How to use bake on command line

Call bake -h to display the command line options.

The most important options are:

-b the build configuration name
-m the main project directory (default is current directory)
-p the project to build (if not specified, the main project will be built with all dependencies) - note, that ALL configs of the project will be built, which is usually just one config, but if you have more than one config of the project in the workspace, use a comma separator.

Examples

If you want to build your application, switch to the directory of the main project and call (assuming "Debug" is a valid build setup name):

bake -b Debug

It is possible to omit "-b":

bake Debug

It Debug is the default configuration, it's just:

bake

If you are not in the directory of the main project you want to build:

bake Debug -m w:/root/mainProj

Building just mainProj project:

bake Debug -m w:/root1/myProj -p myProj

Assuming mainProj has several configs really included in the build (which is uncommon), you can choose one of the configs like this:

bake Debug -m w:/root1/myProj -p myProj,abc

Code has been checked out into two roots, the console supports ansi colors, you want to stop on first error and build only the project bspAbc:

bake Debug -m w:/root1/myProj -w w:/root1 -w w:/root2 -r -a black -p bspAbc

To clean the project(s), just add "-c":

bake Debug -m w:/root1/myProj -w w:/root1 -w w:/root2 -r -a black -p bspAbc -c

To build single file(s), use "-f". All files matching this pattern will be compiled (no wildcards allowed):

bake Debug -p bspAbc -f main.cpp
bake Debug -f .asm

Workspace roots can be defined in a file called "roots.bake", which will be searched from main project directory to root folder. Example:

../..
C:/another/root # comments written like this
something/else

If -w and roots.bake are not specified, the default workspace root is the parent directory of the main project.