NAME

pake 

AUTHOR

Krzysztof Suchomski

Contact:
krzysztof.suchomski at gmail dot com

SYNOPSIS

Calling program:

pake [options] [tasks]

DESCRIPTION

Pakefile is a script where you define tasks and their dependencies. Within the Pakefile you can access any previosuly defined object using Pake::Application

pake program run task specified in the command line and executes it with dependencies defined in Pakefile.

pake comes with predefined tasks for file and directory manipulations and for running tests. For details refer to other Modules

Pakefile script is a normal perl scipt, by default executed with:

use strict;
use warnings;

OPTIONS

-T, prints all tasks with descriptions defined in the Pakefile 
-f FILE, changes the script file name to the specified, default Pakefile
-h, print help contents
-d DIR, changes the working directory
-D,  prints all tasks with dependencies
-r, Dry run, executes Pakefile to check if script is properly formed
-V, prints pake version

EXAMPLE PAKEFILE

	#default task
  	default "test2";
	
	desc "task simply prints test";
	task {
		print "test\n";
	} "test";
	
	desc "task test1 depends on test"
	task {
		print "test1\n";
	} "test1" => ["test"];
	
	desc "task test2 depends on test and test1";
	task {
		print "test2\n";
	}

	#run: pake src/com/test
	desc "Directory Task, it will be executed only if directory does not exists";
	directory{
	
	} "src/com/test";
	
	#file dependencies are executed only if the files created by tasks changed
	file {} "biblioteka.c" => [];
	
	file {
		`gcc -c biblioteka.c`
	} "biblioteka.o" => ["src/com/test","biblioteka.c"];
	
	file {
	    `gcc -o program program.c biblioteka.o`
	} "program" => ["biblioteka.o"];
	
	#End script with something true
	1;