compiletools 4.1.30

Tools to make compiling C/C++ projects easy

Author:

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Date:

2016-08-09

Copyright:

Copyright (C) 2011-2016 Zomojo Pty Ltd

Version:

4.1.30

Manual section:

1

Manual group:

developers

SYNOPSIS

ct-* [compilation args] [filename.cpp] [–variant=<VARIANT>]

DESCRIPTION

The various ct-* tools exist to build C/C++ executables with almost no configuration. For example, to build a C or C++ program, type

ct-cake –auto

which will try to determine the correct source files to generate executables from and also determine the tests to build and run.

A variant is a configuration file that specifies various configurable settings like the compiler and compiler flags. Common variants are “debug” and “release”.

Options are parsed using python-configargparse. This means they can be passed in on the command line, as environment variables or in config files. Command-line values override environment variables which override config file values which override defaults. Note that the environment variables are captilized. That is, a command line option of –magic=cpp is the equivalent of an environment variable MAGIC=cpp.

Other notable tools are

• ct-headertree: provides information about structure of the include files

• ct-filelist: provides the list of files needed to be included in a tarball (e.g. for packaging)

SEE ALSO

• ct-build

• ct-build-dynamic-library

• ct-build-static-library

• ct-cache

• ct-cache-clean

• ct-cake

• ct-cmakelists

• ct-config

• ct-cppdeps

• ct-create-cmakelists

• ct-create-makefile

• ct-filelist

• ct-findtargets

• ct-gitroot

• ct-headertree

• ct-jobs

• ct-list-variants

• ct-magicflags