buildcommands
Specifies one or more shell commands to be executed to build a project or file.
buildcommands { "commands" }
Parameters
commands specifies a list of one or more shell commands to be executed. The commands may use tokens.
Applies To
Makefile projects and per-file custom build commands.
Availability
Premake 5.0 or later.
Examples
Use per-file custom build commands to compile all Lua files in a project to C:
filter 'files:**.lua'
-- A message to display while this build step is running (optional)
buildmessage 'Compiling %[%{file.relpath}]'
-- One or more commands to run (required)
buildcommands {
'luac -o "%[%{!cfg.objdir}/%{file.basename}.out]" "%[%{file.relpath}]"'
}
-- One or more outputs resulting from the build (required)
buildoutputs { '%{cfg.objdir}/%{file.basename}.c' }
Use a Makefile project to execute an external makefile.
workspace "Workspace"
configurations { "Debug", "Release" }
project "MyProject"
kind "Makefile"
buildcommands {
"make %{cfg.buildcfg}"
}
cleancommands {
"make clean %{cfg.buildcfg}"
}