bake supports deriving configs, which allows you to put repetetive settings in a base config.
Derving a config in bake is pretty straight forward, and looks like this:
ExecutableConfig A
LibraryConfig B, extends: A
CustomConfig C, extends: B
ExecutableConfig D, extends: C
Note
The config type of the parent config does not matter, but only settings which are valid in BOTH configs will be inherited. In the example above D gets the dependencies from A, because “Dependency” is valid in all configs, but D does not get the “Files” from A, because “Files” is not valid in CustomConfig.
| Setting | Derived |
|---|---|
| Set | parent + child |
| Dependency | parent + child |
| ExternalLibrary | parent + child (ordered by line number) |
| ExternalLibrarySearchPath | parent + child (ordered by line number) |
| UserLibrary | parent + child (ordered by line number) |
| PreSteps | parent + child |
| PostSteps | parent + child |
| Makefile | used from parent if not in child |
| CommandLine | used from parent if not in child |
| Files | parent + child |
| ExcludeFiles | parent + child |
| IncludeDir | parent + child |
| LinkerScript | used from parent if not in child |
| ArtifactName | used from parent if not in child |
| MapFile | used from parent if not in child |
| Toolchain Setting | Derived |
|---|---|
| basedOn | used from parent if not in child |
| outputDir | used from parent if not in child |
| command | used from parent if not in child |
| LibPrefixFlags | parent + child |
| LibPostfixFlags | parent + child |
| Flags | parent + child |
| Define | parent + child |
| InternalDefines | used from parent if not in child |
| InternalIncludes | used from parent if not in child |
| LintPolicy | parent + child |
| Docu | used from parent if not in child |