A rule for building projects using the GNU Make build tool

Rules

make

Rule for building external libraries with GNU Make. GNU Make commands (make and make install by default) are invoked with prefix="install" (by default), and other environment variables for compilation and linking, taken from Bazel C/C++ toolchain and passed dependencies.

name

A unique name for this target.

additional_inputs

Optional additional inputs to be declared as needed for the shell script action.Not used by the shell script part in cc_external_rule_impl.

additional_tools

Optional additional tools needed for the building. Not used by the shell script part in cc_external_rule_impl.

Optional. if true, link all the object files from the static library, even if they are not used.

args

A list of arguments to pass to the call to make

data

Files needed by this rule at runtime. May list file or rule targets. Generally allows any target.

defines

Optional compilation definitions to be passed to the dependencies of this library. They are NOT passed to the compiler, you should duplicate them in the configuration options.

deps

Optional dependencies to be copied into the directory structure. Typically those directly required for the external building of the library/binaries. (i.e. those that the external buidl system will be looking for and paths to which are provided by the calling rule)

env

Environment variables to set during the build. $(execpath) macros may be used to point at files which are listed as data deps, tools_deps, or additional_tools, but unlike with other rules, these will be replaced with absolute paths to those files, because the build does not run in the exec root. No other macros are supported.

lib_name

Library name. Defines the name of the install directory and the name of the static library, if no output files parameters are defined (any of static_libraries, shared_libraries, interface_libraries, binaries_names) Optional. If not defined, defaults to the target's name.

lib_source

Label with source code to build. Typically a filegroup for the source of remote repository. Mandatory.

linkopts

Optional link options to be passed up to the dependencies of this library

out_bin_dir

Optional name of the output subdirectory with the binary files, defaults to 'bin'.

out_binaries

Optional names of the resulting binaries.

out_headers_only

Flag variable to indicate that the library produces only headers

out_include_dir

Optional name of the output subdirectory with the header files, defaults to 'include'.

out_interface_libs

Optional names of the resulting interface libraries.

out_lib_dir

Optional name of the output subdirectory with the library files, defaults to 'lib'.

out_shared_libs

Optional names of the resulting shared libraries.

out_static_libs

Optional names of the resulting static libraries. Note that if out_headers_only, out_static_libs, out_shared_libs, and out_binaries are not set, default lib_name.a/lib_name.lib static library is assumed

postfix_script

Optional part of the shell script to be added after the make commands

targets

A list of targets within the foreign build system to produce. An empty string ("") will result in a call to the underlying build system with no explicit target set

tools_deps

Optional tools to be copied into the directory structure. Similar to deps, those directly required for the external building of the library/binaries.