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The OMake user guide and reference manual (version 0.10.2)Jason Hickey, Aleksey Nogin, et. al.1stFebruary, 2017 |
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If you are new to OMake, you the omake-quickstart presents a short introduction that describes how to set up a project. The omake-build-examples gives larger examples of build projects, and omake-language-examples presents programming examples.
omake is designed for building projects that might have source files in several directories. Projects are normally specified using an OMakefile in each of the project directories, and an OMakeroot file in the root directory of the project. The OMakeroot file specifies general build rules, and the OMakefiles specify the build parameters specific to each of the subdirectories. When omake runs, it walks the configuration tree, evaluating rules from all of the OMakefiles. The project is then built from the entire collection of build rules.
Dependency analysis has always been problematic with the make(1) program. omake
addresses this by adding the .SCANNER target, which specifies a command to produce
dependencies. For example, the following rule
.SCANNER: %.o: %.c
$(CC) $(INCLUDE) -MM $<
is the standard way to generate dependencies for .c files. omake will automatically
run the scanner when it needs to determine dependencies for a file.
Dependency analysis in omake uses MD5 digests to determine whether files have changed. After each run, omake stores the dependency information in a file called .omakedb in the project root directory. When a rule is considered for execution, the command is not executed if the target, dependencies, and command sequence are unchanged since the last run of omake. As an optimization, omake does not recompute the digest for a file that has an unchanged modification time, size, and inode number.
For users already familiar with the make(1) command, here is a list of differences to keep in mind when using omake.
StaticCLibrary and CProgram),
described in Chapter 13, to specify these builds more simply.
.SUFFIXES and the .suf1.suf2: are not supported.
You should use wildcard patterns instead %.suf2: %.suf1.
.PHONY
targets (see Section 8.10) before they are used.
.SUBDIRS: target (see Section 8.8).
To start a new project, the easiest method is to change directories to the project
root and use the command omake --install to install default OMakefiles.
$ cd ~/newproject
$ omake --install
*** omake: creating OMakeroot
*** omake: creating OMakefile
*** omake: project files OMakefile and OMakeroot have been installed
*** omake: you should edit these files before continuing
The default OMakefile contains sections for building C and OCaml programs. For now, we’ll build a simple C project.
Suppose we have a C file called hello_code.c containing the following code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("Hello world\n");
return 0;
}
To build the program a program hello from this file, we can use the
CProgram function.
The OMakefile contains just one line that specifies that the program hello is
to be built from the source code in the hello_code.c file (note that file suffixes
are not passed to these functions).
CProgram(hello, hello_code)
Now we can run omake to build the project. Note that the first time we run omake,
it both scans the hello_code.c file for dependencies, and compiles it using the cc
compiler. The status line printed at the end indicates how many files were scanned, how many
were built, and how many MD5 digests were computed.
$ omake hello
*** omake: reading OMakefiles
*** omake: finished reading OMakefiles (0.0 sec)
- scan . hello_code.o
+ cc -I. -MM hello_code.c
- build . hello_code.o
+ cc -I. -c -o hello_code.o hello_code.c
- build . hello
+ cc -o hello hello_code.o
*** omake: done (0.5 sec, 1/6 scans, 2/6 rules, 5/22 digests)
$ omake
*** omake: reading OMakefiles
*** omake: finished reading OMakefiles (0.1 sec)
*** omake: done (0.1 sec, 0/4 scans, 0/4 rules, 0/9 digests)
If we want to change the compile options, we can redefine the CC and CFLAGS
variables before the CProgram line. In this example, we will use the gcc
compiler with the -g option. In addition, we will specify a .DEFAULT target
to be built by default. The EXE variable is defined to be .exe on Win32
systems; it is empty otherwise.
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
CProgram(hello, hello_code)
.DEFAULT: hello$(EXE)
Here is the corresponding run for omake.
$ omake
*** omake: reading OMakefiles
*** omake: finished reading OMakefiles (0.0 sec)
- scan . hello_code.o
+ gcc -g -I. -MM hello_code.c
- build . hello_code.o
+ gcc -g -I. -c -o hello_code.o hello_code.c
- build . hello
+ gcc -g -o hello hello_code.o
*** omake: done (0.4 sec, 1/7 scans, 2/7 rules, 3/22 digests)
We can, of course, include multiple files in the program. Suppose we write a new
file hello_helper.c. We would include this in the project as follows.
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
CProgram(hello, hello_code hello_helper)
.DEFAULT: hello$(EXE)
As the project grows it is likely that we will want to build libraries of code.
Libraries can be built using the StaticCLibrary function. Here is an example
of an OMakefile with two libraries.
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
FOO_FILES = foo_a foo_b
BAR_FILES = bar_a bar_b bar_c
StaticCLibrary(libfoo, $(FOO_FILES))
StaticCLibrary(libbar, $(BAR_FILES))
# The hello program is linked with both libraries
LIBS = libfoo libbar
CProgram(hello, hello_code hello_helper)
.DEFAULT: hello$(EXE)
As the project grows even further, it is a good idea to split it into several directories.
Suppose we place the libfoo and libbar into subdirectories.
In each subdirectory, we define an OMakefile for that directory. For example, here
is an example OMakefile for the foo subdirectory.
INCLUDES += .. ../bar
FOO_FILES = foo_a foo_b
StaticCLibrary(libfoo, $(FOO_FILES))
Note the the INCLUDES variable is defined to include the other directories in the project.
Now, the next step is to link the subdirectories into the main project. The project OMakefile
should be modified to include a .SUBDIRS: target.
# Project configuration
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
# Subdirectories
.SUBDIRS: foo bar
# The libraries are now in subdirectories
LIBS = foo/libfoo bar/libbar
CProgram(hello, hello_code hello_helper)
.DEFAULT: hello$(EXE)
Note that the variables CC and CFLAGS are defined before the .SUBDIRS
target. These variables remain defined in the subdirectories, so that libfoo and libbar
use gcc -g.
If the two directories are to be configured differently, we have two choices. The OMakefile in each subdirectory can be modified with its configuration (this is how it would normally be done). Alternatively, we can also place the change in the root OMakefile.
# Default project configuration
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
# libfoo uses the default configuration
.SUBDIRS: foo
# libbar uses the optimizing compiler
CFLAGS += -O3
.SUBDIRS: bar
# Main program
LIBS = foo/libfoo bar/libbar
CProgram(hello, hello_code hello_helper)
.DEFAULT: hello$(EXE)
Note that the way we have specified it, the CFLAGS variable also contains the -O3
option for the CProgram, and hello_code.c and hello_helper.c file will both be
compiled with the -O3 option. If we want to make the change truly local to libbar, we
can put the bar subdirectory in its own scope using the section form.
# Default project configuration
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
# libfoo uses the default configuration
.SUBDIRS: foo
# libbar uses the optimizing compiler
section
CFLAGS += -O3
.SUBDIRS: bar
# Main program does not use the optimizing compiler
LIBS = foo/libfoo bar/libbar
CProgram(hello, hello_code hello_helper)
.DEFAULT: hello$(EXE)
Later, suppose we decide to port this project to Win32, and we discover that we need
different compiler flags and an additional library.
# Default project configuration
if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
CC = cl /nologo
CFLAGS += /DWIN32 /MT
export
else
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
export
# libfoo uses the default configuration
.SUBDIRS: foo
# libbar uses the optimizing compiler
section
CFLAGS += $(if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32), $(EMPTY), -O3)
.SUBDIRS: bar
# Default libraries
LIBS = foo/libfoo bar/libbar
# We need libwin32 only on Win32
if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
LIBS += win32/libwin32
.SUBDIRS: win32
export
# Main program does not use the optimizing compiler
CProgram(hello, hello_code hello_helper)
.DEFAULT: hello$(EXE)
Note the use of the export directives to export the variable definitions from the
if-statements. Variables in omake are scoped—variables in nested blocks (blocks
with greater indentation), are not normally defined in outer blocks. The export directive
specifies that the variable definitions in the nested blocks should be exported to their parent
block.
Finally, for this example, we decide to copy all libraries into a common lib directory. We
first define a directory variable, and replace occurrences of the lib string with the
variable.
# The common lib directory
LIB = $(dir lib)
# phony target to build just the libraries
.PHONY: makelibs
# Default project configuration
if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
CC = cl /nologo
CFLAGS += /DWIN32 /MT
export
else
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
export
# libfoo uses the default configuration
.SUBDIRS: foo
# libbar uses the optimizing compiler
section
CFLAGS += $(if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32), $(EMPTY), -O3)
.SUBDIRS: bar
# Default libraries
LIBS = $(LIB)/libfoo $(LIB)/libbar
# We need libwin32 only on Win32
if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
LIBS += $(LIB)/libwin32
.SUBDIRS: win32
export
# Main program does not use the optimizing compiler
CProgram(hello, hello_code hello_helper)
.DEFAULT: hello$(EXE)
In each subdirectory, we modify the OMakefiles in the library directories to install them
into the $(LIB) directory. Here is the relevant change to foo/OMakefile.
INCLUDES += .. ../bar
FOO_FILES = foo_a foo_b
StaticCLibraryInstall(makelib, $(LIB), libfoo, $(FOO_FILES))
Directory (and file names) evaluate to relative pathnames. Within the foo directory, the
$(LIB) variable evaluates to ../lib.
As another example, instead of defining the INCLUDES variable separately
in each subdirectory, we can define it in the toplevel as follows.
INCLUDES = $(ROOT) $(dir foo bar win32)
In the foo directory, the INCLUDES variable will evaluate to
the string .. . ../bar ../win32. In the bar directory,
it would be .. ../foo . ../win32. In the root directory it
would be . foo bar win32.
omake also handles recursive subdirectories. For example, suppose the foo
directory itself contains several subdirectories. The foo/OMakefile would then
contain its own .SUBDIRS target, and each of its subdirectories would
contain its own OMakefile.
By default, omake is also configured with functions for building OCaml programs.
The functions for OCaml program use the OCaml prefix. For example, suppose
we reconstruct the previous example in OCaml, and we have a file called hello_code.ml
that contains the following code.
open Printf let () = printf "Hello world\n"
An example OMakefile for this simple project would contain the following.
# Use the byte-code compiler
BYTE_ENABLED = true
NATIVE_ENABLED = false
OCAMLCFLAGS += -g
# Build the program
OCamlProgram(hello, hello_code)
.DEFAULT: hello.run
Next, suppose the we have two library subdirectories: the foo subdirectory
is written in C, the bar directory is written in OCaml, and we need to
use the standard OCaml Unix module.
# Default project configuration
if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
CC = cl /nologo
CFLAGS += /DWIN32 /MT
export
else
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g
export
# Use the byte-code compiler
BYTE_ENABLED = true
NATIVE_ENABLED = false
OCAMLCFLAGS += -g
# library subdirectories
INCLUDES += $(dir foo bar)
OCAMLINCLUDES += $(dir foo bar)
.SUBDIRS: foo bar
# C libraries
LIBS = foo/libfoo
# OCaml libraries
OCAML_LIBS = bar/libbar
# Also use the Unix module
OCAML_OTHER_LIBS = unix
# The main program
OCamlProgram(hello, hello_code hello_helper)
.DEFAULT: hello
The foo/OMakefile would be configured as a C library.
FOO_FILES = foo_a foo_b
StaticCLibrary(libfoo, $(FOO_FILES))
The bar/OMakefile would build an ML library.
BAR_FILES = bar_a bar_b bar_c OCamlLibrary(libbar, $(BAR_FILES))
OMake uses the OMakefile and OMakeroot files for configuring a project. The syntax of these files is the same, but their role is slightly different. For one thing, every project must have exactly one OMakeroot file in the project root directory. This file serves to identify the project root, and it contains code that sets up the project. In contrast, a multi-directory project will often have an OMakefile in each of the project subdirectories, specifying how to build the files in that subdirectory.
Normally, the OMakeroot file is boilerplate. The following listing is a typical example.
include $(STDLIB)/build/Common
include $(STDLIB)/build/C
include $(STDLIB)/build/OCaml
include $(STDLIB)/build/LaTeX
# Redefine the command-line variables
DefineCommandVars(.)
# The current directory is part of the project
.SUBDIRS: .
The include lines include the standard configuration files needed for the project. The
$(STDLIB) represents the omake library directory. The only required configuration
file is Common. The others are optional; for example, the $(STDLIB)/build/OCaml file
is needed only when the project contains programs written in OCaml.
The DefineCommandVars function defines any variables specified on the command line (as
arguments of the form VAR=<value>). The .SUBDIRS line specifies that the current
directory is part of the project (so the OMakefile should be read).
Normally, the OMakeroot file should be small and project-independent. Any project-specific
configuration should be placed in the OMakefiles of the project.
OMake version 0.9.6 introduced preliminary support for multiple, simultaneous versions of a
project. Versioning uses the vmount(dir1, dir2) function, which defines a “virtual mount”
of directory dir1 over directory dir2. A “virtual mount” is like a transparent
mount in Unix, where the files from dir1 appear in the dir2 namespace, but new files
are created in dir2. More precisely, the filename dir2/foo refers to: a) the file
dir1/foo if it exists, or b) dir2/foo otherwise.
The vmount function makes it easy to specify multiple versions of a project. Suppose we have
a project where the source files are in the directory src/, and we want to compile two
versions, one with debugging support and one optimized. We create two directories, debug and
opt, and mount the src directory over them.
section
CFLAGS += -g
vmount(-l, src, debug)
.SUBDIRS: debug
section
CFLAGS += -O3
vmount(-l, src, opt)
.SUBDIRS: opt
Here, we are using section blocks to define the scope of the vmount—you may not need
them in your project.
The -l option is optional. It specifies that files form the src directory should be
linked into the target directories (or copied, if the system is Win32). The links are added as
files are referenced. If no options are given, then files are not copied or linked, but filenames
are translated to refer directly to the src/ files.
Now, when a file is referenced in the debug directory, it is linked from the src
directory if it exists. For example, when the file debug/OMakefile is read, the
src/OMakefile is linked into the debug/ directory.
The vmount model is fairly transparent. The OMakefiles can be written as if
referring to files in the src/ directory—they need not be aware of mounting.
However, there are a few points to keep in mind.
vmount function for versioning, it wise to keep the source files
distinct from the compiled versions. For example, suppose the source directory contained a file
src/foo.o. When mounted, the foo.o file will be the same in all versions, which is
probably not what you want. It is better to keep the src/ directory pristine, containing no
compiled code.vmount -l option, files are linked into the version directory only if
they are referenced in the project. Functions that examine the filesystem (like $(ls ...))
may produce unexpected results.
Let’s explain the OMake build model a bit more. One issue that dominates this discussion is that OMake is based on global project analysis. That means you define a configuration for the entire project, and you run one instance of omake.
For single-directory projects this doesn’t mean much. For multi-directory projects it means a lot.
With GNU make, you would usually invoke the make program recursively for each directory in
the project. For example, suppose you had a project with some project root directory, containing a
directory of sources src, which in turn contains subdirectories lib and main.
So your project looks like this nice piece of ASCII art.
my_project/
|--> Makefile
`--> src/
|---> Makefile
|---> lib/
| |---> Makefile
| `---> source files...
`---> main/
|---> Makefile
`---> source files...
Typically, with GNU make, you would start an instance of make in my_project/; this
would in term start an instance of make in the src/ directory; and this would start
new instances in lib/ and main/. Basically, you count up the number of
Makefiles in the project, and that is the number of instances of make processes that
will be created.
The number of processes is no big deal with today’s machines (sometimes contrary the the author’s opinion, we
no longer live in the 1970s). The problem with the scheme was that each make process had a
separate configuration, and it took a lot of work to make sure that everything was consistent.
Furthermore, suppose the programmer runs make in the main/ directory, but the
lib/ is out-of-date. In this case, make would happily crank away, perhaps trying to
rebuild files in lib/, perhaps just giving up.
With OMake this changes entirely. Well, not entirely. The source structure is quite similar, we merely add some Os to the ASCII art.
my_project/
|--> OMakeroot (or Root.om)
|--> OMakefile
`--> src/
|---> OMakefile
|---> lib/
| |---> OMakefile
| `---> source files...
`---> main/
|---> OMakefile
`---> source files...
The role of each <dir>/OMakefile plays the same role as each <dir>/Makefile: it
describes how to build the source files in <dir>. The OMakefile retains much of syntax and
structure of the Makefile, but in most cases it is much simpler.
One minor difference is the presence of the OMakeroot in the project root. The main purpose of this
file is to indicate where the project root is in the first place (in case omake is
invoked from a subdirectory). The OMakeroot serves as the bootstrap file; omake starts by
reading this file first. Otherwise, the syntax and evaluation of OMakeroot is no different
from any other OMakefile.
The big difference is that OMake performs a global analysis. Here is what happens
when omake starts.
my_project/OMakefile has a rule,.SUBDIRS: src
and the my_project/src/OMakefile has a rule,
.SUBDIRS: lib main
omake uses these rules to read and evaluate every OMakefile in the project.
Reading and evaluation is fast. This part of the process is cheap.
omake determines which files are out-of-date
(using a global analysis), and starts the build process. This may take a while, depending on what
exactly needs to be done.
There are several advantages to this model. First, since analysis is global, it is much easier to
ensure that the build configuration is consistent–after all, there is only one configuration.
Another benefit is that the build configuration is inherited, and can be re-used, down the
hierarchy. Typically, the root OMakefile defines some standard boilerplate and
configuration, and this is inherited by subdirectories that tweak and modify it (but do not need to
restate it entirely). The disadvantage of course is space, since this is global analysis after all.
In practice rarely seems to be a concern; omake takes up much less space than your web browser even
on large projects.
Some notes to the GNU/BSD make user.
$(OSTYPE)
variable.Before we begin with examples, let’s ask the first question, “What is the difference between the project root OMakeroot and OMakefile?” A short answer is, there is no difference, but you must have an OMakeroot file (or Root.om file).
However, the normal style is that OMakeroot is boilerplate and is more-or-less the same for all projects. The OMakefile is where you put all your project-specific stuff.
To get started, you don’t have to do this yourself. In most cases you just perform the following step in your project root directory.
omake --install in your project root.
This will create the initial OMakeroot and OMakefile files that you can edit to get started.
To begin, let’s start with a simple example. Let’s say that we have a full directory tree, containing the following files.
my_project/
|--> OMakeroot
|--> OMakefile
`--> src/
|---> OMakefile
|---> lib/
| |---> OMakefile
| |---> ouch.c
| |---> ouch.h
| `---> bandaid.c
`---> main/
|---> OMakefile
|---> horsefly.c
|---> horsefly.h
`---> main.c
Here is an example listing.
my_project/OMakeroot:
# Include the standard configuration for C applications
open build/C
# Process the command-line vars
DefineCommandVars()
# Include the OMakefile in this directory.
.SUBDIRS: .
my_project/OMakefile:
# Set up the standard configuration
CFLAGS += -g
# Include the src subdirectory
.SUBDIRS: src
my_project/src/OMakefile:
# Add any extra options you like
CFLAGS += -O2
# Include the subdirectories
.SUBDIRS: lib main
my_project/src/lib/OMakefile:
# Build the library as a static library.
# This builds libbug.a on Unix/OSX, or libbug.lib on Win32.
# Note that the source files are listed _without_ suffix.
StaticCLibrary(libbug, ouch bandaid)
my_project/src/main/OMakefile:
# Some files include the .h files in ../lib
INCLUDES += ../lib
# Indicate which libraries we want to link against.
LIBS[] +=
../lib/libbug
# Build the program.
# Builds horsefly.exe on Win32, and horsefly on Unix.
# The first argument is the name of the executable.
# The second argument is an array of object files (without suffix)
# that are part of the program.
CProgram(horsefly, horsefly main)
# Build the program by default (in case omake is called
# without any arguments). EXE is defined as .exe on Win32,
# otherwise it is empty.
.DEFAULT: horsefly$(EXE)
Most of the configuration here is defined in the file build/C.om (which is part of the OMake
distribution). This file takes care of a lot of work, including:
StaticCLibrary and CProgram functions, which describe the canonical
way to build C libraries and programs.
Variables are inherited down the hierarchy, so for example, the value of CFLAGS in
src/main/OMakefile is “-g -O2”.
Let’s repeat the example, assuming we are using OCaml instead of C. This time, the directory tree looks like this.
my_project/
|--> OMakeroot
|--> OMakefile
`--> src/
|---> OMakefile
|---> lib/
| |---> OMakefile
| |---> ouch.ml
| |---> ouch.mli
| `---> bandaid.ml
`---> main/
|---> OMakefile
|---> horsefly.ml
|---> horsefly.mli
`---> main.ml
The listing is only a bit different.
my_project/OMakeroot:
# Include the standard configuration for OCaml applications
open build/OCaml
# Process the command-line vars
DefineCommandVars()
# Include the OMakefile in this directory.
.SUBDIRS: .
my_project/OMakefile:
# Set up the standard configuration
OCAMLFLAGS += -Wa
# Do we want to use the bytecode compiler,
# or the native-code one? Let's use both for
# this example.
NATIVE_ENABLED = true
BYTE_ENABLED = true
# Include the src subdirectory
.SUBDIRS: src
my_project/src/OMakefile:
# Include the subdirectories
.SUBDIRS: lib main
my_project/src/lib/OMakefile:
# Let's do aggressive inlining on native code
OCAMLOPTFLAGS += -inline 10
# Build the library as a static library.
# This builds libbug.a on Unix/OSX, or libbug.lib on Win32.
# Note that the source files are listed _without_ suffix.
OCamlLibrary(libbug, ouch bandaid)
my_project/src/main/OMakefile:
# These files depend on the interfaces in ../lib
OCAMLINCLUDES += ../lib
# Indicate which libraries we want to link against.
OCAML_LIBS[] +=
../lib/libbug
# Build the program.
# Builds horsefly.exe on Win32, and horsefly on Unix.
# The first argument is the name of the executable.
# The second argument is an array of object files (without suffix)
# that are part of the program.
OCamlProgram(horsefly, horsefly main)
# Build the program by default (in case omake is called
# without any arguments). EXE is defined as .exe on Win32,
# otherwise it is empty.
.DEFAULT: horsefly$(EXE)
In this case, most of the configuration here is defined in the file build/OCaml.om. In this
particular configuration, files in my_project/src/lib are compiled aggressively with the
option -inline 10, but files in my_project/src/lib are compiled normally.
The previous two examples seem to be easy enough, but they rely on the OMake standard library (the
files build/C and build/OCaml) to do all the work. What happens if we want to write a
build configuration for a language that is not already supported in the OMake standard library?
For this example, let’s suppose we are adopting a new language. The language uses the standard compile/link model, but is not in the OMake standard library. Specifically, let’s say we have the following setup.
.cat suffix (for Categorical Abstract Terminology).
.cat files are compiled with the catc compiler to produce .woof files
(Wicked Object-Oriented Format).
.woof files are linked by the catc compiler with the -c option to produce
a .dog executable (Digital Object Group). The catc also defines a -a option to
combine several .woof files into a library.
.cat can refer to other source files. If a source file a.cat contains a
line open b, then a.cat depends on the file b.woof, and a.cat must be
recompiled if b.woof changes. The catc function takes a -I option to define a
search path for dependencies.
To define a build configuration, we have to do three things.
.SCANNER rule for discovering dependency information for the source files.
.cat file to a .woof file.
.woof files to produce a .dog executable.
Initially, these definitions will be placed in the project root OMakefile.
