Commands

Here are some descriptions of general commands. You can get the list of the all commands with a short description by zenmake help or zenmake --help. To get help on selected command you can use zenmake help <selected command> or zenmake <selected command> --help. Some commands have short aliases. For example you can use bld instead of build and dc instead of distclean.

configure

Configure the project. In most cases you don’t need to call this command directly. The build command calls this command by itself if necessary. This command processes most of values from buildconf of a project. Any change in buildconf leads to call of this command. You can change this behaviour with parameter autoconfig in buildconf general features.

build

Build the project in the current directory. It’s the main command. To see all possible parameters use zenmake help build or zenmake build --help. For example you can use -v to see more info about building process or -p to use progress bar instead of text logging. By default it calls the configure command by itself if necessary.

test

Build (if necessery) and run tests in the current directory. If the project has no tests it’s almost the same as running the build command. The test command builds and runs tests by default while the build command doesn’t.

run

Build the project (if necessery) and run one executable target from the build directory. You can specify build task/target to run if the project has more than one executable targets or omit it if the project has only one executable target. To provide command line args directly to your program you can put them after ‘–’ in command line after all args for ZenMake. This command is for fast checking of the built project.

clean

Remove build files for selected buildtype of the project. It doesn’t touch other build files.

cleanall

Remove the build directory of the project with everything in it.

install

Install the build targets in some destination directory using installation prefix. It builds targets by itself if necessary. You can control paths with environment variables or command line parameters (see zenmake help install). It looks like classic make install in common.

uninstall

Remove the build targets installed with the install command.