Generating dot graphsΒΆ

In larger workspaces it’s often hard to understand the dependency structure. With bake you can generate a dot file (see http://www.graphviz.org):

bake ... --dot <dot filename>

The dot file is a text file with all dependencies included. It is easy to render an image, e.g. with

tred <dot filename> | dot -Tpng -o <png image filename>
../_images/dot.png
  • Projects are rectangles
  • Configs are ellipses
  • CustomConfigs are red
  • ExecutableConfigs are green
  • LibraryConfigs are cyan

It’s possible to generate only a part of the whole graph with -p (same as for building only a part of the code). e.g.:

bake ... --dot <dot filename> -p lib2
bake ... --dot <dot filename> -p lib2,testa

Which results in:

../_images/dotP.png ../_images/dotPC.png