Let’s start with part 2, defining a generic compilation rule. We’ll define the build rule as an
implicit rule. To handle the include path, we’ll define a variable CAT_INCLUDES that
specifies the include path. This will be an array of directories. To define the options, we’ll use
a lazy variable (Section 7.7). In case there
are any other standard flags, we’ll define a CAT_FLAGS variable.
# Define the catc command, in case we ever want to override it
CATC = catc
# The default flags are empty
CAT_FLAGS =
# The directories in the include path (empty by default)
INCLUDES[] =
# Compute the include options from the include path
PREFIXED_INCLUDES[] = $`(mapprefix -I, $(INCLUDES))
# The default way to build a .woof file
%.woof: %.cat
$(CATC) $(PREFIXED_INCLUDES) $(CAT_FLAGS) -c $<
The final part is the build rule itself, where we call the catc compiler with the include
path, and the CAT_FLAGS that have been defined. The $< variable represents the source
file.
For linking, we’ll define another rule describing how to perform linking. Instead of defining an implicit rule, we’ll define a function that describes the linking step. The function will take two arguments; the first is the name of the executable (without suffix), and the second is the files to link (also without suffixes). Here is the code fragment.
# Optional link options
CAT_LINK_FLAGS =
# The function that defines how to build a .dog program
CatProgram(program, files) =
# Add the suffixes
file_names = $(addsuffix .woof, $(files))
prog_name = $(addsuffix .dog, $(program))
# The build rule
$(prog_name): $(file_names)
$(CATC) $(PREFIXED_INCLUDES) $(CAT_FLAGS) $(CAT_LINK_FLAGS) -o $@ $+
# Return the program name
value $(prog_name)
The CAT_LINK_FLAGS variable is defined just in case we want to pass additional flags specific
to the link step. Now that this function is defined, whenever we want to define a rule for building
a program, we simply call the rule. The previous implicit rule specifies how to compile each source file,
and the CatProgram function specifies how to build the executable.
# Build a rover.dog program from the source
# files neko.cat and chat.cat.
# Compile it by default.
.DEFAULT: $(CatProgram rover, neko chat)
That’s it, almost. The part we left out was automated dependency scanning. This is one of the nicer features of OMake, and one that makes build specifications easier to write and more robust. Strictly speaking, it isn’t required, but you definitely want to do it.
The mechanism is to define a .SCANNER rule, which is like a normal rule, but it specifies how
to compute dependencies, not the target itself. In this case, we want to define a .SCANNER
rule of the following form.
.SCANNER: %.woof: %.cat
<commands>
This rule specifies that a .woof file may have additional dependencies that can be extracted
from the corresponding .cat file by executing the <commands>. The result of
executing the <commands> should be a sequence of dependencies in OMake format, printed to the
standard output.
As we mentioned, each .cat file specifies dependencies on .woof files with an
open directive. For example, if the neko.cat file contains a line open chat,
then neko.woof depends on chat.woof. In this case, the <commands> should print
the following line.
neko.woof: chat.woof
For an analogy that might make this clearer, consider the C programming language, where a .o
file is produced by compiling a .c file. If a file foo.c contains a line like
#include "fum.h", then foo.c should be recompiled whenever fum.h changes. That
is, the file foo.o depends on the file fum.h. In the OMake parlance, this is
called an implicit dependency, and the .SCANNER <commands> would print a line
like the following.
foo.o: fum.h
Now, returning to the animal world, to compute the dependencies of neko.woof, we
should scan neko.cat, line-by-line, looking for lines of the form open <name>. We
could do this by writing a program, but it is easy enough to do it in omake itself. We can
use the builtin awk function to scan the source file. One slight complication
is that the dependencies depend on the INCLUDE path. We’ll use the
find-in-path function to find them. Here we go.
.SCANNER: %.woof: %.cat
section
# Scan the file
deps[] =
awk($<)
case $'^open'
deps[] += $2
export
# Remove duplicates, and find the files in the include path
deps = $(find-in-path $(INCLUDES), $(set $(deps)))
# Print the dependencies
println($"$@: $(deps)")
Let’s look at the parts. First, the entire body is defined in a section because we are
computing it internally, not as a sequence of shell commands.
We use the deps variable to collect all the dependencies. The awk function scans the
source file ($<) line-by-line. For lines that match the regular expression ^open
(meaning that the line begins with the word open), we add the second word on the line to the
deps variable. For example, if the input line is open chat, then we would add the
chat string to the deps array. All other lines in the source file are ignored.
Next, the $(set $(deps)) expression removes any duplicate values in the deps array
(sorting the array alphabetically in the process). The find-in-path function then finds the
actual location of each file in the include path.
The final step is print the result as the string $"$@: $(deps)" The quotations are added to
flatten the deps array to a simple string.
To complete the example, let’s pull it all together into a single project, much like our previous example.
my_project/
|--> OMakeroot
|--> OMakefile
`--> src/
|---> OMakefile
|---> lib/
| |---> OMakefile
| |---> neko.cat
| `---> chat.cat
`---> main/
|---> OMakefile
`---> main.cat
The listing for the entire project is as follows. Here, we also include a function
CatLibrary to link several .woof files into a library.
my_project/OMakeroot:
# Process the command-line vars
DefineCommandVars()
# Include the OMakefile in this directory.
.SUBDIRS: .
my_project/OMakefile:
########################################################################
# Standard config for compiling .cat files
#
# Define the catc command, in case we ever want to override it
CATC = catc
# The default flags are empty
CAT_FLAGS =
# The directories in the include path (empty by default)
INCLUDES[] =
# Compute the include options from the include path
PREFIXED_INCLUDES[] = $`(mapprefix -I, $(INCLUDES))
# Dependency scanner for .cat files
.SCANNER: %.woof: %.cat
section
# Scan the file
deps[] =
awk($<)
case $'^open'
deps[] += $2
export
# Remove duplicates, and find the files in the include path
deps = $(find-in-path $(INCLUDES), $(set $(deps)))
# Print the dependencies
println($"$@: $(deps)")
# The default way to compile a .cat file
%.woof: %.cat
$(CATC) $(PREFIXED_INCLUDES) $(CAT_FLAGS) -c $<
# Optional link options
CAT_LINK_FLAGS =
# Build a library for several .woof files
CatLibrary(lib, files) =
# Add the suffixes
file_names = $(addsuffix .woof, $(files))
lib_name = $(addsuffix .woof, $(lib))
# The build rule
$(lib_name): $(file_names)
$(CATC) $(PREFIXED_INCLUDES) $(CAT_FLAGS) $(CAT_LINK_FLAGS) -a $@ $+
# Return the program name
value $(lib_name)
# The function that defines how to build a .dog program
CatProgram(program, files) =
# Add the suffixes
file_names = $(addsuffix .woof, $(files))
prog_name = $(addsuffix .dog, $(program))
# The build rule
$(prog_name): $(file_names)
$(CATC) $(PREFIXED_INCLUDES) $(CAT_FLAGS) $(CAT_LINK_FLAGS) -o $@ $+
# Return the program name
value $(prog_name)
########################################################################
# Now the program proper
#
# Include the src subdirectory
.SUBDIRS: src
my_project/src/OMakefile:
.SUBDIRS: lib main
my_project/src/lib/OMakefile:
CatLibrary(cats, neko chat)
my_project/src/main/OMakefile:
# Allow includes from the ../lib directory
INCLUDES[] += ../lib
# Build the program
.DEFAULT: $(CatProgram main, main ../cats)
Some notes. The configuration in the project OMakeroot defines the standard configuration, including
the dependency scanner, the default rule for compiling source files, and functions for building
libraries and programs.
These rules and functions are inherited by subdirectories, so the .SCANNER and build rules
are used automatically in each subdirectory, so you don’t need to repeat them.
At this point we are done, but there are a few things we can consider.
First, the rules for building cat programs is defined in the project OMakefile. If you had
another cat project somewhere, you would need to copy the OMakeroot (and modify it as
needed). Instead of that, you should consider moving the configuration to a shared library
directory, in a file like Cat.om. That way, instead of copying the code, you could include
the shared copy with an OMake command open Cat. The share directory should be added to your
OMAKEPATH environment variable to ensure that omake knows how to find it.
Better yet, if you are happy with your work, consider submitting it as a standard configuration (by
sending a request to omake@metaprl.org) so that others can make use of it too.
Some projects have many subdirectories that all have the same configuration. For instance, suppose you have a project with many subdirectories, each containing a set of images that are to be composed into a web page. Apart from the specific images, the configuration of each file is the same.
To make this more concrete, suppose the project has four subdirectories page1, page2,
page3, and page4. Each contains two files image1.jpg and image2.jpg
that are part of a web page generated by a program genhtml.
Instead of of defining a OMakefile in each directory, we can define it as a body to the
.SUBDIRS command.
.SUBDIRS: page1 page2 page3 page4
index.html: image1.jpg image2jpg
genhtml $+ > $@
The body of the .SUBDIRS is interpreted exactly as if it were the OMakefile, and it
can contain any of the normal statements. The body is evaluated in the subdirectory for each
of the subdirectories. We can see this if we add a statement that prints the current directory
($(CWD)).
.SUBDIRS: page1 page2 page3 page4
println($(absname $(CWD)))
index.html: image1.jpg image2jpg
genhtml $+ > $@
# prints
/home/jyh/.../page1
/home/jyh/.../page2
/home/jyh/.../page3
/home/jyh/.../page4
Of course, this specification is quite rigid. In practice, it is likely that each subdirectory will
have a different set of images, and all should be included in the web page. One of the easier
solutions is to use one of the directory-listing functions, like
glob or ls.
The glob function takes a shell pattern, and returns an array of
file with matching filenames in the current directory.
.SUBDIRS: page1 page2 page3 page4
IMAGES = $(glob *.jpg)
index.html: $(IMAGES)
genhtml $+ > $@
Another option is to add a configuration file in each of the subdirectories that defines
directory-specific information. For this example, we might define a file BuildInfo.om in
each of the subdirectories that defines a list of images in that directory. The .SUBDIRS
line is similar, but we include the BuildInfo file.
.SUBDIRS: page1 page2 page3 page4
include BuildInfo # Defines the IMAGES variable
index.html: $(IMAGES)
genhtml $+ > $@
Where we might have the following configurations.
page1/BuildInfo.om:
IMAGES[] = image.jpg
page2/BuildInfo.om:
IMAGES[] = ../common/header.jpg winlogo.jpg
page3/BuildInfo.om:
IMAGES[] = ../common/header.jpg unixlogo.jpg daemon.jpg
page4/BuildInfo.om:
IMAGES[] = fee.jpg fi.jpg foo.jpg fum.jpg
The other hardcoded specification is the list of subdirectories page1, ..., page4.
Rather than editing the project OMakefile each time a directory is added, we could compute it
(again with glob).
.SUBDIRS: $(glob page*)
index.html: $(glob *.jpg)
genhtml $+ > $@
Alternately, the directory structure may be hierarchical. Instead of using glob, we could
use the subdirs function, returns each of the directories in a hierarchy. For example, this
is the result of evaluating the subdirs function in the omake project root. The P
option, passed as the first argument, specifies that the listing is “proper,” it should not
include the omake directory itself.
osh> subdirs(P, .)
- : <array
/home/jyh/.../omake/mk : Dir
/home/jyh/.../omake/RPM : Dir
...
/home/jyh/.../omake/osx_resources : Dir>
Using subdirs, our example is now as follows.
.SUBDIRS: $(subdirs P, .)
index.html: $(glob *.jpg)
genhtml $+ > $@
In this case, every subdirectory will be included in the project.
If we are using the BuildInfo.om option. Instead of including every subdirectory, we could
include only those that contain a BuildInfo.om file. For this purpose, we can use the
find function, which traverses the directory hierarchy looking for files that match a test
expression. In our case, we want to search for files with the name BuildInfo.om.
Here is an example call.
osh> FILES = $(find . -name BuildInfo.om)
- : <array
/home/jyh/.../omake/doc/html/BuildInfo.om : File
/home/jyh/.../omake/src/BuildInfo.om : File
/home/jyh/.../omake/tests/simple/BuildInfo.om : File>
osh> DIRS = $(dirof $(FILES))
- : <array
/home/jyh/.../omake/doc/html : Dir
/home/jyh/.../omake/src : Dir
/home/jyh/.../omake/tests/simple : Dir>
In this example, there are three BuildInfo.om files, in the doc/html, src, and
tests/simple directories. The dirof function returns the directories for each of the
files.
Returning to our original example, we modify it as follows.
.SUBDIRS: $(dirof $(find . -name BuildInfo.om))
include BuildInfo # Defines the IMAGES variable
index.html: $(IMAGES)
genhtml $+ > $@
Sometimes, your project may include temporary directories–directories where you place intermediate
results. these directories are deleted whenever the project is cleanup up. This means, in
particular, that you can’t place an OMakefile in a temporary directory, because it will be
removed when the directory is removed.
Instead, if you need to define a configuration for any of these directories, you will need to define
it using a .SUBDIRS body.
section
CREATE_SUBDIRS = true
.SUBDIRS: tmp
# Compute an MD5 digest
%.digest: %.comments
echo $(digest $<) > $@
# Extract comments from the source files
%.comments: ../src/%.src
grep '^#' $< > $@
.DEFAULT: foo.digest
.PHONY: clean
clean:
rm -rf tmp
In this example, we define the CREATE_SUBDIRS variable as true, so that the tmp
directory will be created if it does not exist. The .SUBDIRS body in this example is a bit
contrived, but it illustrates the kind of specification you might expect. The clean
phony-target indicates that the tmp directory should be removed when the project is cleaned
up.
Projects are specified to omake with OMakefiles. The OMakefile has a format similar to a Makefile. An OMakefile has three main kinds of syntactic objects: variable definitions, function definitions, and rule definitions.
Variables are defined with the following syntax. The name is any sequence of alphanumeric
characters, underscore _, and hyphen -.
<name> = <value>
Values are defined as a sequence of literal characters and variable expansions. A variable
expansion has the form $(<name>), which represents the value of the <name>
variable in the current environment. Some examples are shown below.
CC = gcc CFLAGS = -Wall -g COMMAND = $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -O2
In this example, the value of the COMMAND variable is the string gcc -Wall -g -O2.
Unlike make(1), variable expansion is eager and pure (see also the section on Scoping). That is, variable values are expanded immediately and new variable definitions do not affect old ones. For example, suppose we extend the previous example with following variable definitions.
X = $(COMMAND) COMMAND = $(COMMAND) -O3 Y = $(COMMAND)
In this example, the value of the X variable is the string gcc -Wall -g -O2 as
before, and the value of the Y variable is gcc -Wall -g -O2 -O3.
Variables definitions may also use the += operator, which adds the new text to an existing definition. The following two definitions are equivalent.
# Add options to the CFLAGS variable CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) -Wall -g # The following definition is equivalent CFLAGS += -Wall -g
Arrays can be defined by appending the [] sequence to the variable name and defining initial
values for the elements as separate lines. Whitespace on each line is
taken literally. The following code sequence prints c d e.
X[] =
a b
c d e
f
println($(nth 1, $(X)))
The following characters are special to omake: $():,=#\. To treat
any of these characters as normal text, they should be escaped with the backslash
character \.
DOLLAR = \$
Newlines may also be escaped with a backslash to concatenate several lines.
FILES = a.c\
b.c\
c.c
Note that the backslash is not an escape for any other character, so the following works as expected (that is, it preserves the backslashes in the string).
DOSTARGET = C:\WINDOWS\control.ini
An alternative mechanism for quoting special text is the use $"..." escapes. The number of
double-quotations is arbitrary. The outermost quotations are not included in the text.
A = $""String containing "quoted text" ""
B = $"""Multi-line
text.
The # character is not special"""
Note that it is not possible to denote the empty string with this notation.
As a workaround, call the string function without parameters, as in
EMPTY = $(string)
Functions are defined using the following syntax.
<name>(<params>) =
<indented-body>
The parameters are a comma-separated list of identifiers, and the body must be placed on a separate set of lines that are indented from the function definition itself. For example, the following text defines a function that concatenates its arguments, separating them with a colon.
ColonFun(a, b) =
return($(a):$(b))
The return expression can be used to return a value from the function. A return
statement is not required; if it is omitted, the returned value is the value of the last expression
in the body to be evaluated. NOTE: as of version 0.9.6, return is a control
operation, causing the function to immediately return. In the following example, when the argument
a is true, the function f immediately returns the value 1 without evaluating the print
statement.
f(a) =
if $(a)
return 1
println(The argument is false)
return 0
In many cases, you may wish to return a value from a section or code block without returning from
the function. In this case, you would use the value operator. In fact, the value
operator is not limited to functions, it can be used any place where a value is required. In the
following definition, the variable X is defined as 1 or 2, depending on the value of a,
then result is printed, and returned from the function.
f_value(a) =
X =
if $(a)
value 1
else
value 2
println(The value of X is $(X))
value $(X)
Functions are called using the GNU-make syntax, $(<name> <args)),
where <args> is a comma-separated list of values. For example,
in the following program, the variable X contains the
value foo:bar.
X = $(ColonFun foo, bar)
If the value of a function is not needed, the function may also be called using standard function call notation. For example, the following program prints the string “She says: Hello world”.
Printer(name) =
println($(name) says: Hello world)
Printer(She)
It is sometimes useful to pass an argument that can be evaluated. For example,
the built-in function foreach takes an array of values, and runs some
code for every array element:
a[] =
p
q
foreach(x => ..., $(a))
println($"Next element: $(x)")
Note that you really have to write three dots - this is not an omission. The three dots reference the indented subsection immediately following.
This feature is very similar to passing anonymous functions. However, there
are subtle differences, in particular with respect to scoping. The
parameterized body behaves much like section, and exports of
private (statically-scoped) variables to the enclosing scope are possible.
This feature was introduced in version 0.9.8.6.
Functions can also have keyword parameters and arguments. The syntax of a keyword
parameter/argument is [~|?]<id> [= <expression>], where the keyword name <id>
is preceeded by the character ~ (for required arguments), or ? (for optional
arguments). If a default value = <expression> is provided, the argument is
always optional.
Keyword arguments and normal anonymous arguments are completely separate. Also, it is an error to pass a keyword argument to a function that does not define it as a keyword parameter.
osh>f(x, ?y = 1, z) =
add($(mul $x, 100), $(mul $y, 10), $z)
- : <fun 0>
osh>f(1, ~y = 2, 3)
- : 123 : Int
osh>f(1, 3, ~y = 2)
- : 123 : Int
osh>f(1, 3)
- : 113 : Int
osh>f(1, 2, 3)
*** omake error:
File -: line 11, characters 0-10
arity mismatch: expected 2 args, got 3
osh>f(~z = 7)
*** omake error:
File -: line 12, characters 0-8
no such keyword: z
An optional keyword argument defaults to the empty value.
osh> g(?x) =
println($">>>$x<<<")
- : <fun 0>
osh> g()
>>><<<
osh> g(~x = xxx)
>>>xxx<<<
It is an error to omit a required keyword argument.
osh> h(~x, ~y) =
println(x = $x; y = $y)
- : <fun 0>
osh> h(~y = 2, ~x = 1)
x = 1; y = 2
osh> h(~y = 2)
*** omake error:
File -: line 11, characters 0-9
keyword argument is required: x
This feature was introduced in version 0.9.8.6.
Functions that are marked with the classifier curry can be called with “too many” arguments.
It is expected that a curried function returns a function that consumes the remaining arguments.
All arguments must be specified.
osh>curry.f(x, y) =
println($"Got two arguments: x = $x, y = $y")
g(z) =
add($x, $y, $z)
osh> f(1, 2, 3)
Got two arguments: x = 1, y = 2
- : 6 : Int
osh> f(1, 2)
Got two arguments: x = 1, y = 2
*** omake error:
File -: line 62, characters 0-7
arity mismatch: expected 1 args, got 0
The function apply can be used to compute partial applications, whether or not the function
is labeled as a curried function.
osh> f1(a, ~b = 2, ~c = 3, d) =
println($"a = $a, b = $b, c = $c, d = $d")
- : <fun 0>
osh> f2 = $(apply $(f1), ~c = 13, 11)
- : <curry 0>
osh> f2(14, ~b = 12)
a = 11, b = 12, c = 13, d = 14
osh> f2(24)
a = 11, b = 2, c = 13, d = 24
Comments begin with the # character and continue to the end of the line.
Files may be included with the include or open form. The included file must use
the same syntax as an OMakefile.
include $(Config_file)
The open operation is similar to an include, but the file is included at most once.
open Config
# Repeated opens are ignored, so this
# line has no effect.
open Config
If the file specified is not an absolute filenmame, both include and
open operations search for the file based on the
OMAKEPATH variable. In case of the open directive, the search is
performed at parse time, and the argument to open may not
contain any expressions.
Scopes in omake are defined by indentation level. When indentation is increased, such as in the body of a function, a new scope is introduced.
The section form can also be used to define a new scope. For example, the following code
prints the line X = 2, followed by the line X = 1.
X = 1
section
X = 2
println(X = $(X))
println(X = $(X))
This result may seem surprising–the variable definition within the
section is not visible outside the scope of the section.
The export form, which will be described in detail in
Section 6.3, can be used to circumvent this restriction by
exporting variable values from an inner scope.
For example, if we modify the previous example
by adding an export expression, the new value for the X
variable is retained, and the code prints the line X = 2 twice.
X = 1
section
X = 2
println(X = $(X))
export
println(X = $(X))
There are also cases where separate scoping is quite important. For example, each OMakefile is evaluated in its own scope. Since each part of a project may have its own configuration, it is important that variable definitions in one OMakefile do not affect the definitions in another.
To give another example, in some cases it is convenient to specify a
separate set of variables for different build targets. A frequent
idiom in this case is to use the section command to define a
separate scope.
section
CFLAGS += -g
%.c: %.y
$(YACC) $<
.SUBDIRS: foo
.SUBDIRS: bar baz
In this example, the -g option is added to the CFLAGS
variable by the foo subdirectory, but not by the bar and
baz directories. The implicit rules are scoped as well and in this
example, the newly added yacc rule will be inherited by the foo
subdirectory, but not by the bar and baz ones; furthermore
this implicit rule will not be in scope in the current directory.
Top level conditionals have the following form.
if <test>
<true-clause>
elseif <test2>
<elseif-clause>
else
<else-clause>
The <test> expression is evaluated, and if it evaluates to a true value (see
Section 9.2 for more information on logical values, and Boolean functions), the code
for the <true-clause> is evaluated; otherwise the remaining clauses are evaluated. There may
be multiple elseif clauses; both the elseif and else clauses are optional.
Note that the clauses are indented, so they introduce new scopes.
When viewed as a predicate, a value corresponds to the Boolean false, if its string
representation is the empty string, or one of the strings false, no, nil,
undefined, or 0. All other values are true.
The following example illustrates a typical use of a conditional. The
OSTYPE variable is the current machine architecture.
# Common suffixes for files
if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
EXT_LIB = .lib
EXT_OBJ = .obj
EXT_ASM = .asm
EXE = .exe
export
elseif $(mem $(OSTYPE), Unix Cygwin)
EXT_LIB = .a
EXT_OBJ = .o
EXT_ASM = .s
EXE =
export
else
# Abort on other architectures
eprintln(OS type $(OSTYPE) is not recognized)
exit(1)
Pattern matching is performed with the switch and match forms.
switch <string>
case <pattern1>
<clause1>
case <pattern2>
<clause2>
...
default
<default-clause>
The number of cases is arbitrary.
The default clause is optional; however, if it is used it should
be the last clause in the pattern match.
