[build2] Running commands in buildfile

[Phuwasate Lutchanont]

Thank you very much for the detail!

On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 at 21:36, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>
wrote:

> Phuwasate Lutchanont via users <users at build2.org> writes:
>
> > I would like to ask if there is any good resource or documentation for
> > learning the internal commands supported by the buildfile language? In
> > particular, I could not understand the code inside double curly braces
> > whenever I encountered them in the introduction and manual. I cannot seem
> > to find any thorough explanation on what is going on in the code anywhere
> > either.
>
> There is no proper documentation for this yet, but it's high up on my
> TODO list.
>
> The things in double curly braces are ad hoc recipes/rules. Currently,
> they can be written in Buildscript or C++, most commonly the former:
>
> https://build2.org/release/0.13.0.xhtml#adhoc-recipe
> https://build2.org/release/0.14.0.xhtml#adhoc-rules
> https://build2.org/release/0.15.0.xhtml#dyndep
> https://build2.org/release/0.16.0.xhtml#dyn-target
>
> Buildscript is a portable shell-like language that originated in
> Testscript. In a sense, these two languages shared a common "script"
> core. Testscript is well documented, and most of the core language
> documentation applies to Buildscript:
>
> https://build2.org/build2/doc/build2-testscript-manual.xhtml
>
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