Bilder Hierarchy

Bilder Hierarchy

It is possible to specialize Bilder: per machine, per poject and per person. by sourcing file(s) at each level of hierarchy:

Bilder default settings

When no specialization files are used, Bilder uses the default settings for the project.

By Machine

Set of machine files under bilder/machines directory to specify machine specific variables and settings. For example, to build a project on Windows platform with cygwin using Visual Studio 9, we have cygwin.vs9 machine file which sets up the environment as needed by Visual Studio 9. The machine files can be specified by "-m" option.

By Project

Please see [wiki:ConfiguringBilder Configuring Bilder] on how to set up per project configurations. Here, information needed for the project such as where to obtain third party dependency libraries, default installation directories, set the various variables defining where builds should take place, where installations should go, etc. can be specified.

By Person

Default settings using .bilddefrc

Every person building a project using Bilder can specify his/her own default settings by creating a .bilddefrc file in their home directory. This will be sourced in the mkXYZall-default.sh file to override any other default project settings.

Settings using .bilderrc

Every person building a project using Bilder can specify his/her own settings by creating a .bilderrc file in their home directory. This will be sourced in the mkXYZall.sh file to override any other project settings.

Per package per person

In cases where it is necessary to specify settings per package per person, a XYZ.conf file can be specified in the BILDER_CONFDIR/packages directory. If found, this file will be sourced in the mkXYZ.sh script to override all the other settings. If this file is modified, then Bilder will reconfigure and build the package.