For switch, the string is compared with the patterns literally.
switch $(HOST)
case mymachine
println(Building on mymachine)
default
println(Building on some other machine)
Patterns need not be constant strings. The following function tests
for a literal match against pattern1, and a match against
pattern2 with ## delimiters.
Switch2(s, pattern1, pattern2) =
switch $(s)
case $(pattern1)
println(Pattern1)
case $"##$(pattern2)##"
println(Pattern2)
default
println(Neither pattern matched)
For match the patterns are egrep(1)-style regular expressions.
The numeric variables $1, $2, ... can be used to retrieve values
that are matched by \(...\) expressions.
match $(NODENAME)@$(SYSNAME)@$(RELEASE)
case $"mymachine.*@\(.*\)@\(.*\)"
println(Compiling on mymachine; sysname $1 and release $2 are ignored)
case $".*@Linux@.*2\.4\.\(.*\)"
println(Compiling on a Linux 2.4 system; subrelease is $1)
default
eprintln(Machine configuration not implemented)
exit(1)
OMake is an object-oriented language. Generally speaking, an object is a value that contains fields
and methods. An object is defined with a . suffix for a variable. For example, the
following object might be used to specify a point (1, 5) on the two-dimensional plane.
Coord. =
x = 1
y = 5
print(message) =
println($"$(message): the point is ($(x), $(y)")
# Define X to be 5
X = $(Coord.x)
# This prints the string, "Hi: the point is (1, 5)"
Coord.print(Hi)
The fields x and y represent the coordinates of the point. The method print
prints out the position of the point.
We can also define classes. For example, suppose we wish to define a generic Point
class with some methods to create, move, and print a point. A class is really just an object with
a name, defined with the class directive.
Point. =
class Point
# Default values for the fields
x = 0
y = 0
# Create a new point from the coordinates
new(x, y) =
this.x = $(x)
this.y = $(y)
return $(this)
# Move the point to the right
move-right() =
x = $(add $(x), 1)
return $(this)
# Print the point
print() =
println($"The point is ($(x), $(y)")
p1 = $(Point.new 1, 5)
p2 = $(p1.move-right)
# Prints "The point is (1, 5)"
p1.print()
# Prints "The point is (2, 5)"
p2.print()
Note that the variable $(this) is used to refer to the current object. Also, classes and
objects are functional—the new and move-right methods return new objects. In
this example, the object p2 is a different object from p1, which retains the original
(1, 5) coordinates.
Classes and objects support inheritance (including multiple inheritance) with the extends
directive. The following definition of Point3D defines a point with x, y, and
z fields. The new object inherits all of the methods and fields of the parent classes/objects.
Z. =
z = 0
Point3D. =
extends $(Point)
extends $(Z)
class Point3D
print() =
println($"The 3D point is ($(x), $(y), $(z))")
# The "new" method was not redefined, so this
# defines a new point (1, 5, 0).
p = $(Point3D.new 1, 5)
The static. object is used to specify values that are persistent across runs of OMake. They
are frequently used for configuring a project. Configuring a project can be expensive, so the
static. object ensure that the configuration is performed just once. In the following
(somewhat trivial) example, a static section is used to determine if the LATEX command is
available. The $(where latex) function returns the full pathname for latex, or
false if the command is not found.
static. =
LATEX_ENABLED = false
print(--- Determining if LaTeX is installed )
if $(where latex)
LATEX_ENABLED = true
export
if $(LATEX_ENABLED)
println($'(enabled)')
else
println($'(disabled)')
The OMake standard library provides a number of useful functions for
programming the static. tests, as described in
Chapter 14. Using the standard library, the above can
be rewritten as
open configure/Configure
static. =
LATEX_ENABLED = $(CheckProg latex)
As a matter of style, a static. section that is used for configuration should print what it
is doing using the ConfMsgChecking and
ConfMsgResult functions (of course, most of helper functions in
the standard library would do that automatically).
This feature was introduced in version 0.9.8.5.
There is also a rule form of static section. The syntax can be any of the following three forms.
# Export all variables defined by the body
.STATIC:
<body>
# Specify file-dependencies
.STATIC: <dependencies>
<body>
# Specify which variables to export, as well as file dependencies
.STATIC: <vars>: <dependencies>
<body>
The <vars> are the variable names to be defined, the <dependencies> are file
dependencies—the rule is re-evaluated if one of the dependencies is changed. The <vars>
and <dependencies> can be omitted; if so, all variables defined in the <body> are
exported.
For example, the final example of the previous section can also be implemented as follows.
open configure/Configure
.STATIC:
LATEX_ENABLED = $(CheckProg latex)
The effect is much the same as using static. (instead of .STATIC). However, in most
cases .STATIC is preferred, for two reasons.
First, a .STATIC section is lazy, meaning that it is not evaluated until one of its variables
is resolved. In this example, if $(LATEX_ENABLED) is never evaluated, the section need never
be evaluated either. This is in contrast to the static. section, which always evaluates its
body at least once.
A second reason is that a .STATIC section allows for file dependencies, which are useful when
the .STATIC section is used for memoization. For example, suppose we wish to create a
dictionary from a table that has key-value pairs. By using a .STATIC section, we can perform
this computation only when the input file changes (not on every fun of omake). In the
following example the awk function is used to parse the file table-file.
When a line is encountered with the form key = value, the key/value pair is
added the the TABLE.
.STATIC: table-file
TABLE = $(Map)
awk(table-file)
case $'^\([[:alnum:]]+\) *= *\(.*\)'
TABLE = $(TABLE.add $1, $2)
export
It is appropriate to think of a .STATIC section as a rule that must be recomputed whenever
the dependencies of the rule change. The targets of the rule are the variables it exports (in this
case, the TABLE variable).
A .MEMO rule is just like a .STATIC rule, except that the results are not saved
between independent runs of omake.
The .STATIC and .MEMO rules also accept a :key: value, which specifies a
“key” associated with the values being computed. It is useful to think of a .STATIC rule
as a dictionary that associates keys with their values. When a .STATIC rule is evaluated,
the result is saved in the table with the :key: defined by the rule (if a :key: is not
specified, a default key is used instead). In other words, a rule is like a function. The
:key: specifies the function “argument”, and the rule body computes the result.
To illustrate, let’s use a .MEMO rule to implement a Fibonacci function.
fib(i) =
i = $(int $i)
.MEMO: :key: $i
println($"Computing fib($i)...")
result =
if $(or $(eq $i, 0), $(eq $i, 1))
value $i
else
add($(fib $(sub $i, 1)), $(fib $(sub $i, 2)))
value $(result)
println($"fib(10) = $(fib 10)")
println($"fib(12) = $(fib 12)")
When this script is run, it produces the following output.
Computing fib(10)...
Computing fib(9)...
Computing fib(8)...
Computing fib(7)...
Computing fib(6)...
Computing fib(5)...
Computing fib(4)...
Computing fib(3)...
Computing fib(2)...
Computing fib(1)...
Computing fib(0)...
fib(10) = 55
Computing fib(12)...
Computing fib(11)...
fib(12) = 144
Note that the Fibonacci computation is performed just once for each value of the argument, rather
than an exponential number of times. In other words, the .MEMO rule has performed a
memoization, hence the name. Note that if .STATIC were used instead, the values would be
saved across runs of omake.
As a general guideline, whenever you use a .STATIC or .MEMO rule within a function
body, you will usually want to use a :key: value to index the rule by the function argument.
However, this is not required. In the following, the .STATIC rule is used to perform some
expensive computation once.
f(x) =
.STATIC:
y = $(expensive-computation)
add($x, $y)
Additonal care should be taken for recursive functions, like the Fibonacci function. If the
:key: is omitted, then the rule would be defined in terms of itself, resulting in a cyclic
dependency. Here is the output of the Fibonacci program with an omitted :key:.
Computing fib(10)...
Computing fib(8)...
Computing fib(6)...
Computing fib(4)...
Computing fib(2)...
Computing fib(0)...
fib(10) = 0
fib(12) = 0
The reason for this behavior is that the result value is not saved until the base case
i = 0 || i = 1 is reached, so fib calls itself recursively until reaching
fib(0), whereupon the result value is fixed at 0.
In any case, recursive definitions are perfectly acceptable, but you will usually want a
:key: argument so that each recursive call has a different :key:. In most cases, this
means that the :key: should include all arguments to the function.
Internally, OMake represents values in several forms, which we list here.
String 12.1.8.
osh>S = This is a string
- : <sequence
"This" : Sequence
' ' : White
"is" : Sequence
' ' : White
"a" : Sequence
' ' : White
"string" : Sequence>
: Sequence
osh>length($S)
- : 4 : Int
$"..." and $'...'. osh>S = $'''This is a string'''
- : <data "This is a string"> : String
$(file <names>) 10.1.1.
File 12.1.13.
osh>name = $(file foo)
- : /Users/jyh/projects/omake/0.9.8.x/foo : File
osh>echo $(name)
foo
osh>cd ..
- : /Users/jyh/projects/omake : Dir
osh>echo $(name)
0.9.8.x/foo
vmount 10.6.1.
Map 12.1.2.
Map object is the empty
map. The data structure is persistent, and all operations are pure and functional. The special syntax
$|key| can be used for keys that are strings. osh>table = $(Map)
osh>table = $(table.add x, int)
osh>table. +=
$|y| = int
osh>table.find(y)
- : "int" : Sequence
$(fun <params> => <body>) 9.5.1.
Fun 12.1.9.
$(fun i, j => $(add $i, $j))
f(i, j) =
add($i, $j)
osh>foreach(i => $(add $i, 1), 1 2 3)
- : <array 2 3 4> : Array
Lexer 10.11.9.
Parser 10.11.13.
During evaluation, there are three different kinds of namespaces. Variables can be private, or they may refer to fields in the current this object, or they can be part of the global namespace. The namespace can be specified directly by including an explicit qualifier before the variable name. The three namespaces are separate; a variable can be bound in one or more simultaneously.
# private namespace
private.X = 1
# current object
this.X = 2
# public, globally defined
global.X = 3
The private. qualifier is used to define variables that are private to the current file/scope.
The values are not accessible outside the scope. Private variables are statically (lexically) scoped.
Unforunately, private variables have always been incorrectly implemented in every omake version. Read the section below on the issues. In version 0.10 the problems still exist, and will probably be tackled in 0.11.
Obj. =
private.X = 1
print() =
println(The value of X is: $X)
# Prints:
# The private value of X is: 1
Obj.print()
# This is an error--X is private in Obj
y = $(Obj.X)
In addition, private definitions do not affect the global value of a variable.
# The public value of x is 1
x = 1
# This object uses a private value of x
Obj. =
private.x = 2
print() =
x = 3
println(The private value of x is: $x)
println(The public value of x is: $(public.x))
f()
# Prints:
# The private value of x is: 3
# The public value of x is: 1
Obj.print()
Private variables have two additional properties.
export directive, unless they are
mentioned explicitly in the export directive. private. =
FLAG = true
section
FLAG = false
export
# FLAG is still true
section
FLAG = false
export FLAG
# FLAG is now false
As mentioned above, there are issues with private variables. In particular, when a function closure is built, the current values are remembered with the closure, and any future updates are not seen. For example:
private.X = foo
f() =
println($"The value of X is $(X)")
f()
X = bar
f()
This prints foo twice! As this is probably not what you want, the
recommendation is:
=> notation (see Section 4.5.1).
These issues will likely be fixed soon.
The this. qualifier is used to define fields that are local to an object.
Object variables are dynamically scoped.
X = 1
f() =
println(The public value of X is: $(X))
# Prints:
# The public value of X is: 2
section
X = 2
f()
# X is a protected field in the object
Obj. =
this.X = 3
print() =
println(The value of this.X is: $(X))
f()
# Prints:
# The value of this.X is: 3
# The public value of X is: 1
Obj.print()
# This is legal, it defines Y as 3
Y = $(Obj.X)
In general, it is a good idea to define object variables as protected. The resulting code is more modular because variables in your object will not produce unexpected clashes with variables defined in other parts of the project.
The global. qualifier is used to specify global dynamically-scoped variables. In the following
example, the global. definition specifies that the binding X = 4 is to be dynamically
scoped. Global variables are not defined as fields of an object.
X = 1
f() =
println(The global value of X is: $(X))
# Prints:
# The global value of X is: 2
section
X = 2
f()
Obj. =
this.X = 3
print() =
println(The protected value of X is: $(X))
global.X = 4
f()
# Prints:
# The protected value of X is: 3
# The global value of X is: 4
Obj.print()
In OMake 0.9.8, protected is a synonym for this.
osh>protected.x = 1
- : "1" : Sequence
osh>value $(this.x)
- : "1" : Sequence
In 0.9.9, this will change, so that the qualifier protected means (in 0.9.9) that a variable
is local to the current object or file, and may not be accessed outside it.
In OMake 0.9.8, public is a synonym for global.
osh>public.x = 1
- : "1" : Sequence
osh>value $(global.x)
- : "1" : Sequence
In 0.9.9, this will change, so that the qualifier public means (in 0.9.9) that a variable
is to be accessible from outside the current file or object.
If several qualified variables are defined simultaneously, a block form of qualifier can be defined.
The syntax is similar to an object definition, where the name of the object is the qualifier itself.
For example, the following program defines two private variables X and Y.
private. =
X = 1
Y = 2
The qualifier specifies a default namespace for new definitions in the block. The contents of the block is otherwise general.
private. =
X = 1
Y = 2
public.Z = $(add $X, $Y)
# Prints "The value of Z is 3"
echo The value of Z is $Z
Stylistically, it is usually better to avoid large qualified blocks because the qualifier status can be easy to forget. For example, consider the following fragment.
private. =
# Large code sequence
...
# build foo.o with -g option (ERROR)
CFLAGS = -g
foo.o:
In this case, the programmer probably forgot that the definition of the variable CFLAGS is in
the private block, so a fresh variable private.CFLAGS is being defined, not the global
one. The target foo.o does not use this definition of CFLAGS.
When a variable name is unqualified, its namespace is determined by the most recent definition or
declaration that is in scope for that variable. We have already seen this in the examples, where a
variable definition is qualified, but the subsequent uses are not qualified explicitly. In the
following example, the first occurrence of $X refers to the private definition,
because that is the most recent. The public definition of X is still 0, but the
variable must be qualified explicitly in order to access the public value.
public.X = 0
private.X = 1
public.print() =
println(The value of private.X is: $X)
println(The value of public.X is: $(public.X))
Sometimes it can be useful to declare a variable without defining it. For example, we might have a
function that uses a variable X that is to be defined later in the program. The
declare directive can be used for this.
declare public.X
public.print() =
println(The value of X is $X)
# Prints "The value of X is 2"
X = 2
print()
Finally, what about variables that are used but not explicitly qualified? In this case, the following rules are used.
this..
omake provides a full programming-language including many system and IO functions. The language is object-oriented – everything is an object, including the base values like numbers and strings. The omake language can be characterized as follows:
export directive, instead of
directly mutating variables
To illustrate these features, we will use the osh(1) omake program shell.
The osh(1) program provides a toploop, where expressions can be entered
and the result printed. osh(1) normally interprets input as command text
to be executed by the shell, so in many cases we will use the value
form to evaluate an expression directly.
osh> 1
*** omake error: File -: line 1, characters 0-1 command not found: 1
osh> value 1
- : "1" : Sequence
osh> ls -l omake
-rwxrwxr-x 1 jyh jyh 1662189 Aug 25 10:24 omake*
Dynamic scoping means that the value of a variable is determined by the most recent binding of the variable in scope at runtime. Consider the following program.
OPTIONS = a b c
f() =
println(OPTIONS = $(OPTIONS))
g() =
OPTIONS = d e f
f()
If f() is called without redefining the OPTIONS variable,
the function should print the string OPTIONS = a b c.
In contrast, the function g() redefines the OPTIONS
variable and evaluates f() in that scope, which now prints the
string OPTIONS = d e f.
The body of g defines a local scope – the redefinition of the
OPTIONS variable is local to g and does not persist
after the function terminates.
osh> g()
OPTIONS = d e f
osh> f()
OPTIONS = a b c
Dynamic scoping can be tremendously helpful for simplifying the code
in a project. For example, the OMakeroot file defines a set of
functions and rules for building projects using such variables as
CC, CFLAGS, etc. However, different parts of a project
may need different values for these variables. For example, we may
have a subdirectory called opt where we want to use the
-03 option, and a subdirectory called debug where we
want to use the -g option. Dynamic scoping allows us to redefine
these variables in the parts of the project without having to
redefine the functions that use them.
section
CFLAGS = -O3
.SUBDIRS: opt
section
CFLAGS = -g
.SUBDIRS: debug
However, dynamic scoping also has drawbacks. First, it can become confusing: you might have a variable that is intended to be private, but it is accidentally redefined elsewhere. For example, you might have the following code to construct search paths.
PATHSEP = :
make-path(dirs) =
return $(concat $(PATHSEP), $(dirs))
make-path(/bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin)
- : "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" : String
However, elsewhere in the project, the PATHSEP variable is
redefined as a directory separator /, and your function
suddenly returns the string /bin//usr/bin//usr/X11R6/bin,
obviously not what you want.
The private block is used to solve this problem. Variables
that are defined in a private block use static scoping – that
is, the value of the variable is determined by the most recent
definition in scope in the source text.
private
PATHSEP = :
make-path(dirs) =
return $(concat $(PATHSEP), $(dirs))
PATHSEP = /
make-path(/bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin)
- : "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" : String
This has two aspects: First of all, functions are values like other values:
p(f, x) =
y = $(f $(x), 1)
println($"The value is $(y)")
p($(add), 5) # prints 6
p($(sub), 5) # prints 4
The other aspect is that variables (and thus the whole environment) can exist in several versions: The assignment to a variable creates first a second version in the current block, and is not directly applied to the orignal variable, unless it is finally “exported”.
(Note that in previous versions of the manual you could read here that there “is no assignment operator”. On the surface this is of course not true, as we provide such an operator. This comment referred to the implementation, which represents environments as functional maps from names to values, and reduces assignment to a functional update of the current environment, yielding to a new version.)
The export directive can be used to propagate all or part of an inner scope back to its
parent. If used without
arguments, the entire scope is propagated back to the parent; otherwise the arguments specify which
part of the environment to propagate. The most common usage is to export some or all of the definitions in a
conditional block. In the following example, the variable B is bound to 2 after the
conditional. The A variable is not redefined.
if $(test)
A = 1
B = $(add $(A), 1)
export B
else
B = 2
export
If the export directive is used without an argument, all of the following is exported:
If the export directive is used with an argument, the argument expression is evaluated
and the resulting value is interpreted as follows:
export function, then the corresponding environment or partial
environment is exported.
For example, in the following (somewhat artificial) example, the variables A and B
will be exported, and the implicit rule will remain in the environment after the section ends, but
the variable TMP and the target tmp_phony will remain unchanged.
section
A = 1
B = 2
TMP = $(add $(A), $(B))
.PHONY: tmp_phony
tmp_phony:
prepare_foo
%.foo: %.bar tmp_phony
compute_foo $(TMP) $< $@
export A B .RULE
This feature was introduced in version 0.9.8.5.
The export directive does not need to occur at the end of a block. An export is valid from
the point where it is specified to the end of the block in which it is contained. In other words,
the export is used in the program that follows it. This can be especially useful for reducing the
amount of code you have to write. In the following example, the variable CFLAGS is exported
from the both branches of the conditional.
export CFLAGS
if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
CFLAGS += /DWIN32
else
CFLAGS += -UWIN32
This feature was introduced in version 0.9.8.5.
The use of export does not affect the value returned by a block. The value is computed as usual, as the value of the last statement in the block, ignoring the export. For example, suppose we wish to implement a table that maps strings to unique integers. Consider the following program.
# Empty map
table = $(Map)
# Add an entry to the table
intern(s) =
export
if $(table.mem $s)
table.find($s)
else
private.i = $(table.length)
table = $(table.add $s, $i)
value $i
intern(foo)
intern(boo)
intern(moo)
# Prints "boo = 1"
println($"boo = $(intern boo)")
Given a string s, the function intern returns either the value already associated with
s, or assigns a new value. In the latter case, the table is updated with the new value. The
export at the beginning of the function means that the variable table is to be
exported. The bindings for s and i are not exported, because they are private.
Evaluation in omake is eager. That is, expressions are evaluated as soon as they are encountered by the evaluator. One effect of this is that the right-hand-side of a variable definition is expanded when the variable is defined.
osh> A = 1
- : "1"
osh> A = $(A)$(A)
- : "11"
In the second definition, A = $(A)$(A), the right-hand-side is evaluated first, producing the
sequence 11. Then the variable A is redefined as the new value. When combined
with dynamic scoping, this has many of the same properties as conventional imperative programming.
osh> A = 1
- : "1"
osh> printA() =
println($"A = $A")
osh> A = $(A)$(A)
- : "11"
osh> printA()
11
In this example, the print function is defined in the scope of A. When it is called on
the last line, the dynamic value of A is 11, which is what is printed.
However, dynamic scoping and imperative programming should not be confused. The following example
illustrates a difference. The second printA is not in the scope of the definition
A = x$(A)$(A)x, so it prints the original value, 1.
osh> A = 1
- : "1"
osh> printA() =
println($"A = $A")
osh> section
A = x$(A)$(A)x
printA()
x11x
osh> printA()
1
See also Section 7.7 for further ways to control the evaluation order through the use of “lazy” expressions.
omake is an object-oriented language. Everything is an object, including
base values like numbers and strings. In many projects, this may not be so apparent
because most evaluation occurs in the default toplevel object, the Pervasives
object, and few other objects are ever defined.
However, objects provide additional means for data structuring, and in some cases judicious use of objects may simplify your project.
Objects are defined with the following syntax. This defines name
to be an object with several methods an values.
name. = # += may be used as well
extends parent-object # optional
class class-name # optional
# Fields
X = value
Y = value
# Methods
f(args) =
body
g(arg) =
body
An extends directive specifies that this object inherits from
the specified parent-object. The object may have any number of
extends directives. If there is more than on extends
directive, then fields and methods are inherited from all parent
objects. If there are name conflicts, the later definitions override
the earlier definitions.
The class directive is optional. If specified, it defines a name
for the object that can be used in instanceof operations, as well
as :: scoping directives discussed below.
The body of the object is actually an arbitrary program. The variables defined in the body of the object become its fields, and the functions defined in the body become its methods.
The fields and methods of an object are named using object.name notation.
For example, let’s define a one-dimensional point value.
Point. =
class Point
# Default value
x = $(int 0)
# Create a new point
new(x) =
x = $(int $(x))
return $(this)
# Move by one
move() =
x = $(add $(x), 1)
return $(this)
osh> p1 = $(Point.new 15)
osh> value $(p1.x)
- : 15 : Int
osh> p2 = $(p1.move)
osh> value $(p2.x)
- : 16 : Int
The $(this) variable always represents the current object.
The expression $(p1.x) fetches the value of the x field
in the p1 object. The expression $(Point.new 15)
represents a method call to the new method of the Point
object, which returns a new object with 15 as its initial value. The
expression $(p1.move) is also a method call, which returns a
new object at position 16.
Note that objects are functional — it is not possible to modify the fields
or methods of an existing object in place. Thus, the new and move
methods return new objects.
Suppose we wish to create a new object that moves by 2 units, instead of
just 1. We can do it by overriding the move method.
Point2. =
extends $(Point)
# Override the move method
move() =
x = $(add $(x), 2)
return $(this)
osh> p2 = $(Point2.new 15)
osh> p3 = $(p2.move)
osh> value $(p3.x)
- : 17 : Int
However, by doing this, we have completely replaced the old move method.
