3. Bakefile Concepts

Targets

Variables

Templates

Options

Conditions

Conditional Variables

Modules

Presets

Paths

4. Targets

Standard Target Types ("Rules")

exe

lib

dll

module

phony

action

subproject

Common tags

5. Commands Reference

Makefile Commands

set

unset

option

template

using

include

if

fragment

requires

error

warning

echo

Commands for Extending Bakefile

define-rule

define-tag

define-global-tag

add-target

modify-target

output

6. Frequently encountered issues

FIXME

7. Variables defined by Bakefile

Format independent variables

Changing Bakefile behaviour

Directories

Installation Directories

Recognizing Platform

Format features

Miscellaneous

Standard makefile variables

Format specific variables

autoconf

dmars, dmars_smake

msvs2005prj, msvs2008prj

msvs2003prj

8. Python functions

Introduction

How to use a Python function in a bakefile

Python functions

envvar

isconst

isdefined

isoption

iscondvar

ifthenelse

ref

isDeadTarget

substituteFromDict

nativePaths

addPrefixIfNotEmpty

addPrefixToList

safeSplit

fileList

removeDuplicates

9. Format specific documentation

MS VisualStudio 2005/2008 extended functionality

Watcom format extended functionality

Install and uninstall support on Windows

10. Modules

datafiles

data-files

data-files-ng

script-files

script-files-ng

data-files-tree

copy-files

copy-file-to-file

mkdir

pkgconfig

pkgconfig

11. Batch bakefile generation with bakefile_gen

Introduction

bakefile_gen tags

Processing order

I. Running Bakefile

bakefile — native makefiles generator

bakefile_gen — batch bakefile generation

bakefilize — prepare Bakefile project for use with Autoconf