Re: [Premake-users] Custom Build Commands starting

[Konstantin T. <an...@ya...>]

12.03.2012, 22:49, "Jason Perkins" <st...@in...>:
>>  Also, how %(file.abspath) and similar patterns are planned to work?
>
> I will add this to the wiki, since it going to have to be as part of 4.5.
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> My intention is to provide a few context objects: sln, prj, cfg, and file. You can then access any field of those objects:
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>         %(sln.name)
>         %(prj.location)
>         %(cfg.targetdir)
>
> The contents of the $() would be run through loadstring() and executed at token-replacement time, so in theory more complex replacements could be used.
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>         %(sln.name:gsub(' ', '_'))

Seems to be powerful enough. I propose additional variable files with complete list of input files for rule for current configuration. It could be used for "combined" compilations like

sometool %(files) -o combined.out

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Regards,
Konstantin