Suppose we wish to define a new move method that just calls the old one twice.
We can refer to the old definition of move using a super call, which uses the notation
$(classname::name <args>). The classname should be the name of the
superclass, and name the field or method to be referenced. An alternative
way of defining the Point2 object is then as follows.
Point2. =
extends $(Point)
# Call the old method twice
move() =
this = $(Point::move)
return $(Point::move)
Note that the first call to $(Point::move) redefines the
current object (the this variable). This is because the method
returns a new object, which is re-used for the second call.
In this section, we’ll explore the core language through a series of examples (examples of the build system are the topic of the Chapter 3).
For most of these examples, we’ll use the osh command interpreter. For simplicity, the
values printed by osh have been abbreviated.
The basic OMake values are strings, sequences, and arrays of values:
How to define a string:
osh> X = $"1 2" - : <data "1 2"> : String
Note that special characters trigger some pre-parsing, as in:
osh> X = "1 2"
- : <string "
<data "1 2"> : String">
: String
Despite the complex printing, the value of X is still "1 2"
(including double quotes). The double quotes as such do not have a meaning,
but they still cause that the space character is not considered as a separator
for the elements of a sequence, as in:
osh> X = 1 2 - : "1 2" : Sequence osh> addsuffix(.c, $X) - : <array 1.c 2.c> : Array
As addsuffix operates on arrays, the sequence is split into elements
before the suffices are added. The return value is an array.
Sometimes you want to define an array explicitly. For this, use the [] brackets after the
variable name, and list each array entry on a single indented line.
osh> A[] =
Hello world
$(getenv HOME)
- : <array "Hello world" "/home/jyh"> : Array
One central property of arrays is that whitespace in the elements is taken literally. This can be useful, especially for filenames that contain whitespace.
# List the current files in the directory
osh> ls -Q
"fee" "fi" "foo" "fum"
osh> NAME[] =
Hello world
- : <array "Hello world"> : Array
osh> touch $(NAME)
osh> ls -Q
"fee" "fi" "foo" "fum" "Hello world"
As mentioned, nested arrays are automatically flattened:
osh> a[] =
1
2
osh> b[] =
$(a)
3
$(a)
- : <array
<array "1" : Sequence "2" : Sequence>
"3" : Sequence
<array "1" : Sequence "2" : Sequence> >
osh> println($(length $(b)))
5
The same holds for sequences when they are accessed as arrays.
A String is a single value; whitespace is taken literally in a string. Strings are introduced
with quotes. There are four kinds of quoted elements; the kind is determined by the opening quote.
The symbols ' (single-quote) and " (double-quote) introduce the normal shell-style
quoted elements. The quotation symbols are included in the result string. Variables are
always expanded within a quote of this kind. Note that the osh(1)
(Chapter 15) printer
escapes double-quotes within the string; these are only for printing, they are not part of the
string itself.
osh> A = 'Hello "world"'
- : "'Hello \"world\"'" : String
osh> B = "$(A)"
- : "\"'Hello \"world\"'\"" : String
osh> C = 'Hello \'world\''
- : "'Hello 'world''" : String
The rationale for keeping the quotes as part of the string is that this makes it very convenient to construct commands that are executed by the Unix shell:
osh> F = my thesis.pdf
osh> G = picture of me.png
osh> H = "$(F)" "$(G)"
osh> ls $(H)
This constructs the command
ls "my thesis.pdf" "picture of me.png"
which is then executed by the shell. The quoting remains under the control of the programmer (i.e. whether and how to quote).
A second kind of quote is introduced with the $' and $"
quotes. The number of opening and closing quote symbols is arbitrary.
These quotations have several properties:
\ symbols within the string are treated as normal characters.
$" sequences, but not within $'
sequences.
osh> A = $'''Here $(IS) an '''' \(example\) string['''
- : "Here $(IS) an '''' \\(example\\) string[" : String
osh> B = $""""A is "$(A)" """"
- : "A is \"Here $(IS) an '''' \\(example\\) string[\" " : String
osh> value $(A.length)
- : 38 : Int
osh> value $(A.nth 5)
- : "$" : String
osh> value $(A.rev)
- : "[gnirts )\\elpmaxe(\\ '''' na )SI($ ereH" : String
You can define an empty string as
X =
but in expression context it is often more convenient to get the empty
string via the function call $(string).
Strings and sequences both have the property that they can be merged with adjacent non-whitespace text.
osh> A = a b c
- : "a b c" : Sequence
osh> B = $(A).c
- : <sequence "a b c" : Sequence ".c" : Sequence> : Sequence
osh> value $(nth 2, $(B))
- : "c.c" : String
osh> value $(length $(B))
- : 3 : Int
Arrays are different. The elements of an array are never merged with adjacent text of any kind (but are flattened into the enclosing array, if any).
Arrays are defined by adding square
brackets [] after a variable name and defining the elements
with an indented body. The elements may include whitespace.
osh> A[] =
a b
foo bar
- : <array
"a b" : Sequence
"foo bar" : Sequence>
: Array
osh> echo $(A).c
a b foo bar .c
osh> value $(A.length)
- : 2 : Int
osh> value $(A.nth 1)
- : "foo bar" : Sequence
Arrays are quite helpful on systems where filenames often contain whitespace.
osh> FILES[] =
c:\Documents and Settings\jyh\one file
c:\Program Files\omake\second file
osh> CFILES = $(addsuffix .c, $(FILES))
osh> echo $(CFILES)
c:\Documents and Settings\jyh\one file.c c:\Program Files\omake\second file.c
OMake projects usually span multiple directories, and different parts of the project execute commands in different directories. There is a need to define a location-independent name for a file or directory.
This is done with the $(file <names>) and $(dir <names>) functions.
osh> mkdir tmp
osh> F = $(file fee)
osh> section:
cd tmp
echo $F
../fee
osh> echo $F
fee
Note the use of a section: to limit the scope of the cd command. The section
temporarily changes to the tmp directory where the name of the file is ../fee. Once
the section completes, we are still in the current directory, where the name of the file is
fee.
One common way to use the file functions is to define proper file names in your project
OMakefile, so that references within the various parts of the project will refer to the same
file.
osh> cat OMakefile
ROOT = $(dir .)
TMP = $(dir tmp)
BIN = $(dir bin)
...
Most builtin functions operate transparently on arrays.
osh> addprefix(-D, DEBUG WIN32)
- : -DDEBUG -DWIN32 : Array
osh> mapprefix(-I, /etc /tmp)
- : -I /etc -I /tmp : Array
osh> uppercase(fee fi foo fum)
- : FEE FI FOO FUM : Array
The mapprefix and addprefix functions are slightly different (the addsuffix and
mapsuffix functions are similar). The addprefix adds the prefex to each array
element. The mapprefix doubles the length of the array, adding the prefix as a new array
element before each of the original elements.
Even though most functions work on arrays, there are times when you will want to do it yourself.
The foreach function is the way to go. The foreach function has two forms, but the
form with a body is most useful. In this form, the function takes two arguments and a body. The
second argument is an array, and the first is a variable. The body is evaluated once for each
element of the array, where the variable is bound to the element. Let’s define a function to add 1
to each element of an array of numbers.
osh> add1(l) =
foreach(i => $l):
add($i, 1)
osh> add1(7 21 75)
- : 8 22 76 : Array
Sometimes you have an array of filenames, and you want to define a rule for each of them. Rules are
not special, you can define them anywhere a statement is expected. Say we want to write a function
that describes how to process each file, placing the result in the tmp/ directory.
TMP = $(dir tmp)
my-special-rule(files) =
foreach(name => $(files))
$(TMP)/$(name): $(name)
process $< > $@
Later, in some other part of the project, we may decide that we want to use this function to process some files.
# These are the files to process in src/lib
MY_SPECIAL_FILES[] =
fee.src
fi.src
file with spaces in its name.src
my-special-rule($(MY_SPECIAL_FILES))
The result of calling my-special-rule is
exactly the same as if we had written the following three rules explicitly.
$(TMP)/fee.src: fee.src
process fee > $@
$(TMP)/fi.src: fi.src
process fi.src > $@
$(TMP)/$"file with spaces in its name.src": $"file with spaces in its name.src"
process $< > $@
Of course, writing these rules is not nearly as pleasant as calling the function. The usual
properties of function abstraction give us the usual benefits. The code is less redundant, and
there is a single location (the my-special-rule function) that defines the build rule.
Later, if we want to modify/update the rule, we need do so in only one location.
Evaluation in omake is normally eager. That is, expressions are evaluated as soon as they are encountered by the evaluator. One effect of this is that the right-hand-side of a variable definition is expanded when the variable is defined.
There are two ways to control this behavior. The $`(v) form
introduces lazy behavior, and the $,(v) form restores
eager behavior. Consider the following sequence.
osh> A = 1
- : "1" : Sequence
osh> B = 2
- : "2" : Sequence
osh> C = $`(add $(A), $,(B))
- : $(apply add $(apply A) "2" : Sequence)
osh> println(C = $(C))
C = 3
osh> A = 5
- : "5" : Sequence
osh> B = 6
- : "6" : Sequence
osh> println(C = $(C))
C = 7
The definition C = $`(add $(A), $,(B)) defines a lazy application.
The add function is not applied in this case until its value is needed.
Within this expression, the value $,(B) specifies that B is
to be evaluated immediately, even though it is defined in a lazy expression.
The first time that we print the value of C, it evaluates to 3
since A is 1 and B is 2. The second time we evaluate C,
it evaluates to 7 because A has been redefined to 5. The second
definition of B has no effect, since it was evaluated at definition time.
Lazy expressions are not evaluated until their result is needed. Some people, including this author, frown on overuse of lazy expressions, mainly because it is difficult to know when evaluation actually happens. However, there are cases where they pay off.
One example comes from option processing. Consider the specification of “include” directories on
the command line for a C compiler. If we want to include files from /home/jyh/include and ../foo,
we specify it on the command line with the options -I/home/jyh/include -I../foo.
Suppose we want to define a generic rule for building C files. We could define a INCLUDES
array to specify the directories to be included, and then define a generic implicit rule in our root
OMakefile.
# Generic way to compile C files.
CFLAGS = -g
INCLUDES[] =
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) -c $<
# The src directory builds my_widget+ from 4 source files.
# It reads include files from the include directory.
.SUBDIRS: src
FILES = fee fi foo fum
OFILES = $(addsuffix .o, $(FILES))
INCLUDES[] += -I../include
my_widget: $(OFILES)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(OFILES)
But this is not quite right. The problem is that INCLUDES is an array of options, not directories.
If we later wanted to recover the directories, we would have to strip the leading -I prefix,
which is a hassle. Furthermore, we aren’t using proper names for the directories. The solution
here is to use a lazy expression. We’ll define INCLUDES as a directory array, and a new variable
PREFIXED_INCLUDES that adds the -I prefix. The PREFIXED_INCLUDES is computed lazily,
ensuring that the value uses the most recent value of the INCLUDES variable.
# Generic way to compile C files.
CFLAGS = -g
INCLUDES[] =
PREFIXED_INCLUDES[] = $`(addprefix -I, $(INCLUDES))
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(PREFIXED_INCLUDES) -c $<
# For this example, we define a proper name for the include directory
STDINCLUDE = $(dir include)
# The src directory builds my_widget+ from 4 source files.
# It reads include files from the include directory.
.SUBDIRS: src
FILES = fee fi foo fum
OFILES = $(addsuffix .o, $(FILES))
INCLUDES[] += $(STDINCLUDE)
my_widget: $(OFILES)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(OFILES)
Note that there is a close connection between lazy values and functions. In the example above, we
could equivalently define PREFIXED_INCLUDES as a function with zero arguments.
PREFIXED_INCLUDES() =
addprefix(-I, $(INCLUDES))
The OMake language is functional (apart from IO and shell commands). This comes in two parts: functions are first-class, and variables are immutable (there is no assignment operator). The latter property may seem strange to users used to GNU make, but it is actually a central point of OMake. Since variables can’t be modified, it is impossible (or at least hard) for one part of the project to interfere with another.
To be sure, pure functional programming can be awkward. In OMake, each new indentation level introduces a new scope, and new definitions in that scope are lost when the scope ends. If OMake were overly strict about scoping, we would wind up with a lot of convoluted code.
osh> X = 1
osh> setenv(BOO, 12)
osh> if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
setenv(BOO, 17)
X = 2
osh> println($X $(getenv BOO))
1 12
The export command presents a way out. It takes care of “exporting” a value (or the entire
variable environment) from an inner scope to an outer one.
osh> X = 1
osh> setenv(BOO, 12)
osh> if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
setenv(BOO, 17)
X = 2
export
osh> println($X $(getenv BOO))
2 17
Exports are especially useful in loop to export values from one iteration of a loop to the next.
# Ok, let's try to add up the elements of the array
osh>sum(l) =
total = 0
foreach(i => $l)
total = $(add $(total), $i)
value $(total)
osh>sum(1 2 3)
- : 0 : Int
# Oops, that didn't work!
osh>sum(l) =
total = 0
foreach(i => $l)
total = $(add $(total), $i)
export
value $(total)
osh>sum(1 2 3)
- : 6 : Int
A while loop is another form of loop, with an auto-export.
osh>i = 0
osh>total = 0
osh>while $(lt $i, 10)
total = $(add $(total), $i)
i = $(add $i, 1)
osh>println($(total))
45
Sometimes you may want to define an alias, an OMake command that masquerades as a real shell
command. You can do this by adding your function as a method to the Shell object.
For an example, suppose we use the awk function to print out all the comments in a file.
osh>cat comment.om
# Comment function
comments(filename) =
awk($(filename))
case $'^#'
println($0)
# File finished
osh>include comment
osh>comments(comment.om)
# Comment function
# File finished
To add it as an alias, add the method (using += to preserve the existing entries in the Shell).
osh>Shell. +=
printcom(argv) =
comments($(nth 0, $(argv)))
osh>printcom comment.om > output.txt
osh>cat output.txt
# Comment function
# File finished
A shell command is passed an array of arguments argv. This does not include the name
of the alias.
As it turns out, scoping also provides a nice alternate way to perform redirection. Suppose you have already written a lot of code that prints to the standard output channel, but now you decide you want to redirect it. One way to do it is using the technique in the previous example: define your function as an alias, and then use shell redirection to place the output where you want.
There is an alternate method that is easier in some cases. The variables stdin,
stdout, and stderr define the standard I/O channels. To redirect output, redefine
these variables as you see fit. Of course, you would normally do this in a nested scope, so that
the outer channels are not affected.
osh>f() =
println(Hello world)
osh>f()
Hello world
osh>section:
stdout = $(fopen output.txt, w)
f()
close($(stdout))
osh>cat output.txt
Hello world
This also works for shell commands. If you like to gamble, you can try the following example.
osh>f() =
println(Hello world)
osh>f()
Hello world
osh>section:
stdout = $(fopen output.txt, w)
f()
cat output.txt
close($(stdout))
osh>cat output.txt
Hello world
Hello world
Rules are used by OMake to specify how to build files. At its simplest, a rule has the following form.
<target>: <dependencies>
<commands>
The <target> is the name of a file to be built. The <dependencies> are a list of
files that are needed before the <target> can be built. The <commands> are a list of
indented lines specifying commands to build the target. For example, the following rule specifies
how to compile a file hello.c.
hello.o: hello.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o hello.o hello.c
This rule states that the hello.o file depends on the hello.c file. If the
hello.c file has changed, the command $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o hello.o hello.c is to
be executed to update the target file hello.o.
A rule can have an arbitrary number of commands. The individual command lines are executed independently by the command shell. The commands do not have to begin with a tab, but they must be indented from the dependency line.
In addition to normal variables, the following special variables may be used in the body of a rule.
$*: the target name, without a suffix.
$@: the target name.
$^: a list of the sources, in alphabetical order, with
duplicates removed.
$+: all the sources, in the original order.
$<: the first source.
For example, the above hello.c rule may be simplified as follows.
hello.o: hello.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
Unlike normal values, the variables in a rule body are expanded lazily, and binding is dynamic. The following function definition illustrates some of the issues.
CLibrary(name, files) =
OFILES = $(addsuffix .o, $(files))
$(name).a: $(OFILES)
$(AR) cq $@ $(OFILES)
This function defines a rule to build a program called $(name) from a list of .o
files. The files in the argument are specified without a suffix, so the first line of the function
definition defines a variable OFILES that adds the .o suffix to each of the file
names. The next step defines a rule to build a target library $(name).a from the
$(OFILES) files. The expression $(AR) is evaluated when the function is called, and
the value of the variable AR is taken from the caller’s scope (see also the section on
Scoping).
Rules may also be implicit. That is, the files may be specified by wildcard patterns.
The wildcard character is %. For example, the following rule specifies a default
rule for building .o files.
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $*.c
This rule is a template for building an arbitrary .o file from
a .c file.
By default, implicit rules are only used for the targets in the current
directory. However subdirectories included via the .SUBDIRS rules
inherit all the implicit rules that are in scope (see also the section on
Scoping).
Implicit rules may specify the set of files they apply to. The following syntax is used.
<targets>: <pattern>: <dependencies>
<commands>
For example, the following rule applies only to the files a.o and b.o.
a.o b.o: %.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DSPECIAL -c $*.c
Frequently, the commands in a rule body are expressions to be evaluated by the shell. omake also allows expressions to be evaluated by omake itself.
The syntax of these “computed rules” uses the section expression. The following rule uses
the omake IO functions to produce the target hello.c.
hello.c:
section
FP = fopen(hello.c, w)
fprintln($(FP), $""#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello world\n"); }"")
close($(FP))
This example uses the quotation $""..."" (see also Section B.1.6) to quote the text being
printed. These quotes are not included in the output file. The fopen, fprintln, and
close functions perform file IO as discussed in the IO section.
In addition, commands that are function calls, or special expressions, are interpreted correctly.
Since the fprintln function can take a file directly, the above rule can be abbreviated as
follows.
hello.c:
fprintln($@, $""#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello world\n"); }"")
Rules can also be computed using the section rule form, where a rule body is expected instead
of an expression. In the following rule, the file a.c is copied onto the hello.c file
if it exists, otherwise hello.c is created from the file default.c.
hello.c:
section rule
if $(target-exists a.c)
hello.c: a.c
cat a.c > hello.c
else
hello.c: default.c
cp default.c hello.c
In some cases, the contents of a dependency do not matter, only whether the file exists or not. In
this case, the :exists: qualifier can be used for the dependency.
foo.c: a.c :exists: .flag
if $(test -e .flag)
$(CP) a.c $@
Some commands produce files by side-effect. For example, the
latex(1) command produces a .aux file as a side-effect of
producing a .dvi file. In this case, the :effects:
qualifier can be used to list the side-effect explicitly.
omake is careful to avoid simultaneously running programs that
have overlapping side-effects.
paper.dvi: paper.tex :effects: paper.aux
latex paper
The :value: dependency is used to specify that the rule execution depends on the value of an
expression. For example, the following rule
a: b c :value: $(X)
...
specifies that “a” should be recompiled if the value of $(X) changes
(X does not have to be a filename). This is intended to allow greater
control over dependencies.
In addition, it can be used instead of other kinds of dependencies. For example, the following rule:
a: b :exists: c
commands
is the same as
a: b :value: $(target-exists c)
commands
Notes:
$@, $^, etc are legal.
.SCANNER rulesScanner rules define a way to specify automatic dependency scanning. A .SCANNER rule has the
following form.
.SCANNER: target: dependencies
commands
The rule is used to compute additional dependencies that might be defined in the source files for
the specified target. The result of executing the scanner commands must be a sequence of
dependencies in OMake format, printed to the standard output. For example, on GNU systems the
gcc -MM foo.c produces dependencies for the file foo.c (based on #include
information).
We can use this to specify a scanner for C files that adds the scanned dependencies for the
.o file. The following scanner specifies that dependencies for a file, say foo.o can
be computed by running gcc -MM foo.c. Furthermore, foo.c is a dependency, so the
scanner should be recomputed whenever the foo.c file changes.
.SCANNER: %.o: %.c
gcc -MM $<
Let’s suppose that the command gcc -MM foo.c prints the following line.
foo.o: foo.h /usr/include/stdio.h
The result is that the files foo.h and /usr/include/stdio.h are considered to be
dependencies of foo.o—that is, foo.o should be rebuilt if either of these files
changes.
This works, to an extent. One nice feature is that the scanner will be re-run whenever the
foo.c file changes. However, one problem is that dependencies in C are recursive.
That is, if the file foo.h is modified, it might include other files, establishing further
dependencies. What we need is to re-run the scanner if foo.h changes too.
We can do this with a value dependency. The variable $& is defined as the dependency
results from any previous scan. We can add these as dependencies using the digest function,
which computes an MD5 digest of the files.
.SCANNER: %.o: %.c :value: $(digest $&)
gcc -MM $<
Now, when the file foo.h changes, its digest will also change, and the scanner will be re-run
because of the value dependency (since $& will include foo.h).
This still is not quite right. The problem is that the C compiler uses a search-path for
include files. There may be several versions of the file foo.h, and the one that is chosen
depends on the include path. What we need is to base the dependencies on the search path.
The $(digest-in-path-optional ...) function computes the digest based on a search path,
giving us a solution that works.
.SCANNER: %.o: %.c :value: $(digest-in-path-optional $(INCLUDES), $&)
gcc -MM $(addprefix -I, $(INCLUDES)) $<
The standard output of the scanner rules will be captured by OMake and is not allowed to contain any
content that OMake will not be able to parse as a dependency. The output is allowed to contain
dependency specifications for unrelated targets, however such dependencies will be ignored. The
scanner rules are allowed to produce arbitrary output on the standard error channel — such output
will be handled in the same way as the output of the ordinary rules (in other words, it will be
presented to the user, when dictated by the --output-… options enabled).
Additional examples of the .SCANNER rules can be found in Section 3.4.3.
:scanner: dependenciesSometimes it may be useful to specify explicitly which scanner should be used in a rule. For
example, we might compile .c files with different options, or (heaven help us) we may be
using both gcc and the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler cl. In general, the target of a
.SCANNER is not tied to a particular target, and we may name it as we like.
.SCANNER: scan-gcc-%.c: %.c :value: $(digest-in-path-optional $(INCLUDES), $&)
gcc -MM $(addprefix -I, $(INCLUDES)) $<
.SCANNER: scan-cl-%.c: %.c :value: $(digest-in-path-optional $(INCLUDES), $&)
cl --scan-dependencies-or-something $(addprefix /I, $(INCLUDES)) $<
The next step is to define explicit scanner dependencies. The :scanner: dependency is used
for this. In this case, the scanner dependencies are specified explicitly.
$(GCC_FILES): %.o: %.c :scanner: scan-gcc-%.c
gcc ...
$(CL_FILES): %.obj: %.c :scanner: scan-cl-%.c
cl ...
Explicit :scanner: scanner specification may also be used to state that a single
.SCANNER rule should be used to generate dependencies for more than one target. For example,
.SCANNER: scan-all-c: $(GCC_FILES) :value: $(digest-in-path-optional $(INCLUDES), $&)
gcc -MM $(addprefix -I, $(INCLUDES)) $(GCC_FILES)
$(GCC_FILES): %.o: %.c :scanner: scan-all-c
...
The above has the advantage of only running gcc once and a disadvantage that when a single source file changes, all the files will end up being re-scanned.
In most cases, you won’t need to define scanners of your own. The standard installation includes default scanners (both explicitly and implicitly named ones) for C, OCaml, and LATEX files.
The SCANNER_MODE variable controls the usage of implicit scanner dependencies.
The explicit :scanner: dependencies reduce the chances of scanner mis-specifications. In
large complicated projects it might be a good idea to set SCANNER_MODE to error and
use only the named .SCANNER rules and explicit :scanner: specifications.
The .DEFAULT target specifies a target to be built by default
if omake is run without explicit targets. The following rule
instructs omake to build the program hello by default
.DEFAULT: hello
The .SUBDIRS target is used to specify a set of subdirectories
that are part of the project. Each subdirectory should have its own
OMakefile, which is evaluated in the context of the current
environment.
.SUBDIRS: src doc tests
This rule specifies that the OMakefiles in each of the src, doc, and
tests directories should be read.
In some cases, especially when the OMakefiles are very similar in a large number of
subdirectories, it is inconvenient to have a separate OMakefile for each directory. If the
.SUBDIRS rule has a body, the body is used instead of the OMakefile.
.SUBDIRS: src1 src2 src3
println(Subdirectory $(CWD))
.DEFAULT: lib.a
In this case, the src1, src2, and src3 files do not need OMakefiles.
Furthermore, if one exists, it is ignored. The following includes the file if it exists.
.SUBDIRS: src1 src2 src3
if $(file-exists OMakefile)
include OMakefile
.DEFAULT: lib.a
The .INCLUDE target is like the include directive, but it specifies a rule to build
the file if it does not exist.
.INCLUDE: config
echo "CONFIG_READ = true" > config
echo CONFIG_READ is $(CONFIG_READ)
You may also specify dependencies to an .INCLUDE rule.
.INCLUDE: config: config.defaults
cp config.defaults config
A word of caution is in order here. The usual policy is used for determining when the rule is out-of-date. The rule is executed if any of the following hold.
In some of the cases, this will mean that the rule is executed even if the target file already exists. If the target is a file that you expect to edit by hand (and therefore you don’t want to overwrite it), you should make the rule evaluation conditional on whether the target already exists.
.INCLUDE: config: config.defaults
# Don't overwrite my carefully hand-edited file
if $(not $(file-exists config))
cp config.defaults config
A “phony” target is a target that is not a real file, but exists to collect a set of dependencies.
Phony targets are specified with the .PHONY rule. In the following example, the
install target does not correspond to a file, but it corresponds to some commands that should
be run whenever the install target is built (for example, by running omake install).
.PHONY: install
install: myprogram.exe
cp myprogram.exe /usr/bin
As we have mentioned before, omake is a scoped language. This provides great
flexibility—different parts of the project can define different configurations without interfering
with one another (for example, one part of the project might be compiled with CFLAGS=-O3 and
another with CFLAGS=-g).
But how is the scope for a target file selected? Suppose we are building a file dir/foo.o.
omake uses the following rules to determine the scope.
dir/foo.o (a rule with no
wildcards), the context for that rule determines the scope for building the target.
dir/ must be part of the project. This normally means that a
configuration file dir/OMakefile exists (although, see the .SUBDIRS section for
another way to specify the OMakefile). In this case, the scope of the target is the scope at
the end of the dir/OMakefile.
To illustrate rule scoping, let’s go back to the example of a “Hello world” program with two
files. Here is an example OMakefile (the two definitions of CFLAGS are for
illustration).
# The executable is compiled with debugging
CFLAGS = -g
hello: hello_code.o hello_lib.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $+
# Redefine CFLAGS
CFLAGS += -O3
In this project, the target hello is explicit. The scope of the hello target
is the line beginning with hello:, where the value of CFLAGS is -g. The other
two targets, hello_code.o and hello_lib.o do not appear as explicit targets, so their
scope is at the end of the OMakefile, where the CFLAGS variable is defined to be
-g -O3. That is, hello will be linked with CFLAGS=-g and the .o files
will be compiled with CFLAGS=-g -O3.
We can change this behavior for any of the targets by specifying them as explicit targets. For
example, suppose we wish to compile hello_lib.o with a preprocessor variable LIBRARY.
# The executable is compiled with debugging
CFLAGS = -g
hello: hello_code.o hello_lib.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $+
# Compile hello_lib.o with CFLAGS = -g -DLIBRARY
section
CFLAGS += -DLIBRARY
hello_lib.o:
# Redefine CFLAGS
CFLAGS += -O3
In this case, hello_lib.o is also mentioned as an explicit target, in a scope where
CFLAGS=-g -DLIBRARY. Since no rule body is specified, it is compiled using the usual
implicit rule for building .o files (in a context where CFLAGS=-g -DLIBRARY).
Implicit rules (rules containing wildcard patterns) are not global, they follow the normal
scoping convention. This allows different parts of a project to have different sets of implicit
rules. If we like, we can modify the example above to provide a new implicit rule for building
hello_lib.o.
# The executable is compiled with debugging
CFLAGS = -g
hello: hello_code.o hello_lib.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $+
# Compile hello_lib.o with CFLAGS = -g -DLIBRARY
section
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DLIBRARY -c $<
hello_lib.o:
# Redefine CFLAGS
CFLAGS += -O3
In this case, the target hello_lib.o is built in a scope with a new implicit rule for
building %.o files. The implicit rule adds the -DLIBRARY option. This implicit rule
is defined only for the target hello_lib.o; the target hello_code.o is built as
normal.
.SCANNER rulesScanner rules are scoped the same way as normal rules. If the .SCANNER rule is explicit
(containing no wildcard patterns), then the scope of the scan target is the same as the the rule.
If the .SCANNER rule is implicit, then the environment is taken from the :scanner:
dependency.
# The executable is compiled with debugging
CFLAGS = -g
hello: hello_code.o hello_lib.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $+
# scanner for .c files
.SCANNER: scan-c-%.c: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM $<
# Compile hello_lib.o with CFLAGS = -g -DLIBRARY
section
CFLAGS += -DLIBRARY
hello_lib.o: hello_lib.c :scanner: scan-c-hello_lib.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
# Compile hello_code.c with CFLAGS = -g -O3
section
CFLAGS += -O3
hello_code.o: hello_code.c :scanner: scan-c-hello_code.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
Again, this is for illustration—it is unlikely you would need to write a complicated configuration
like this! In this case, the .SCANNER rule specifies that the C-compiler should be called
with the -MM flag to compute dependencies. For the target hello_lib.o, the scanner
is called with CFLAGS=-g -DLIBRARY, and for hello_code.o it is called with
CFLAGS=-g -O3.
.PHONY targetsPhony targets (targets that do not correspond to files) are defined with a .PHONY: rule.
Phony targets are scoped as usual. The following illustrates a common mistake, where the
.PHONY target is declared after it is used.
# !!This example is broken!!
all: hello
hello: hello_code.o hello_lib.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $+
.PHONY: all
This doesn’t work as expected because the .PHONY declaration occurs too late. The proper way
to write this example is to place the .PHONY declaration first.
# Phony targets must be declared before being used
.PHONY: all
all: hello
hello: hello_code.o hello_lib.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $+
Phony targets are passed to subdirectories. As a practical matter, it is wise to declare all
.PHONY targets in your root OMakefile, before any .SUBDIRS. This will ensure
that 1) they are considered as phony targets in each of the subdirectories, and 2) you can build them
from the project root.
.PHONY: all install clean
.SUBDIRS: src lib clib
Note that when a .PHONY target is inherited by a subdirectory via a .SUBDIRS, a whole
hierarchy of .PHONY targets (that are a part of the global one) is created, as described in
Section 8.12.2 below.
Running omake foo asks OMake to build the file foo in context of the whole
project, even when running from a subdirectory of the project. Therefore, if bar/baz is a
regular target (not a .PHONY one), then running omake bar/baz and running
(cd bar; omake baz) are usually equivalent.
There are two noteworthy exceptions to the above rule:
.SUBDIRS) for it, then
OMake will complain if you try to run it in that directory.
OMakeroot of its own, this would designate
the subdirectory as a separate project (which is usually a bad idea and is not recommended).
Suppose you have a .PHONY: clean declared in your root OMakefile and
both the root OMakefile and the OMakefile in some of the subdirectories contain
clean: rules. In this case
omake clean in the root directory will execute all the rules (each in the
appropriate directory);
omake clean in the subdirectory will execute just its local one, as well as the
ones from the subdirectories of the current directory.
The above equally applies to the built-in .PHONY targets, including .DEFAULT.
Namely, if OMake is executed (without argument) in the root directory of a project, all the
.DEFAULT targets in the project will be built. On the other hand, when OMake is executed
(without argument) in a subdirectory, only the .DEFAULT targets defined in and under that
subdirectory will be built.
The following Section explains the underlying semantics that gives rise to the above behavior.
.PHONY targetsWhen the the root OMakefile contains a .PHONY: clean directive, it creates:
/.PHONY/clean (note the leading “/”);
.PHONY/clean (note
the lack of the leading “/”);
/.PHONY/clean: .PHONY/clean.
All the clean: ... rules in the root OMakefile following this .PHONY: clean
declaration would be interpreted as rules for the .PHONY/clean target.
Now when OMake then comes across a .SUBDIRS: foo directive (when it is in scope of the above
.PHONY: clean declaration), it does the following:
.PHONY/foo/clean “relative” phony target;
.PHONY/clean: .PHONY/foo/clean;
.SUBDIRS: foo directive, or reads the foo/OMakefile
file, if the body is empty. While doing that, it interprets its instructions relative to the
foo directory. In particular, all the clean: ... rules will be taken to apply to
.PHONY/foo/clean.
Now when you run omake clean in the root directory of the project, it is interpreted as
omake .PHONY/clean (similar to how it happens with the normal targets), so both the rules for
.PHONY/clean are executed and the rules for its dependency
.PHONY/foo/clean. Running (cd foo; omake clean) is, as for normal targets, equivalent to running
omake .PHONY/foo/clean and only those rules that apply to .PHONY/foo/clean will be executed.
In rules, the targets and dependencies are first translated to file values (as in the
file function). They are then translated to strings for the command line.
This can cause some unexpected behavior. In the following example, the absname function
is the absolute pathname for the file a, but the rule still prints
the relative pathname.
.PHONY: demo
demo: $(absname a)
echo $<
# omake demo
a
There is arguably a good reason for this. On Win32 systems, the / character is viewed as an
“option specifier.” The pathname separator is the \ character. OMake translates the
filenames automatically so that things work as expected on both systems.
demo: a/b
echo $<
# omake demo (on a Unix system)
a/b
# omake demo (on a Win32 system)
a\b
Sometimes you may wish that target strings to be passed literally to the commands in the rule. One way to do this is to specify them literally.
SRC = a/b $(absname c/d)
demo: $(SRC)
echo $(SRC)
# omake demo (on a Win32 system)
a/b c:\...\c\d
Alternately, you might wish that filenames be automatically expanded to absolute pathnames. For
example, this might be useful when parsing the OMake output to look for errors. For this, you can
use the --absname option (Section A.3.20). If you call omake with the
--absname option, all filenames will be expanded to absolute names.
# omake --absname demo (on a Unix system)
/home/.../a/b /home/.../c/d
Alternately, the --absname option is scoped. If you want to use it for only a few rules, you
can use the OMakeFlags function to control how it is applied.
section
OMakeFlags(--absname)
demo: a
echo $<
# omake demo
/home/.../a
N.B. The --absname option is currently an experimental feature.
The directory where the OMake standard library files reside. At startup, the default value is determined as follows.
OMAKELIB environment variable, if set (must contain
an absolute path, if set), otherwise
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MetaPRL\OMake\OMAKELIB and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MetaPRL\OMake\OMAKELIB are looked up and the value is used,
if exist.
The current default value may be accessed by running omake --version
An array of directories specifying the lookup path for the include and open directives (see
Section 4.8).
The default value is an array of two elements — . and $(STDLIB).
Set to the machine architecture omake is running on. Possible values are
Unix (for all Unix versions, including Linux and Mac OS X), Win32
(for MS-Windows, OMake compiled with MSVC++ or Mingw), and Cygwin (for
MS-Windows, OMake compiled with Cygwin).
Set to to either "cc" when the C compiler is invoked in Unix style,
or "msvc" for Microsoft Visual C (actually, this is the ccomp_type
variable of ocamlc -config). This setting is considered as a system
preference.
The name of the operating system for the current machine.
The hostname of the current machine.
The machine architecture, e.g. i386, sparc, etc.
The login name of the user executing the process.
The home directory of the user executing the process.
The command-line target strings. For example, if OMake is invoked with the following command line,
omake CFLAGS=1 foo bar.c
then TARGETS is defined as foo bar.c.
The BUILD_SUMMARY variable refers to the file that omake uses
to summarize a build (the message that is printed at the very end of a build).
The file is empty when the build starts. If you wish to add additional messages
to the build summary, you can edit/modify this file during the build.
For example, if you want to point out that some action was taken, you can append a message to the build summary.
foo: boo
echo "The file foo was built" >> $(BUILD_SUMMARY)
...build foo...
Whether certain commands should be verbose. A boolean flag that is false
by default and is set to true when OMake is invoked with the
--verbose option.
Boolean values in omake are represented by case-insensitive strings. The
false value can be represented by the strings false, no,
nil, undefined or 0, and everything else is true.
$(not e) : String
e : String
The not function negates a Boolean value.
For example, $(not false) expands to the string true, and
$(not hello world) expands to false.
$(equal e1, e2) : String
e1 : String
e2 : String
The equal function tests for equality of two values. This is
defined for anything that can be expanded to a string and for arrays.
For example $(equal a, b) expands to false, and $(equal hello world, hello world) expands to true.
$(and e1, ..., en) : String
e1, ..., en: Sequence
The and function evaluates to the conjunction of its arguments.
For example, in the following code, X is true, and Y is false.
A = a
B = b
X = $(and $(equal $(A), a) true $(equal $(B), b))
Y = $(and $(equal $(A), a) true $(equal $(A), $(B)))
$(or e1, ..., en) : String
e1, ..., en: String Sequence
The or function evaluates to the disjunction of its arguments.
For example, in the following code, X is true, and Y is false.
A = a
B = b
X = $(or $(equal $(A), a) false $(equal $(A), $(B)))
Y = $(or $(equal $(A), $(B)) $(equal $(A), b))
$(if e1, e2[, e3]) : value
e1 : String
e2, e3 : value
The if function represents a conditional based on a Boolean value.
For example $(if $(equal a, b), c, d) evaluates to d.
Conditionals may also be declared with an alternate syntax.
if e1
body1
elseif e2
body2
...
else
bodyn
If the expression e1 is not false, then the expressions in body1
are evaluated and the result is returned as the value of the conditional. Otherwise,
if e1 evaluates to false, the evaluation continues with the e2
expression. If none of the conditional expressions is true, then the expressions
in bodyn are evaluated and the result is returned as the value
of the conditional.
There can be any number of elseif clauses; the else clause is
optional.
Note that each branch of the conditional defines its own scope, so variables
defined in the branches are normally not visible outside the conditional.
The export command may be used to export the variables defined in
a scope. For example, the following expression represents a common idiom
for defining the C compiler configuration.
if $(equal $(OSTYPE), Win32)
CC = cl
CFLAGS += /DWIN32
export
else
CC = gcc
CFLAGS += -g -O2
export
The switch and match functions perform pattern matching.
$(switch <arg>, <pattern_1>, <value_1>, ..., <pattern_n>, <value_n>)
$(match <arg>, <pattern_1>, <value_1>, ..., <pattern_n>, <value_n>)
The number of <pattern>/<value> pairs is arbitrary. They strictly
alternate; the total number of arguments to <match> must be odd.
The <arg> is evaluated to a string, and compared with <pattern_1>.
If it matches, the result of the expression is <value_1>. Otherwise
evaluation continues with the remaining patterns until a match is found.
If no pattern matches, the value is the empty string.
The switch function uses string comparison to compare
the argument with the patterns. For example, the following
expression defines the FILE variable to be either
foo, bar, or the empty string, depending
on the value of the OSTYPE variable.
FILE = $(switch $(OSTYPE), Win32, foo, Unix, bar)
The match function uses regular expression patterns (see the
grep function). If a match is found, the variables
$1, $2, ... are bound to the substrings matched between
\( and \) delimiters.
The $0 variable contains the entire match, and $*
is an array of the matched substrings.
to the matched substrings.
FILE = $(match foo_xyz/bar.a, foo_\\\(.*\\\)/\\\(.*\\\)\.a, foo_$2/$1.o)
The switch and match functions also have an alternate (more usable)
form.
match e
case pattern1
body1
case pattern2
body2
...
default
bodyd
If the value of expression e matches pattern_i and no previous pattern,
then body_i is evaluated and returned as the result of the match.
The switch function uses string comparison; the match function
uses regular expression matching.
match $(FILE)
case $".*\(\.[^\/.]*\)"
println(The string $(FILE) has suffix $1)
default
println(The string $(FILE) has no suffix)
try
try-body
catch class1(v1)
catch-body
when expr
when-body
...
finally
finally-body
The try form is used for exception handling.
First, the expressions in the try-body are evaluated.
If evaluation results in a value v without raising an
exception, then the expressions in the finally-body
are evaluated and the value v is returned as the result.
If evaluation of the try-body results in a exception object obj,
the catch clauses are examined in order. When examining catch
clause catch class(v), if the exception object obj
is an instance of the class name class, the variable v is bound
to the exception object, and the expressions in the catch-body
are evaluated.
If a when clause is encountered while a catch body is being evaluated,
the predicate expr is evaluated. If the result is true, evaluation continues
with the expressions in the when-body. Otherwise, the next catch
clause is considered for evaluation.
If evaluation of a catch-body or when-body completes successfully,
returning a value v, without encountering another when clause,
then the expressions in the finally-body
are evaluated and the value v is returned as the result.
There can be any number of catch clauses; the finally clause
is optional.
raise exn
exn : Exception
The raise function raises an exception.
The exn object can be any object. However,
the normal convention is to raise an Exception object.
If the exception is never caught, the whole object will be verbosely
printed in the error message. However, if the object is an Exception one
and contains a message field, only that field will be included in the
error message.
exit(code)
code : Int
The exit function terminates omake abnormally.
$(exit <code>)
The exit function takes one integer argument, which is exit code.
Non-zero values indicate abnormal termination.
$(defined sequence) : String
sequence : Sequence
The defined function test whether all the variables in the sequence are
currently defined. For example, the following code defines the X variable
if it is not already defined.
if $(not $(defined X))
X = a b c
export
It is acceptable to use qualified names.
$(defined X.a.b)
$(defined public.X)
$(defined-env sequence) : String
sequence : String
The defined-env function tests whether a variable is defined
as part of the process environment.
For example, the following code adds the -g compile
option if the environment variable DEBUG is defined.
if $(defined-env DEBUG)
CFLAGS += -g
export
$(getenv name) : String $(getenv name, default) : String
The getenv function gets the value of a variable from
the process environment. The function takes one or two arguments.
In the single argument form, an exception is raised if the variable variable is not defined in the environment. In the two-argument form, the second argument is returned as the result if the value is not defined.
For example, the following code defines the variable X
to be a space-separated list of elements of the PATH
environment variable if it is defined, and to /bin /usr/bin
otherwise.
X = $(split $(PATHSEP), $(getenv PATH, /bin:/usr/bin))
You may also use the alternate form.
getenv(NAME)
default
setenv(name, value)
name : String
value : String
The setenv function sets the value of a variable in
the process environment. Environment variables are scoped
like normal variables.
unsetenv(names)
names : String Array
The unsetenv function removes some variable definitions from
the process environment. Environment variables are scoped
like normal variables.
get-registry(hkey, key, field) : String
get-registry(hkey, key, field, default) : String
hkey : String
key : String
field : String
The get-registry function retrieves a string value from the
system registry on Win32. On other architectures, there is no
registry.
The hive (I think that is the right word), indicates which part
of the registry to use. It should be one of the following values.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
Refer to the Microsoft documentation if you want to know what these mean.
The key is the field you want to get from the registry.
It should have a form like A\B\C (if you use forward slashes, they will
be converted to backslashes). The field is the sub-field of the key.
In the 4-argument form, the default is returned on failure.
You may also use the alternate form.
get-registry(hkey, key, field)
default
$(getvar name) : String
The getvar function gets the value of a variable.
An exception is raised if the variable variable is not defined.
For example, the following code defines X to be the string abc.
NAME = foo
foo_1 = abc
X = $(getvar $(NAME)_1)
It is acceptable to use qualified names.
$(getvar X.a.b)
setvar(name, value)
name : String
value : String
The setvar function defines a new variable. For example, the
following code defines the variable X to be the string abc.
NAME = X setvar($(NAME), abc)
It is acceptable to use qualified names.
setvar(public.X, abc)
$(array elements) : Array
elements : Sequence
The array function creates an array from a sequence.
If the <arg> is a string, the elements of the array
are the whitespace-separated elements of the string, respecting
quotes.
In addition, array variables can be declared as follows.
A[] =
<val1>
...
<valn>
In this case, the elements of the array are exactly
<val1>, ..., <valn>, and whitespace is
preserved literally.
$(split sep, elements) : Array
sep : String
elements : Sequence
The split function takes two arguments, a string of separators, and
a string argument. The result is an array of elements determined by
splitting the elements by all occurrence of the separator in the
elements sequence.
For example, in the following code, the X variable is
defined to be the array /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin.
PATH = /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
X = $(split :, $(PATH))
The sep argument may be omitted. In this case split breaks its
arguments along the white space. Quotations are not split.
$(concat sep, elements) : String
sep : String
elements : Sequence
The concat function takes two arguments, a separator string, and
a sequence of elements. The result is a string formed by concatenating
the elements, placing the separator between adjacent elements.
For example, in the following code, the X variable is
defined to be the string foo_x_bar_x_baz.
X = foo bar baz
Y = $(concat _x_, $(X))
$(length sequence) : Int
sequence : Sequence
The length function returns the number of elements in its argument.
For example, the expression $(length a b "c d") evaluates to 3.
$(nth i, sequence) : value
i : Int
sequence : Sequence
raises RuntimeException
The nth function returns the nth element of its argument, treated as
a list. Counting starts at 0. An exception is raised if the index is not in bounds.
For example, the expression $(nth 1, a "b c" d) evaluates to "b c".
$(replace-nth i, sequence, x) : value
i : Int
sequence : Sequence
x : value
raises RuntimeException
The replace-nth function replaces the nth element of its argument with a new
value x. Counting starts at 0. An exception is raised if the index is not in bounds.
For example, the expression $(replace-nth 1, a "b c" d, x) evaluates to a x d.
$(nth-hd i, sequence) : value
i : Int
sequence : Sequence
raises RuntimeException
The nth-hd function returns the first i elements of
the sequence. An exception is raised if the sequence is not
at least i elements long.
For example, the expression $(nth-hd 2, a "b c" d) evaluates to a "b c".
$(nth-tl i, sequence) : value
i : Int
sequence : Sequence
raises RuntimeException
The nth-tl function skips i elements of the sequence
and returns the rest. An exception is raised if the sequence is not
at least i elements long.
For example, the expression $(nth-tl 1, a "b c" d) evaluates to "b c" d.
$(subrange off, len, sequence) : value
off : Int
len : Int
sequence : Sequence
raises RuntimeException
The subrange function returns a subrange of the sequence.
Counting starts at 0. An exception is raised if the specified
range is not in bounds.
For example, the expression $(subrange 1, 2, a "b c" d e) evaluates to "b c" d.
$(rev sequence) : Sequence
sequence : Sequence
The rev function returns the elements of a sequence in reverse order.
For example, the expression $(rev a "b c" d) evaluates to d "b c" a.
$(join sequence1, sequence2) : Sequence
sequence1 : Sequence
sequence2 : Sequence
The join function joins together the elements of the two sequences. For example,
$(join a b c, .c .cpp .h) evaluates to a.c b.cpp c.h. If the two input
sequences have different lengths, the remainder of the longer sequence is copied at the end
of the output unmodified.
$(string sequence) : String
sequence : Sequence
The string function flattens a sequence into a single string.
This is similar to the concat function, but the elements are
separated by whitespace. The result is treated as a unit; whitespace
is significant.
$(string-length sequence) : Int
sequence : Sequence
The string-lenght returns a length (number of characters) in
its argument. If the argument is a sequence, it flattens it, so $(string-length sequence)
is equivalent to $(string-length $(string sequence)).
$(string-escaped sequence) : String Array
$(ocaml-escaped sequence) : String Array
$(html-escaped sequence) : String Array
$(html-pre-escaped sequence) : String Array
$(c-escaped sequence) : String Array
$(id-escaped sequence) : StringArray
$(sql-escaped sequence) : StringArray
$(uri-escaped sequence) : StringArray
sequence : Array
The string-escaped function converts each element of its
argument to a string, escaping it, if it contains symbols that are
special to OMake.
The special characters include :()\,$'"# and whitespace.
This function can be used in scanner rules to escape file names before
printing then to stdout.
The ocaml-escaped function converts each element of its
argument to a string, escaping characters that are special to OCaml.
The c-escaped function converts a string to a form that
can be used as a string constant in C.
The id-escaped function turns a string into an identifier that
may be used in OMake.
The html-escaped function turns a literal string into a form acceptable
as HTML. The html-pre-escaped function is similar, but it does not
translate newlines into <br>.
println($(string $(string-escaped $"a b" $"y:z")))
a\ b y\:z
$(hexify sequence) : sequence
sequence : Sequence
The function hexify converts a string to a HEX ASCII representation.
The inverse function is unhexify.
osh> hexify($"Hello world") - : <array <data "48656c6c6f"> <data "776f726c64">>
$(decode-uri sequence) : sequence
sequence : Sequence
These two functions perform URI encoding, where special characters are represented by hexadecimal characters.
osh> s = $(encode-uri $'a b~c')
"a+b%7ec"
osh> decode-uri($s)
"a b~c"
$(quote sequence) : String
sequence : Sequence
The quote function flattens a sequence into a single string
and adds quotes around the string. Inner quotation symbols are
escaped.
For example, the expression $(quote a "b c" d) evaluates
to "a \"b c\" d", and $(quote abc) evaluates to
"abc".
$(quote-argv sequence) : String
sequence : Sequence
The quote-argv function flattens a sequence into a single string,
and adds quotes around the string. The quotation is formed so that
a command-line parse can separate the string back into its components.
$(html-string sequence) : String
sequence : Sequence
The html-string function flattens a sequence into a single string,
and escapes special HTML characters.
This is similar to the concat function, but the elements are
separated by whitespace. The result is treated as a unit; whitespace
inside sequence elements is preserved literally.
$(addsuffix suffix, sequence) : Array
suffix : String
sequence : Sequence
The addsuffix function adds a suffix to each component of sequence.
The number of elements in the array is exactly the same as the number of
elements in the sequence.
For example, $(addsuffix .c, a b "c d") evaluates to a.c b.c "c d".c.
$(mapsuffix suffix, sequence) : Array
suffix : value
sequence : Sequence
The mapsuffix function adds a suffix to each component of sequence.
It is similar to addsuffix, but uses array concatenation instead
of string concatenation. The number of elements in the array is
twice the number of elements in the sequence.
For example, $(mapsuffix .c, a b "c d") evaluates to a .c b .c "c d" .c.
$(addsuffixes suffixes, sequence) : Array
suffixes : Sequence
sequence : Sequence
$(addprefixes prefixes, sequence) : Array
prefixes : Sequence
sequence : Sequence
The addsuffixes function adds all suffixes in its first argument
to each component of a sequence. If suffixes has n elements,
and sequence has m elements, the the result has n * m elements.
For example, the $(addsuffixes .c .o, a b c) expressions evaluates to
a.c a.o b.c b.o c.o c.a.
$(addprefixes prefixes, sequence) is roughly equivalent to $(addsuffixes sequence, prefixes).
$(removeprefix prefix, sequence) : Array
prefix : String
sequence : Array
The removeprefix function removes a prefix from each component
of a sequence.
$(removesuffix sequence) : Array
sequence : String
The removesuffix function removes the suffixes from each component
of a sequence.
For example, $(removesuffix a.c b.foo "c d") expands to a b "c d".
$(replacesuffixes old-suffixes, new-suffixes, sequence) : Array
old-suffixes : Sequence
new-suffixes : Sequence
sequence : Sequence
The replacesuffixes function modifies the suffix of each component
in sequence. The old-suffixes and new-suffixes sequences
should have the same length.
For example, $(replacesuffixes .h .c, .o .o, a.c b.h c.z) expands to a.o b.o c.z.
$(addprefix prefix, sequence) : Array
prefix : String
sequence : Sequence
The addprefix function adds a prefix to each component of a sequence.
The number of element in the result array is exactly the same as the number
of elements in the argument sequence.
For example, $(addprefix foo/, a b "c d") evaluates to foo/a foo/b foo/"c d".
$(mapprefix prefix, sequence) : Array
prefix : String
sequence : Sequence
The mapprefix function adds a prefix to each component of a sequence.
It is similar to addprefix, but array concatenation is used instead of
string concatenation. The result array contains twice as many elements
as the argument sequence.
For example, $(mapprefix foo, a b "c d") expands to foo a foo b foo "c d".
$(add-wrapper prefix, suffix, sequence) : Array
prefix : String
suffix : String
sequence : Sequence
The add-wrapper functions adds both a prefix and a suffix to each component of a sequence.
For example, the expression $(add-wrapper dir/, .c, a b) evaluates to
dir/a.c dir/b.c. String concatenation is used. The array result
has the same number of elements as the argument sequence.
$(set sequence) : Array
sequence : Sequence
The set function sorts a set of string components, eliminating duplicates.
For example, $(set z y z "m n" w a) expands to "m n" a w y z.
$(mem elem, sequence) : Boolean
elem : String
sequence : Sequence
The mem function tests for membership in a sequence.
For example, $(mem "m n", y z "m n" w a) evaluates to true,
while $(mem m n, y z "m n" w a) evaluates to false.
$(intersection sequence1, sequence2) : Array
sequence1 : Sequence
sequence2 : Sequence
The intersection function takes two arguments, treats them
as sets of strings, and computes their intersection. The order of the result
is undefined, and it may contain duplicates. Use the set
function to sort the result and eliminate duplicates in the result
if desired.
For example, the expression $(intersection c a b a, b a) evaluates to
a b a.
$(intersects sequence1, sequence2) : Boolean
sequence1 : Sequence
sequence2 : Sequence
The intersects function tests whether two sets have a non-empty intersection.
This is slightly more efficient than computing the intersection and testing whether
it is empty.
For example, the expression $(intersects a b c, d c e) evaluates to true,
and $(intersects a b c a, d e f) evaluates to false.
$(set-diff sequence1, sequence2) : Array
sequence1 : Sequence
sequence2 : Sequence
The set-diff function takes two arguments, treats them
as sets of strings, and computes their difference (all the elements of the
first set that are not present in the second one). The order of the result
is undefined and it may contain duplicates. Use the set
function to sort the result and eliminate duplicates in the result
if desired.
For example, the expression $(set-diff c a b a e, b a) evaluates to
c e.
$(filter patterns, sequence) : Array
patterns : Sequence
sequence : Sequence
The filter function picks elements from a sequence.
The patterns is a non-empty sequence of patterns, each may contain one occurrence of the wildcard
% character.
For example $(filter %.h %.o, a.c x.o b.h y.o "hello world".c) evaluates to x.o b.h y.o.
$(filter-out patterns, sequence) : Array
patterns : Sequence
sequence : Sequence
The filter-out function removes elements from a sequence.
The patterns is a non-empty sequence of patterns, each may contain one occurrence of the wildcard
% character.
For example $(filter-out %.c %.h, a.c x.o b.h y.o "hello world".c) evaluates to x.o y.o.
$(capitalize sequence) : Array
sequence : Sequence
The capitalize function capitalizes each word in a sequence.
For example, $(capitalize through the looking Glass) evaluates to
Through The Looking Glass.
$(uncapitalize sequence) : Array
sequence : Sequence
The uncapitalize function uncapitalizes each word in its argument.
For example, $(uncapitalize through the looking Glass) evaluates to
through the looking glass.
$(uppercase sequence) : Array
sequence : Sequence
The uppercase function converts each word in a sequence to uppercase.
For example, $(uppercase through the looking Glass) evaluates to
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
$(lowercase sequence) : Array
sequence : Sequence
The lowercase function reduces each word in its argument to lowercase.
For example, $(lowercase through tHe looking Glass) evaluates to
through the looking glass.
system(s)
s : Sequence
The system function is used to evaluate a shell expression.
This function is used internally by omake to evaluate
shell commands.
For example, the following program is equivalent to the
expression system(ls foo).
ls foo
$(shell command) : Array
$(shella command) : Array
$(shell-code command) : Int
command : Sequence
The shell function evaluates a command using the command shell,
and returns the whitespace-separated words of the standard output as the result.
The shella function acts similarly, but it returns the lines
as separate items in the array.
The shell-code function returns the exit code. The output is not
diverted.
For example, if the current directory contains the files OMakeroot,
OMakefile, and hello.c, then $(shell ls) evaluates to
hello.c OMakefile OMakeroot (on a Unix system).
The export function allows one to capture the current environment in a variable.
For example, the following code:
A = 1 B = 1 C = 1 SAVE_ENV = $(export A B) A = 2 B = 2 C = 2 export($(SAVE_ENV)) println($A $B $C)
will print 1 1 2.
The arguments to this function are interpreted the exact same way as the arguments to the export
special form (see Section 6.3).
while <test>
<body>
–or–
while <test>
case <test1>
<body1>
...
case <testn>
<bodyn>
default
<bodyd>
The loop is executed while the test is true.
In the first form, the <body> is executed on every loop iteration.
In the second form, the body <bodyI> is selected, as the first
case where the test <testI> is true. If none apply, the optional
default case is evaluated. If no cases are true, the loop exits.
The environment is automatically exported.
Examples.
Iterate for i from 0 to 9.
i = 0
while $(lt $i, 10)
echo $i
i = $(add $i, 1)
The following example is equivalent.
i = 0
while true
case $(lt $i, 10)
echo $i
i = $(add $i, 1)
The following example is similar, but some special cases are printed. value is printed.
i = 0
while $(lt $i, 10)
case $(equal $i, 0)
echo zero
i = $(add $i, 1)
case $(equal $i, 1)
echo one
i = $(add $i, 1)
default
echo $i
i = $(add $i, 1)
The break function can be used to break out of the while loop
early.
break
Terminate execution of the innermost loop, returning the current state.
random-init(i)
i : Int
random() : Int
Produce a random number. The numbers are pseudo-random, and are not cryptographically secure.
The generator is initialized from semi-random system data.
Subsequent runs should produce different results.
The rando-init function can be used to return
the generator to a known state.
The int function can be used to create integers.
It returns an Int object.
$(int 17).
The float function can be used to create floating-point numbers.
It returns a Float object.
$(float 3.1415926).
The following functions can be used to perform basic arithmetic.
$(neg <numbers>): arithmetic inverse
$(add <numbers>): addition.
$(sub <numbers>): subtraction.
$(mul <numbers>): multiplication.
$(div <numbers>): division.
$(mod <numbers>): remainder.
$(lnot <numbers>): bitwise inverse.
$(land <numbers>): bitwise and.
$(lor <numbers>): bitwise or.
$(lxor <numbers>): bitwise exclusive-or.
$(lsl <numbers>): logical shift left.
$(lsr <numbers>): logical shift right.
$(asr <numbers>): arithmetic shift right.
$(min <numbers>): smallest element.
$(max <numbers>): largest element.
The following functions can be used to perform numerical comparisons.
$(lt <numbers>): less then.
$(le <numbers>): no more than.
$(eq <numbers>): equal.
$(ge <numbers>): no less than.
$(gt <numbers>): greater than.
$(ult <numbers>): unsigned less than.
$(ule <numbers>): unsigned greater than.
$(uge <numbers>): unsigned greater than or equal.
$(ugt <numbers>): unsigned greater than.
The fun form introduces anonymous functions.
$(fun <v1>, ..., <vn> => <body>)
The last argument is the body of the function. The other arguments are the parameter names.
The three following definitions are equivalent.
F(X, Y) =
return($(addsuffix $(Y), $(X)))
F = $(fun X, Y => $(addsuffix $(Y), $(X)))
F =
fun(X, Y) =>
value $(addsuffix $(Y), $(X))
The apply operator is used to apply a function.
$(apply <fun>, <args>)
Suppose we have the following function definition.
F(X, Y) =
return($(addsuffix $(Y), $(X)))
The the two expressions below are equivalent.
X = F(a b c, .c)
X = $(apply $(F), a b c, .c)
The apply form can also be used for partial applications,
where a function is passed fewer arguments than it expects. The
result is a function that takes the remaining arguments,
and calls the function with the full set of arguments.
add2(i, j) =
add($i, $j)
succ = $(apply $(add2), 1)
i = $(succ 5) # Computes 1+5
The applya operator is used to apply a function to
an array of arguments.
$(applya <fun>, <args>)
For example, in the following program, the value
of Z is file.c.
F(X, Y) =
return($(addsuffix $(Y), $(X)))
args[] =
file
.c
Z = $(applya $(F), $(args))
The applya form can also be used for partial applications.
The create-map is a simplified form for creating Map objects.
The create-map function takes an even number of arguments that specify
key/value pairs. For example, the following values are equivalent.
X = $(create-map name1, xxx, name2, yyy)
X. =
extends $(Map)
$|name1| = xxx
$|name2| = yyy
The create-lazy-map function is similar, but the values are computed
lazily. The following two definitions are equivalent.
Y = $(create-lazy-map name1, $(xxx), name2, $(yyy))
Y. =
extends $(Map)
$|name1| = $`(xxx)
$|name2| = $`(yyy)
The create-lazy-map function is used in rule construction.
The foreach function maps a function over a sequence.
$(foreach <fun>, <args>)
foreach(<var> => ..., <args>)
<body>
For example, the following program defines the variable X
as an array a.c b.c c.c.
X =
foreach(x => ..., a b c)
value $(x).c
# Equivalent expression
X = $(foreach $(fun x => ..., $(x).c), a b c)
There is also an abbreviated syntax.
The export form can also be used in a foreach
body. The final value of X is a.c b.c c.c.
X =
foreach(x => ..., a b c)
X += $(x).c
export
The break function can be used to break out of the loop early.
The forall function tests whether a predicate holds for each
element of a sequence.
$(sequence-forall <fun>, <args>)
sequence-forall(<var> => ..., <args>)
<body>
The exists function tests whether a predicate holds for
some element of a sequence.
$(sequence-exists <fun>, <args>)
sequence-exists(<var> => ..., <args>)
<body>
The sort function sorts the elements in an array,
given a comparison function. Given two elements (x, y),
the comparison should return a negative number if x < y;
a positive number if x > y; and 0 if x = y.
$(sequence-sort <fun>, <args>)
sort(<var>, <var> => ..., <args>)
<body>
The compare function compares two values (x, y) generically
returning a negative number if x < y;
a positive number if x > y; and 0 if x = y.
$(compare x, y) : Int
$(file sequence) : File Sequence
sequence : Sequence
$(dir sequence) : Dir Sequence
sequence : Sequence
The file and dir functions define location-independent references to files and directories.
In omake, the commands to build a target are executed in the target’s directory. Since there may be
many directories in an omake project, the build system provides a way to construct a reference to a file
in one directory, and use it in another without explicitly modifying the file name. The functions have the following
syntax, where the name should refer to a file or directory.
For example, we can construct a reference to a file foo in the current directory.
FOO = $(file foo) .SUBDIRS: bar
If the FOO variable is expanded in the bar subdirectory, it will expand to ../foo.
These commands are often used in the top-level OMakefile to provide location-independent references to top-level directories, so that build commands may refer to these directories as if they were absolute.
ROOT = $(dir .) LIB = $(dir lib) BIN = $(dir bin)
Once these variables are defined, they can be used in build commands in subdirectories as follows, where
$(BIN) will expand to the location of the bin directory relative to the command being executed.
install: hello cp hello $(BIN)
$(tmpfile prefix) : File
$(tmpfile prefix, suffix) : File
prefix : String
suffix : String
The tmpfile function returns the name of a fresh temporary file in
the temporary directory.
$(in dir, exp) : String Array
dir : Dir
exp : expression
The in function is closely related to the dir and
file functions. It takes a directory and an expression, and
evaluates the expression in that effective directory.
For example, one common way to install a file is to define a symbol link, where the
value of the link is relative to the directory where the link is created.
The following commands create links in the $(LIB) directory.
FOO = $(file foo)
install:
ln -s $(in $(LIB), $(FOO)) $(LIB)/foo
Note that the in function only affects the expansion of Node
(File and Dir) values.
$(basename files) : String Sequence
files : String Sequence
The basename function returns the base names for a list of files.
The basename is the filename with any leading directory components removed.
For example, the expression $(basename dir1/dir2/a.out /etc/modules.conf /foo.ml) evaluates to
a.out modules.conf foo.ml.
$(dirname files) : String Sequence
files : String Sequence
The dirname function returns the directory name for a list of files.
The directory name is the filename with the basename removed. If a name
does not have a directory part, the directory is “.”
For example, the expression $(dirname dir1\dir2\a.out /etc/modules.conf /foo.ml bar.ml) evaluates to
dir1/dir2 /etc / ..
Note: this function is different from the dirof function.
The function dirname is simple a function over strings, while
dirof is a function on filenames.
$(rootname files) : String Sequence
files : String Sequence
The rootname function returns the root name for a list of files.
The rootname is the filename with the final suffix removed.
For example, the expression $(rootname dir1/dir2/a.out /etc/a.b.c /foo.ml) evaluates to
dir1/dir2/a /etc/a.b /foo.
$(dirof files) : Dir Sequence
files : File Sequence
The dirof function returns the directory for each of the listed files.
For example, the expression $(dirof dir/dir2/a.out /etc/modules.conf /foo.ml) evaluates
to the directories dir1/dir2 /etc /.
$(fullname files) : String Sequence
files : File Sequence
The fullname function returns the pathname relative to the project root
for each of the files or directories.
$(absname files) : String Sequence
files : File Sequence
The absname function returns the absolute pathname for each of the files
or directories.
$(homename files) : String Sequence
files : File Sequence
The homename function returns the name of a file in
tilde form, if possible. The unexpanded forms are computed
lazily: the homename function will usually evaluate to an absolute
pathname until the first tilde-expansion for the same directory.
$(suffix files) : String Sequence
files : StringSequence
The suffix function returns the suffixes for a list of files.
If a file has no suffix, the function returns the empty string.
For example, the expression $(suffix dir1/dir2/a.out /etc/a /foo.ml) evaluates
to .out .ml.
$(which files) : File Sequence
files : String Sequence
The which function searches for executables in the
current command search path, and returns file values
for each of the commands. It is an error if a command is
not found.
The where function is similar to which, except it returns the list of
all the locations of the given executable (in the order in which the
corresponding directories appear in $PATH). In case a command is handled
internally by the Shell object, the first string in the output will
describe the command as a built-in function.
% where echo
echo is a Shell object method (a built-in function)
/bin/echo
rehash()
The rehash function resets all search paths.
$(exists-in-path files) : String
files : String Sequence
The exists-in-path function tests whether all executables
are present in the current search path.
$(digest files) : String Array
file : File Array
raises RuntimeException
$(digest-optional files) : String Array
file : File Array
$(digest-string s) : String
s : String
The digest and digest-optional functions compute MD5 digests
of files. The digest function raises an exception if a file
does no exist. The digest-optional returns false if a
file does no exist. MD5 digests are cached.
$(find-in-path path, files) : File Array
path : Dir Array
files : String Array
raises RuntimeException
$(find-in-path-optional path, files) : File Array
The find-in-path function searches for the files in a search
path. Only the tail of the filename is significant. The find-in-path
function raises an exception if the file can’t be found.
The find-in-path-optional function silently removes
files that can’t be found.
$(digest-in-path path, files) : String/File Array
path : Dir Array
files : String Array
raises RuntimeException
$(digest-in-path-optional path, files) : String/File Array
The digest-in-path function searches for the files in a search
path and returns the file and digest for each file. Only the tail of the
filename is significant. The digest-in-path function raises an exception
if the file can’t be found. The digest-in-path-optional
function silently removes elements that can’t be found.
$(file-exists files) : String
$(target-exists files) : String
$(target-is-proper files) : String
files : File Sequence
The file-exists function checks whether the files listed exist.
The target-exists function is similar to the file-exists function.
However, it returns true if the file exists or if it can be built
by the current project. The target-is-proper returns true only
if the file can be generated in the current project.
$(stat-reset files) : String
files : File Sequence
OMake uses a stat-cache. The stat-reset function reset the stat
information for the given files, forcing the stat information to
be recomputed the next time it is requested.
$(filter-exists files) : File Sequence
$(filter-targets files) : File Sequence
$(filter-proper-targets) : File Sequence
files : File Sequence
The filter-exists, filter-targets, and filter-proper-targets
functions remove files from a list of files.
filter-exists: the result is the list of files that exist.
filter-targets: the result is the list of files either exist, or
can be built by the current project.
filter-proper-targets: the result is the list of files that can
be built in the current project.
One way to create a simple “distclean” rule that removes generated files from
the project is by removing all files that can be built in the current
project.
CAUTION: you should be careful before you do this. The rule removes any file that can potentially be reconstructed. There is no check to make sure that the commands to rebuild the file would actually succeed. Also, note that no file outside the current project will be deleted.
.PHONY: distclean
distclean:
rm $(filter-proper-targets $(ls R, .))
If you use CVS, you may wish to utilize the cvs_realclean program that
is distributed with OMake in order to create a “distclean” rule that would
delete all the files thare are not known to CVS. For example, if you already have a more traditional
“clean” target defined in your project, and if you want the “distclean” rule to
be interactive by default, you can write the following:
if $(not $(defined FORCE_REALCLEAN))
FORCE_REALCLEAN = false
export
distclean: clean
cvs_realclean $(if $(FORCE_REALCLEAN), -f) -i .omakedb -i .omakedb.lock
You can add more files that you want to always keep (such as configuration files) with the -i option.
Similarly, if you use Subversion, you utilize the build/svn_realclean.om script that comes with OMake:
if $(not $(defined FORCE_REALCLEAN))
FORCE_REALCLEAN = false
export
open build/svn_realclean
distclean: clean
svn_realclean $(if $(FORCE_REALCLEAN), -f) -i .omakedb -i .omakedb.lock
See also the dependencies-proper function for an alternate method for removing intermediate files.
$(find-targets-in-path path files) : File Array
$(find-targets-in-path-optional path, files) : File Array
path : Dir Array
files : File Sequence
The find-target-in-path function searches for targets in the
search path. For each file file in the file list, the path is
searched sequentially for a directory dir such that the target
dir/file exists. If so, the file dir/file is returned.
For example, suppose you are building a C project, and project
contains a subdirectory src/ containing only the files
fee.c and foo.c. The following expression
evaluates to the files src/fee.o src/foo.o even
if the files have not already been built.
$(find-targets-in-path lib src, fee.o foo.o)
# Evaluates to
src/fee.o src/foo.o
The find-targets-in-path
function raises an exception if the file can’t be found.
The find-targets-in-path-optional function silently removes
targets that can’t be found.
$(find-targets-in-path-optional lib src, fee.o foo.o fum.o)
# Evaluates to
src/fee.o src/foo.o
The find-ocaml-targets-in-path-optional function is very similar to the
find-targets-in-path-optional one, except an OCaml-style search
is used, where for every element of the search path and for every name being
searched for, first the uncapitalized version is tried and if it is not buildable,
then the capitalized version is tried next.
$(file-sort order, files) : File Sequence
order : String
files : File Sequence
The file-sort function sorts a list of filenames by
build order augmented by a set of sort rules. Sort
rules are declared using the .ORDER target.
The .BUILDORDER defines the default order.
$(file-sort <order>, <files>)
For example, suppose we have the following set of rules.
a: b c
b: d
c: d
.DEFAULT: a b c d
echo $(file-sort .BUILDORDER, a b c d)
In the case, the sorter produces the result d b c a.
That is, a target is sorted after its dependencies.
The sorter is frequently used to sort files that are to be linked
by their dependencies (for languages where this matters).
There are three important restrictions to the sorter:
It is possible to further constrain the sorter through the use of
sort rules. A sort rule is declared in two steps. The
target must be listed as an .ORDER target; and then
a set of sort rules must be given. A sort rule defines
a pattern constraint.
.ORDER: .MYORDER
.MYORDER: %.foo: %.bar
.MYORDER: %.bar: %.baz
.DEFAULT: a.foo b.bar c.baz d.baz
echo $(sort .MYORDER, a.foo b.bar c.baz d.baz)
In this example, the .MYORDER sort rule specifies that any
file with a suffix .foo should be placed after any file with
suffix .bar, and any file with suffix .bar should be
placed after a file with suffix .baz.
In this example, the result of the sort is d.baz c.baz b.bar a.foo.
file-check-sort(files)
files : File Sequence
raises RuntimeException
The file-check-sort function checks whether a list of files
is in sort order. If so, the list is returned unchanged.
If not, the function raises an exception.
$(file-check-sort <order>, <files>)
OMake commands are “glob-expanded” before being executed. That is, names may contain patterns that are expanded to sequences of file and directory names. The syntax follows the standard bash(1), csh(1), syntax, with the following rules.
/ or \ characters. For example, the following pathnames
refer to the same file: /home/jyh/OMakefile and /home\jyh/OMakefile.For the following examples, suppose that a directory /dir contains files
named a, -a, a.b, and b.c.
/dir/a* expands to /dir/a /dir/aa /dir/a.b./dir/?a expands
the filename /dir/-a.-, the - should occur as the first character in
the range.| Pattern | Expansion |
/dir/[a-b]* | /dir/a /dir/a.b /dir/b.c |
/dir/[-a-b]* | /dir/a /dir/-a /dir/a.b /dir/b.c |
/dir/[-a]* | /dir/a /dir/-a /dir/a.b |
| Pattern | Expansion |
a{b,c,d} | ab ac ad |
a{b{c,d},e} | abc abd ae |
a{?{[A-Z],d},*} | a?[A-Z] a?d a*
|
| Pattern | Expansion |
~jyh | /home/jyh |
~bob/*.c | c:\Documents and Settings\users\bob
|
\ character is both a pathname separator
and an escape character. If followed by a special glob character,
the \ changes the sense of the following character to non-special
status. Otherwise, \ is viewed as a pathname separator.| Pattern | Expansion |
~jyh/\* | ~jyh/* (* is literal) |
/dir/\[a-z? | /dir/[a-z? ([ is literal, ? is a pattern). |
c:\Program Files\[A-z] | c:\Program Files[A-z]*
|
Note that the final case might be considered to be ambiguous (where \ should
be viewed as a pathname separator, not as an escape for the subsequent [
character. If you want to avoid this ambiguity on Win32, you should use the
forward slash / even for Win32 pathnames (the / is translated
to \ in the output).
| Pattern | Expansion |
c:/Program Files/[A-z]* | c:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate ...
|
$(glob strings) : Node Array
strings : String Sequence
$(glob options, strings) : Node Array
options : String
strings : String Sequence
The glob function performs glob-expansion.
The . and .. entries are always ignored.
The options are:
\ character does not escape special characters.
In addition, the following variables may be defined that affect the
behavior of glob.
glob should ignore.
GLOB_ALLOW, it is ignored.
The returned files are sorted by name.
$(ls files) : Node Array
files : String Sequence
$(ls options, files) : Node Array
files : String Sequence
The ls function returns the filenames in a directory.
The . and .. entries are always ignored. The patterns are shell-style patterns, and are glob-expanded.
The options include all of the options to the glob function,
plus the following.
The GLOB_ALLOW and GLOB_IGNORE variables can be defined
to control the globbing behavior.
The returned files are sorted by name.
$(subdirs dirs) : Dir Array
dirs : String Sequence
$(subdirs options, dirs) : Dir Array
options : String
dirs : String Sequence
The subdirs function returns all the subdirectories
of a list of directories, recursively.
The possible options are the following:
mkdir(mode, node...)
mode : Int
node : Node
raises RuntimeException
mkdir(node...)
node : Node
raises RuntimeException
The mkdir function creates a directory, or a set of directories.
The following options are supported.
The Stat object represents an information about a filesystem node,
as returned by the stat and lstat functions.
It contains the following fields.
REG (regular file),
DIR (directory),
CHR (character device),
BLK (block device),
LNK (symbolic link),
FIFO (named pipe),
SOCK (socket).
Not all of the fields will have meaning on all operating systems.
$(stat node...) : Stat
node : Node or Channel
$(lstat node...) : Stat
node : Node or Channel
raises RuntimeException
The stat functions return file information.
If the file is a symbolic link, the stat function refers to the
destination of the link; the lstat function refers to the link
itself.
$(unlink file...)
file : File
#(rm file...)
file : File
$(rmdir dir...)
dir : Dir
raises RuntimeException
The unlink and rm functions remove a file.
The rmdir function removes a directory.
The following options are supported for rm and rmdir.
rename(old, new)
old : Node
new : Node
mv(nodes... dir)
nodes : Node Sequence
dir : Dir
cp(nodes... dir)
nodes : Node Sequence
dir : Dir
raises RuntimeException
The rename function changes the name of a file or directory named old
to new.
The mv function is similar, but if new is a directory, and it exists,
then the files specified by the sequence are moved into the directory. If not,
the behavior of mv is identical to rename. The cp function
is similar, but the original file is not removed.
The mv and cp functions take the following options.
link(src, dst)
src : Node
dst : Node
raises RuntimeException
The link function creates a hard link named dst to the file
or directory src.
Hard links may work under Win32 when NTFS is used.
Normally, only the superuser can create hard links to directories.
symlink(src, dst)
src : Node
dst : Node
symlink-raw(src, dst)
src : String
dst : Node
raises RuntimeException
The symlink function creates a symbolic link dst that
points to the src file.
For symlink, the link name is computed relative to
the target directory. For example, the expression
$(symlink a/b, c/d) creates a link named
c/d -> ../a/b.
The function symlink-raw performs no translation.
The symbolic link is set to the src string.
Symbolic links are not supported in Win32. Consider using the ln-or-cp
Shell alias for cross-platform portable linking/copying.
$(readlink node...) : Node
node : Node
$(readlink-raw node...) : String
node : Node
The readlink function reads the value of a symbolic link.
chmod(mode, dst...)
mode : Int
dst : Node or Channel
chmod(mode dst...)
mode : String
dst : Node Sequence
raises RuntimeException
The chmod function changes the permissions of the targets.
Options:
chown(uid, gid, node...)
uid : Int
gid : Int
node : Node or Channel
chown(uid, node...)
uid : Int
node : Node or Channel
raises RuntimeException
The chown function changes the user and group id of the file.
If the gid is not specified, it is not changed. If either
id is -1, that id is not changed.
utimes(atime, mtime, node...)
atime : Float
mtime : Float
node : Node
raises RuntimeException
The utimes function changes the access and modification
times of the files.
truncate(length, node...)
length : Int
node : Node or Channel
raises RuntimeException
The truncate function truncates a file to the given length.
$(umask mode) : Int
mode : Int
raises RuntimeException
Sets the file mode creation mask. The previous mask is returned. This value is not scoped, changes have global effect.
vmount(src, dst)
src, dst : Dir
vmount(flags, src, dst)
flags : String
src, dst : Dir
“Mount” the src directory on the dst directory. This is
a virtual mount, changing the behavior of the $(file ...) function.
When the $(file str) function is used, the resulting file is taken
relative to the src directory if the file exists. Otherwise, the
file is relative to the current directory.
The main purpose of the vmount function is to support multiple
builds with separate configurations or architectures.
The options are as follows.
src directory.
src directory.
Mount operations are scoped.
add-project-directories(dirs)
dirs : Dir Array
Add the directories to the set of directories that omake considers to be part of the project. This is mainly used to avoid omake complaining that the current directory is not part of the project.
remove-project-directories(dirs)
dirs : Dir Array
Removed the directories from the set of directories that omake considers to be part
of the project. This is mainly used to cancel a .SUBDIRS from including
a directory if it is determined that the directory does not need to be compiled.
test(exp) : Bool
exp : String Sequence
The expression grammar is as follows:
! expression : expression is not true
-a expression2 : both expressions are true
-o expression2 : at least one expression is true
( expression ) : expression is true
The base expressions are:
-n string : The string has nonzero length
-z string : The string has zero length
= string : The strings are equal
!= string : The strings are not equal-eq int2 : The integers are equal
-ne int2 : The integers are not equal
-gt int2 : int1 is larger than int2
-ge int2 : int2 is not larger than int1
-lt int2 : int1 is smaller than int2
-le int2 : int1 is not larger than int2-ef file2 : On Unix, file1 and file2 have the
same device and inode number.
On Win32, file1 and file2 have the
same name.
-nt file2 : file1 is newer than file2
-ot file2 : file1 is older than file2-b file : The file is a block special file
-c file : The file is a character special file
-d file : The file is a directory
-e file : The file exists
-f file : The file is a normal file
-g file : The set-group-id bit is set on the file
-G file : The file’s group is the current effective group
-h file : The file is a symbolic link (also -L)
-k file : The file’s sticky bit is set
-L file : The file is a symbolic link (also -h)
-O file : The file’s owner is the current effective user
-p file : The file is a named pipe
-r file : The file is readable
-s file : The file has a non-zero size
-S file : The file is a socket
-u file : The set-user-id bit is set on the file
-w file : The file is writable
-x file : The file is executable
A string is any sequence of characters; leading - characters are allowed.
An int is a string that can be interpreted as an integer. Unlike traditional
versions of the test program, the leading characters may specify an arity. The
prefix 0b means the numbers is in binary; the prefix 0o means
the number is in octal; the prefix 0x means the number is in hexadecimal.
An int can also be specified as -l string, which evaluates to the length of
the string.
A file is a string that represents the name of a file.
The syntax mirrors that of the test(1) program. If you are on a Unix system, the man page explains more. Here are some examples.
# Create an empty file
osh> touch foo
# Is the file empty?
osh> test(-e foo)
- : true
osh> test(! -e foo)
- : false
# Create another file
osh> touch boo
# Is the newer file newer?
osh> test(boo -nt foo)
- : true
# A more complex query
# boo is newer than foo, and foo is empty
osh> test(\( boo -nt foo \) -a -e foo)
- : true
find(exp) : Node Array
exp : String Sequence
The find function searches a directory recursively, returning the
files for which the expression evaluates to true.
The expression argument uses the same syntax as the test function,
with the following exceptions.
{} string expands to the current file being examined.
The syntax of the expression is the same as test, with the following
additions.
-name string : The current file matches the glob expression
(see Section 10.4).
-regex string : The current file matches the regular expression
The find function performs a recursive scan of all subdirectories.
The following call is being run from the root of the omake source directory.
osh> find(. -name fo* )
- : <array
/home/jyh/.../omake/mk/.svn/format
/home/jyh/.../omake/RPM/.svn/format
...
/home/jyh/.../omake/osx_resources/installer_files/.svn/format>
Another example, listing only those files that are normal files or symbolic links.
osh> find(. -name fo* -a \( -f {} -o -L {} \))
- : <array
/home/jyh/.../omake/mk/.svn/format
/home/jyh/.../omake/RPM/.svn/format
...
/home/jyh/.../omake/osx_resources/installer_files/.svn/format>
The following variables define the standard channels.
stdin : InChannel
The standard input channel, open for reading.
stdout : OutChannel
The standard output channel, open for writing.
stderr : OutChannel
The standard error channel, open for writing.
The open-in-string treats a string as if it were a file
and returns a channel for reading.
$(open-in-string s) : Channel
s : String
The open-out-string creates a channel that writes to a
string instead of a file. The string may be retrieved with the
out-contents function.
$(open-out-string) : Channel
$(out-contents chan) : String
chan : OutChannel
The fopen function opens a file for reading or writing.
$(fopen file, mode) : Channel
file : File
mode : String
The file is the name of the file to be opened.
The mode is a combination of the following characters.
Binary mode is not significant on Unix systems, where text and binary modes are equivalent.
$(close channel...)
channel : Channel
The close function closes a file that was previously opened
with fopen.
$(read channel, amount) : String
$(input-line channel) : String
channel : InChannel
amount : Int
raises RuntimeException
The read function reads up to amount
bytes from an input channel, and returns
the data that was read. The input-line function reads a line from the file and returns the line read, without
the line terminator. If an end-of-file condition is reached, both functions raise a RuntimeException
exception.
$(write channel, buffer, offset, amount) : String
channel : OutChannel
buffer : String
offset : Int
amount : Int
$(write channel, buffer) : String
channel : OutChannel
buffer : String
raises RuntimeException
In the 4-argument form, the write function writes
bytes to the output channel channel from the buffer,
starting at position offset. Up to amount bytes
are written. The function returns the number of bytes that were
written.
The 3-argument form is similar, but the offset is 0.
In the 2-argument form, the offset is 0, and the amount
if the length of the buffer.
If an end-of-file condition is reached,
the function raises a RuntimeException exception.
$(lseek channel, offset, whence) : Int
channel : Channel
offset : Int
whence : String
raises RuntimeException
The lseek function repositions the offset of the
channel channel according to the whence directive, as
follows:
offset.
offset bytes.
offset bytes.
The lseek function returns the new position in the file.
rewind(channel...)
channel : Channel
The rewind function set the current file position to the
beginning of the file.
$(tell channel...) : Int...
channel : Channel
raises RuntimeException
The tell function returns the current position of the channel.
$(flush channel...)
channel : OutChannel
The flush function can be used only on files that are open for writing.
It flushes all pending data to the file.
$(channel-name channel...) : String
channel : Channel
The channel-name function returns the name that is associated with the channel.
$(dup channel) : Channel
channel : Channel
raises RuntimeException
The dup function returns a new channel referencing the
same file as the argument.
dup2(channel1, channel2)
channel1 : Channel
channel2 : Channel
raises RuntimeException
The dup2 function causes channel2 to refer to the same
file as channel1.
set-nonblock-mode(mode, channel...)
channel : Channel
mode : String
The set-nonblock-mode function sets the nonblocking flag on the
given channel. When IO is performed on the channel, and the operation
cannot be completed immediately, the operations raises a RuntimeException.
set-close-on-exec-mode(mode, channel...)
channel : Channel
mode : String
raises RuntimeException
The set-close-on-exec-mode function sets the close-on-exec
flags for the given channels. If the close-on-exec flag is set, the channel
is not inherited by child processes. Otherwise it is.
$(pipe) : Pipe raises RuntimeException
The pipe function creates a Pipe object, which has two
fields. The read field is a channel that is opened for
reading, and the write field is a channel that is opened
for writing.
mkfifo(mode, node...)
mode : Int
node : Node
The mkfifo function creates a named pipe.
$(select rfd..., wfd..., wfd..., timeout) : Select
rfd : InChannel
wfd : OutChannel
efd : Channel
timeout : float
raises RuntimeException
The select function polls for possible IO on a set of channels.
The rfd are a sequence of channels for reading, wfd are a
sequence of channels for writing, and efd are a sequence of
channels to poll for error conditions. The timeout specifies
the maximum amount of time to wait for events.
On successful return, select returns a Select object,
which has the following fields:
lockf(channel, command, len)
channel : Channel
command : String
len : Int
raises RuntimeException
The lockf function places a lock on a region of the channel.
The region starts at the current position and extends for len
bytes.
The possible values for command are the following.
The InetAddr object describes an Internet address.
It contains the following fields.
String: the Internet address.
Int: the port number.
A Host object contains the following fields.
String: the name of the host.
String Array: other names by which the host is known.
String: the preferred socket domain.
InetAddr Array: an array of Internet addresses belonging to the host.
$(gethostbyname host...) : Host...
host : String
raises RuntimeException
The gethostbyname function returns a Host object
for the specified host. The host may specify a domain name
or an Internet address.
The Protocol object represents a protocol entry.
It has the following fields.
String: the canonical name of the protocol.
String Array: aliases for the protocol.
Int: the protocol number.
$(getprotobyname name...) : Protocol...
name : Int or String
raises RuntimeException
The getprotobyname function returns a Protocol object for the
specified protocol. The name may be a protocol name, or a
protocol number.
The Service object represents a network service.
It has the following fields.
String: the name of the service.
String Array: aliases for the service.
Int: the port number of the service.
Protocol: the protocol for the service.
$(getservbyname service...) : Service...
service : String or Int
raises RuntimeException
The getservbyname function gets the information for a network service.
The service may be specified as a service name or number.
$(socket domain, type, protocol) : Channel
domain : String
type : String
protocol : String
raises RuntimeException
The socket function creates an unbound socket.
The possible values for the arguments are as follows.
The domain may have the following values.
The type may have the following values.
The protocol is an Int or String that specifies
a protocol in the protocols database.
bind(socket, host, port)
socket : InOutChannel
host : String
port : Int
bind(socket, file)
socket : InOutChannel
file : File
raise RuntimeException
The bind function binds a socket to an address.
The 3-argument form specifies an Internet connection, the host specifies a host name
or IP address, and the port is a port number.
The 2-argument form is for Unix sockets. The file specifies the filename
for the address.
listen(socket, requests)
socket : InOutChannel
requests : Int
raises RuntimeException
The listen function sets up the socket for receiving up to requests number
of pending connection requests.
$(accept socket) : InOutChannel
socket : InOutChannel
raises RuntimeException
The accept function accepts a connection on a socket.
connect(socket, addr, port)
socket : InOutChannel
addr : String
port : int
connect(socket, name)
socket : InOutChannel
name : File
raise RuntimeException
The connect function connects a socket to a remote address.
The 3-argument form specifies an Internet connection.
The addr argument is the Internet address of the remote host,
specified as a domain name or IP address. The port argument
is the port number.
The 2-argument form is for Unix sockets. The name argument
is the filename of the socket.
$(getc) : String
$(getc file) : String
file : InChannel or File
raises RuntimeException
The getc function returns the next character of a file.
If the argument is not specified, stdin is used as input.
If the end of file has been reached, the function returns false.
$(gets) : String
$(gets channel) : String
channel : InChannel or File
raises RuntimeException
The gets function returns the next line from a file.
The function returns the empty string if the end of file has been reached.
The line terminator is removed.
$(fgets) : String
$(fgets channel) : String
channel : InChannel or File
raises RuntimeException
The fgets function returns the next line from a file that has been
opened for reading with fopen. The function returns the empty string
if the end of file has been reached. The returned string is returned as
literal data. The line terminator is not removed.
Output is printed with the print and println functions.
The println function adds a terminating newline to the value being
printed, the print function does not.
fprint(<file>, <string>)
print(<string>)
eprint(<string>)
fprintln(<file>, <string>)
println(<string>)
eprintln(<string>)
The fprint functions print to a file that has been previously opened with
fopen. The print functions print to the standard output channel, and
the eprint functions print to the standard error channel.
Values can be printed with the printv and printvln functions.
The printvln function adds a terminating newline to the value being
printed, the printv function does not.
fprintv(<file>, <string>)
printv(<string>)
eprintv(<string>)
fprintvln(<file>, <string>)
printvln(<string>)
eprintvln(<string>)
The fprintv functions print to a file that has been previously opened with
fopen. The printv functions print to the standard output channel, and
the eprintv functions print to the standard error channel.
set-channel-line(channel, filename, line)
channel : Channel
filename : File
line : int
Set the line number information for the channel.
Many of the higher-level functions use regular expressions. Regular expressions are defined by strings with syntax nearly identical to awk(1).
Strings may contain the following character constants.
\\ : a literal backslash.
\a : the alert character ^G.
\b : the backspace character ^H.
\f : the formfeed character ^L.
\n : the newline character ^J.
\r : the carriage return character ^M.
\t : the tab character ^I.
\v : the vertical tab character.
\xhh... : the character represented by the string
of hexadecimal digits h. All valid hexadecimal digits
following the sequence are considered to be part of the sequence.
\ddd : the character represented by 1, 2, or 3 octal
digits.
Regular expressions are defined using the special characters .\^$[(){}*?+.
c : matches the literal character c if c is not
a special character.
\c : matches the literal character c, even if c
is a special character.
. : matches any character, including newline.
^ : matches the beginning of a line.
$ : matches the end of line.
[abc...] : matches any of the characters abc...
[^abc...] : matches any character except abc...
r1|r2 : matches either r1 or r2.
r1r2 : matches r1 and then r2.
r+ : matches one or more occurrences of r.
r* : matches zero or more occurrences of r.
r? : matches zero or one occurrence of r.
(r) : parentheses are used for grouping; matches r.
\(r\) : also defines grouping, but the expression matched
within the parentheses is available to the output processor
through one of the variables $1, $2, ...
r{n} : matches exactly n occurrences of r.
r{n,} : matches n or more occurrences of r.
r{n,m} : matches at least n occurrences of r,
and no more than m occurrences.
\y: matches the empty string at either the beginning or
end of a word.
\B: matches the empty string within a word.
\<: matches the empty string at the beginning of a word.
\>: matches the empty string at the end of a word.
\w: matches any character in a word.
\W: matches any character that does not occur within a word.
\`: matches the empty string at the beginning of a file.
\': matches the empty string at the end of a file.
Character classes can be used to specify character sequences abstractly. Some of these sequences can change depending on your LOCALE.
[[:alnum:]] Alphanumeric characters.
[[:alpha:]] Alphabetic characters.
[[:lower:]] Lowercase alphabetic characters.
[[:upper:]] Uppercase alphabetic characters.
[[:cntrl:]] Control characters.
[[:digit:]] Numeric characters.
[[:xdigit:]] Numeric and hexadecimal characters.
[[:graph:]] Characters that are printable and visible.
[[:print:]] Characters that are printable, whether they are visible or not.
[[:punct:]] Punctuation characters.
[[:blank:]] Space or tab characters.
[[:space:]] Whitespace characters.
cat(files) : Sequence
files : File or InChannel Sequence
The cat function concatenates the output from multiple files
and returns it as a string.
grep(pattern) : String # input from stdin, default options
pattern : String
grep(pattern, files) : String # default options
pattern : String
files : File Sequence
grep(options, pattern, files) : String
options : String
pattern : String
files : File Sequence
The grep function searches for occurrences of a regular
expression pattern in a set of files, and prints lines that match.
This is like a highly-simplified version of grep(1).
The options are:
grep is not displayed.
The pattern is a regular expression.
If successful (grep found a match), the function returns true.
Otherwise, it returns false.
scan(input-files)
case string1
body1
case string2
body2
...
default
bodyd
The scan function provides input processing in command-line form.
The function takes file/filename arguments. If called with no
arguments, the input is taken from stdin. If arguments are provided,
each specifies an InChannel, or the name of a file for input.
Output is always to stdout.
The scan function operates by reading the input one line at a time,
and processing it according to the following algorithm.
For each line,
the record is first split into fields, and
the fields are bound to the variables $1, $2, .... The variable
$0 is defined to be the entire line, and $* is an array
of all the field values. The $(NF) variable is defined to be the number
of fields.
Next, a case expression is selected. If string_i matches the token $1,
then body_i is evaluated. If the body ends in an export, the state
is passed to the next clause. Otherwise the value is discarded.
For example, here is an scan function that acts as a simple command processor.
calc() =
i = 0
scan(script.in)
case print
println($i)
case inc
i = $(add $i, 1)
export
case dec
i = $(sub $i, 1)
export
case addconst
i = $(add $i, $2)
export
default
eprintln($"Unknown command: $1")
The scan function also supports several options.
scan(options, files)
...
ls”, “-l”, “Program Files”.ls -l "Program Files"
Note, if you want to redirect the output to a file, the easiest way is to
redefine the stdout variable. The stdout variable is scoped the
same way as other variables, so this definition does not affect the meaning of
stdout outside the calc function.
calc() =
stdout = $(fopen script.out, w)
scan(script.in)
...
close($(stdout))
awk(input-files)
case pattern1:
body1
case pattern2:
body2
...
default:
bodyd
or
awk(options, input-files)
case pattern1:
body1
case pattern2:
body2
...
default:
bodyd
The awk function provides input processing similar to awk(1),
but more limited. The input-files argument is a sequence of values,
each specifies an InChannel, or the name of a file for input.
If called with no options and no file arguments, the input is taken from stdin.
Output is always to stdout.
The variables RS and FS define record and field separators
as regular expressions.
The default value of RS is the regular expression \r|\n|\r\n.
The default value of FS is the regular expression [ \t]+.
The awk function operates by reading the input one record at a time,
and processing it according to the following algorithm.
For each line,
the record is first split into fields using the field separator FS, and
the fields are bound to the variables $1, $2, .... The variable
$0 is defined to be the entire line, and $* is an array
of all the field values. The $(NF) variable is defined to be the number
of fields.
Next, the cases are evaluated in order.
For each case, if the regular expression pattern_i matches the record $0,
then body_i is evaluated. If the body ends in an export, the state
is passed to the next clause. Otherwise the value is discarded. If the regular
expression contains \(r\) expression, those expression override the
fields $1, $2, ....
For example, here is an awk function to print the text between two
delimiters \begin{<name>} and \end{<name>}, where the <name>
must belong to a set passed as an argument to the filter function.
filter(names) =
print = false
awk(Awk.in)
case $"^\\end\{\([[:alpha:]]+\)\}"
if $(mem $1, $(names))
print = false
export
export
default
if $(print)
println($0)
case $"^\\begin\{\([[:alpha:]]+\)\}"
print = $(mem $1, $(names))
export
Note, if you want to redirect the output to a file, the easiest way is to
redefine the stdout variable. The stdout variable is scoped the
same way as other variables, so this definition does not affect the meaning of
stdout outside the filter function.
filter(names) =
stdout = $(fopen file.out, w)
awk(Awk.in)
...
close($(stdout))
Options.
The break function can be used to abort the loop,
exiting the awk function immediately.
fsubst(files)
case pattern1 [options]
body1
case pattern2 [options]
body2
...
default
bodyd
The fsubst function provides a sed(1)-like substitution
function. Similar to awk, if fsubst is called with no
arguments, the input is taken from stdin. If arguments are provided,
each specifies an InChannel, or the name of a file for input.
The RS variable defines a regular expression that determines a record separator,
The default value of RS is the regular expression \r|\n|\r\n.
The fsubst function reads the file one record at a time.
For each record, the cases are evaluated in order. Each case defines
a substitution from a substring matching the pattern to
replacement text defined by the body.
Currently, there is only one option: g.
If specified, each clause specifies a global replacement,
and all instances of the pattern define a substitution.
Otherwise, the substitution is applied only once.
Output can be redirected by redefining the stdout variable.
For example, the following program replaces all occurrences of
an expression word. with its capitalized form.
section
stdout = $(fopen Subst.out, w)
fsubst(Subst.in)
case $"\<\([[:alnum:]]+\)\." g
value $(capitalize $1).
close($(stdout))
lex(files)
case pattern1
body1
case pattern2
body2
...
default
bodyd
The lex function provides a simple lexical-style scanner
function. The input is a sequence of files or channels. The cases
specify regular expressions. Each time the input is read, the regular
expression that matches the longest prefix of the input is selected,
and the body is evaluated.
If two clauses both match the same input, the last one is selected
for execution. The default case matches the regular expression .;
you probably want to place it first in the pattern list.
If the body end with an export directive,
the state is passed to the next clause.
For example, the following program collects all occurrences of alphanumeric words in an input file.
collect-words(files) =
words[] =
lex($(files))
default
# empty
case $"[[:alnum:]]+" g
words[] += $0
export
value $(words)
The default case, if one exists, matches single characters. Since
It is an error if the input does not match any of the regular expressions.
The break function can be used to abort the loop.
lex-search(files)
case pattern1
body1
case pattern2
body2
...
default
bodyd
The lex-search function is like the lex function, but input that
does not match any of the regular expressions is skipped. If the clauses include
a default case, then the default matches any skipped text.
For example, the following program collects all occurrences of alphanumeric words in an input file, skipping any other text.
collect-words($(files)) =
words[] =
lex-search($(files))
default
eprintln(Skipped $0)
case $"[[:alnum:]]+" g
words[] += $0
export
The default case, if one exists, matches single characters. Since
It is an error if the input does not match any of the regular expressions.
The break function can be used to abort the loop.
The Omake_lexer.Lexer object defines a facility for lexical analysis, similar to the
lex(1) and flex(1) programs.
In omake, lexical analyzers can be constructed dynamically by extending
the Omake_lexer.Lexer class. A lexer definition consists of a set of directives specified
with method calls, and set of clauses specified as rules.
For example, consider the following lexer definition, which is intended for lexical analysis of simple arithmetic expressions for a desktop calculator.
lexer1. =
extends $(Omake_lexer.Lexer)
other: .
eprintln(Illegal character: $* )
lex()
white: $"[[:space:]]+"
lex()
op: $"[-+*/()]"
switch $*
case +
Token.unit($(loc), plus)
case -
Token.unit($(loc), minus)
case *
Token.unit($(loc), mul)
case /
Token.unit($(loc), div)
case $"("
Token.unit($(loc), lparen)
case $")"
Token.unit($(loc), rparen)
number: $"[[:digit:]]+"
Token.pair($(loc), exp, $(int $* ))
eof: $"\'"
Token.unit($(loc), eof)
This program defines an object lexer1 the extends the Omake_lexer.Lexer
object, which defines lexing environment.
The remainder of the definition consists of a set of clauses, each with a method name before the colon; a regular expression after the colon; and in this case, a body. The body is optional, if it is not specified, the method with the given name should already exist in the lexer definition.
NB The clause that matches the longest prefix of the input is selected. If two clauses match the same input prefix, then the last one is selected. This is unlike most standard lexers, but makes more sense for extensible grammars.
The first clause matches any input that is not matched by the other clauses. In this case, an error message is printed for any unknown character, and the input is skipped. Note that this clause is selected only if no other clause matches.
The second clause is responsible for ignoring white space. If whitespace is found, it is ignored, and the lexer is called recursively.
The third clause is responsible for the arithmetic operators.
It makes use of the Token object, which defines three
fields: a loc field that represents the source location;
a name; and a value.
The lexer defines the loc variable to be the location
of the current lexeme in each of the method bodies, so we can use
that value to create the tokens.
The Token.unit($(loc), name)
method constructs a new Token object with the given name,
and a default value.
The number clause matches nonnegative integer constants.
The Token.pair($(loc), name, value) constructs a token with the
given name and value.
Omake_lexer.Lexer object operate on InChannel objects.
The method lexer1.lex-channel(channel) reads the next
token from the channel argument.
During lexical analysis, clauses are selected by longest match.
That is, the clause that matches the longest sequence of input
characters is chosen for evaluation. If no clause matches, the
lexer raises a RuntimeException. If more than one clause
matches the same amount of input, the first one is chosen
for evaluation.
Suppose we wish to augment the lexer example so that it ignores
comments. We will define comments as any text that begins with
the string (*, ends with *), and comments may
be nested.
One convenient way to do this is to define a separate lexer just to skip comments.
lex-comment. =
extends $(Omake_lexer.Lexer)
level = 0
other: .
lex()
term: $"[*][)]"
if $(not $(eq $(level), 0))
level = $(sub $(level), 1)
lex()
next: $"[(][*]"
level = $(add $(level), 1)
lex()
eof: $"\'"
eprintln(Unterminated comment)
This lexer contains a field level that keeps track of the nesting
level. On encountering a (* string, it increments the level,
and for *), it decrements the level if nonzero, and continues.
Next, we need to modify our previous lexer to skip comments.
We can do this by extending the lexer object lexer1
that we just created.
lexer1. +=
comment: $"[(][*]"
lex-comment.lex-channel($(channel))
lex()
The body for the comment clause calls the lex-comment lexer when
a comment is encountered, and continues lexing when that lexer returns.
Clause bodies may also end with an export directive. In this case
the lexer object itself is used as the returned token. If used with
the Parser object below, the lexer should define the loc, name
and value fields in each export clause. Each time
the Parser calls the lexer, it calls it with the lexer returned
from the previous lex invocation.
The Parser object provides a facility for syntactic analysis based
on context-free grammars.
Parser objects are specified as a sequence of directives,
specified with method calls; and productions, specified as rules.
For example, let’s finish building the desktop calculator started
in the Lexer example.
parser1. =
extends $(Parser)
#
# Use the main lexer
#
lexer = $(lexer1)
#
# Precedences, in ascending order
#
left(plus minus)
left(mul div)
right(uminus)
#
# A program
#
start(prog)
prog: exp eof
return $1
#
# Simple arithmetic expressions
#
exp: minus exp :prec: uminus
neg($2)
exp: exp plus exp
add($1, $3)
exp: exp minus exp
sub($1, $3)
exp: exp mul exp
mul($1, $3)
exp: exp div exp
div($1, $3)
exp: lparen exp rparen
return $2
Parsers are defined as extensions of the Parser class.
A Parser object must have a lexer field. The lexer
is not required to be a Lexer object, but it must provide
a lexer.lex() method that returns a token object with
name and value fields. For this example, we use the
lexer1 object that we defined previously.
The next step is to define precedences for the terminal symbols.
The precedences are defined with the left, right,
and nonassoc methods in order of increasing precedence.
The grammar must have at least one start symbol, declared with
the start method.
Next, the productions in the grammar are listed as rules. The name of the production is listed before the colon, and a sequence of variables is listed to the right of the colon. The body is a semantic action to be evaluated when the production is recognized as part of the input.
In this example, these are the productions for the arithmetic
expressions recognized by the desktop calculator. The semantic
action performs the calculation. The variables $1, $2, ...
correspond to the values associated with each of the variables
on the right-hand-side of the production.
The parser is called with the $(parser1.parse-channel start, channel)
or $(parser1.parse-file start, file) functions. The start
argument is the start symbol, and the channel or file
is the input to the parser.
The parser generator generates a pushdown automation based on LALR(1) tables. As usual, if the grammar is ambiguous, this may generate shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts. These conflicts are printed to standard output when the automaton is generated.
By default, the automaton is not constructed until the parser is first used.
The build(debug) method forces the construction of the automaton.
While not required, it is wise to finish each complete parser with
a call to the build(debug) method. If the debug variable
is set, this also prints with parser table together with any conflicts.
The loc variable is defined within action bodies, and represents
the input range for all tokens on the right-hand-side of the production.
Parsers may also be extended by inheritance.
For example, let’s extend the grammar so that it also recognizes
the << and >> shift operations.
First, we extend the lexer so that it recognizes these tokens.
This time, we choose to leave lexer1 intact, instead of
using the += operator.
lexer2. =
extends $(lexer1)
lsl: $"<<"
Token.unit($(loc), lsl)
asr: $">>"
Token.unit($(loc), asr)
Next, we extend the parser to handle these new operators.
We intend that the bitwise operators have lower precedence
than the other arithmetic operators. The two-argument form
of the left method accomplishes this.
parser2. =
extends $(parser1)
left(plus, lsl lsr asr)
lexer = $(lexer2)
exp: exp lsl exp
lsl($1, $3)
exp: exp asr exp
asr($1, $3)
In this case, we use the new lexer lexer2, and we add productions
for the new shift operations.
The Passwd object represents an entry in the system’s user database.
It contains the following fields.
pw_name: the login name.
pw_passwd: the encrypted password.
pw_uid: user id of the user.
pw_gid: group id of the user.
pw_gecos: the user name or comment field.
pw_dir: the user’s home directory.
pw_shell: the user’s default shell.
Not all the fields will have meaning on all operating systems.
$(getpwnam name...) : Passwd
name : String
$(getpwuid uid...) : Passwd
uid : Int
raises RuntimeException
The getpwnam function looks up an entry by the user’s login and the getpwuid
function looks up an entry by user’s numerical id (uid). If no entry is found, an exception
will be raised.
$(getpwents) : Array
The getpwents function returns an array of Passwd objects, one for every user
fund in the system user database. Note that depending on the operating system and on the setup
of the user database, the returned array may be incomplete or even empty.
The Group object represents an entry in the system’s user group database.
It contains the following fields.
gr_name: the group name.
gr_group: the encrypted password.
gr_gid: group id of the group.
gr_mem: the group member’s user names.
Not all the fields will have meaning on all operating systems.
$(getgrnam name...) : Group
name : String
$(getgrgid gid...) : Group
gid : Int
raises RuntimeException
The getgrnam function looks up a group entry by the group’s name and the getgrgid
function looks up an entry by groups’s numerical id (gid). If no entry is found, an exception
will be raised.
$(tgetstr id) : String
id : String
The tgetstr function looks up the terminal capability with the indicated id.
This assumes the terminfo to lookup is given in the TERM environment variable. This
function returns an empty value if the given terminal capability is not defined.
Note: if you intend to use the value returned by tgetstr inside the shell
prompt, you need to wrap it using the prompt-invisible function.
$(xterm-escape-begin) : String $(xterm-escape-end) : String
The xterm-escape-begin and xterm-escape-end functions return the escape sequences
that can be used to set the XTerm window title. Will return empty values if this capability is
not available.
Note: if you intend to use these strings inside the shell prompt, you need to use
$(prompt_invisible_begin)$(xterm-escape-begin) and
$(xterm-escape-end)$(prompt_invisible_end).
$(xterm-escape s) : Sequence
When the TERM environment variable indicates that the XTerm title setting capability is available,
$(xterm-escape s) is equivalent to $(xterm-escape-begin)s$(xterm-escape-end). Otherwise, it
returns an empty value.
Note: if you intend to use the value returned by xterm-escape inside the shell
prompt, you need to wrap it using the prompt-invisible function.
$(prompt-invisible-begin) : String $(prompt-invisible-end) : String
The prompt-invisible-begin and prompt-invisible-end functions return the escape sequences
that must used to mark the “invisible” sections of the shell prompt (such as various escape sequences).
$(prompt-invisible s) : Sequence
The prompt-invisible will wrap its argument with $(prompt-invisible-begin) and
$(prompt-invisible-end). All the ‘invisible” sections of the shell prompt (such as various
escape sequences) must be wrapped this way.
$(gettimeofday) : Float
The gettimeofday function returns the time of day in seconds
since January 1, 1970.
The Tm object is a structure that represents the time and date.
tm_sec : Int Seconds (0–59).
tm_min : Int Minutes (0–59).
tm_hour : Int Hours (0–23).
tm_mday : Int Day of the month (0–31).
tm_mon : Int Month (0–11).
tm_year : Int Year (minus 1900).
tm_wday : Int Day of the week (0–6, Sunday is 0).
tm_yday : Int Day of the year (0–365).
tm_isdst : Bool True iff daylight savings time is in effect.
$(gmtime time) : tm
$(localtime time) : tm
time : Float
Convert the time in seconds since the Unix epoch to calendar format.
The function gmtime assumes UTC (Coordinated Universal Time);
the function localtime uses the local time zone.
$(mktime tm) : Float
$(normalize-time tm) : Tm
tm : Tm
Convert the calendar time to time in seconds since the Unix epoch. Assumes the local time zone.
The fields tm_wday, tm_mday, tm_yday are ignored.
The other components are not restricted to their normal ranges and will be
normalized as needed.
The function normalize-time normalizes the
calendar time. The returned object contains an additional field
tm_time : Float that represnets the time in seconds since the Unix epoch
(the same value returned by mktime).
Shell commands (commands to be executed by the operating system) can be freely mixed with other code.
NOTE: the syntax and shell usage is identical on all platforms, including Win32. To avoid
portability problems on Win32, it is recommended that you avoid the use of the native shell
interpreter cmd.
LIB = $(dir lib)
println(The contents of the $(LIB) directory is:)
ls $(LIB)
The syntax of shell commands is similar to the syntax used by the Unix shell bash. In
general, a command is a pipeline. A basic command is part of a pipeline. It is specified
with the name of an executable and some arguments. Here are some examples.
ls
ls -AF .
echo Hello world
The command is found using the current search path in the variable PATH[], which should
define an array of directories containing executables.
A command may also be prefixed by environment variable definitions.
# Prints "Hello world"
env X="Hello world" Y=2 printenv X
# Pass the include path to the Visual C++
env include="c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\include" cl foo.cpp
Commands may contain wildcard patterns. A pattern specifies a set of files through a limited kind of regular expression. Patterns are expanded before the function is executed.
# List all files with a .c suffix
ls *.c
# List all files with a single character prefix, and .c suffix
ls ?.c
# Rename the file hello.ml to foo.ml
mv {hello,foo}.ml
A comprehensive description of OMake glob patterns is given in Section 10.4.
The command may also be placed in the background by placing an ampersand after the command. Control returns to the shell without waiting for the job to complete. The job continues to run in the background.
gcc -o hugeprogram *.c &
Input and output can be redirected to files by using the <, >, and >&
directives after the command.
# Write to the "foo" file
echo Hello world > foo
# Redirect input from the foo file
cat < foo
# Redirect standard output and errors to the foo file
gcc -o boo *.c >& foo
Pipelines are sequences of commands, where the output from each command is sent to the next.
Pipelines are defined with the | and |& syntax. With | the output is
redirected, but errors are not. With |& both output and errors are redirected.
# Send the output of the ls command to the printer ls *.c | lpr # Send output and errors to jyh as email gcc -o hugefile *.c |& mail jyh
Commands may also be composed though conditional evaluation using the || and &&
syntax. Every command has an integer exit code, which may be zero or some other integer. A command
is said to succeed if its exit code is zero. The expression command1 && command2
executes command2 only if command1 succeeds. The expression
command1 || command2 executes command2 only if command1 fails.
# Display the x/y file if possible cd x && cat y # Run foo.exe, or print an error message (test -x foo.exe && foo.exe) || echo "foo.exe is not executable"
Parenthesis are used for grouping in a pipeline or conditional command. In the following
expression, the test function is used to test whether the foo.exe file is executable.
If it is, the foo.exe file is executed. If the file is not executable (or if the
foo.exe command fails), the message "foo.exe is not executable" is printed.
# Run foo.exe, or print an error message (test -x foo.exe && foo.exe) || echo "foo.exe is not executable"
Syntactially, shell commands are any line that is not one of the following:
VAR=string
f(...) or method call o.f(...)
string: ...
if ...
switch ...
match ...
section ...
return ...
Commands may also be builtin (aliases). See the documentation for the
Shell object for more information.
The echo function prints a string.
$(echo <args>) echo <args>
The cd function changes the current directory.
cd(dir)
dir : Dir
The cd function also supports a 2-argument form:
$(cd dir, e)
dir : Dir
e : expression
In the two-argument form, expression e is evaluated
in the directory dir. The current directory is not
changed otherwise.
The behavior of the cd function can be changed with the
CDPATH variable, which specifies a search path for
directories. This is normally useful only in the osh
command interpreter.
CDPATH : Dir Sequence
For example, the following will change directory to the first
directory ./foo, ~/dir1/foo, ~/dir2/foo.
CDPATH[] =
.
$(HOME)/dir1
$(HOME)/dir2
cd foo
The jobs function prints a list of jobs.
jobs
The bg function places a job in the background.
bg <pid...>
The fg function brings a job to the foreground.
fg <pid...>
The stop function suspends a job.
stop <pid...>
The wait function waits for a job to finish.
If no process identifiers are given, the shell waits for
all jobs to complete.
wait <pid...>
The kill function signals a job.
kill [signal] <pid...>
$(history-index) : Int
$(history) : String Sequence
history-file : File
history-length : Int
The history variables manage the command-line history in osh. They have no effect in omake.
The history-index variable is the current index into the command-line history.
The history variable is the current command-line history.
The history-file variable can be redefined if you want the command-line history
to be saved. The default value is ~/.omake/osh_history.
The history-length variable can be redefined to specify the maximum number of
lines in the history that you want saved. The default value is 100.
Pervasives defines the objects that are defined in all
programs. The following objects are defined.
Parent objects: none.
The Object object is the root object.
Every class is a subclass of Object.
It provides the following fields:
$(o.object-length): the number of fields and methods in the object.
$(o.object-mem <var>): returns true iff the <var> is a field
or method of the object.
$(o.object-add <var>, <value>): adds the field to the object,
returning a new object.
$(o.object-find <var>): fetches the field or method from the object;
it is equivalent to $(o.<var>), but the variable can be non-constant.
$(o.object-map <fun>): maps a function over the object. The function
should take two arguments; the first is a field name, the second is the
value of that field. The result is a new object constructed from the
values returned by the function.
o.object-foreach: the object-foreach form is equivalent to object-map,
but with altered syntax. o.object-foreach(<var1>, <var2>) =>
<body>
For example, the following function prints all the fields of an
object o.
PrintObject(o) =
o.object-foreach(v, x) =>
println($(v) = $(x))
The export form is valid in a object-foreach body. The following
function collects just the field names of an object.
FieldNames(o) =
names[] =
o.object-foreach(v, x) =>
names[] += $(v)
export
return $(names)
Parent objects: Object.
A Map object is a dictionary from values to values. The <key>
values are restricted to simple values: integers, floating-point numbers,
strings, files, directories, and arrays of simple values.
The Map object provides the following methods.
$(o.length): the number of items in the map.
$(o.mem <key>): returns true iff the <key> is defined
in the map.
$(o.add <key>, <value>): adds the field to the map,
returning a new map.
$(o.find <key>): fetches the field from the map.
$(o.keys): fetches an array of all the keys in the map, in alphabetical order.
$(o.values): fetches an array of all the values in the map,
in the alphabetical order of the corresponding keys.
$(o.map <fun>): maps a function over the map. The function
should take two arguments; the first is a field name, the second is the
value of that field. The result is a new object constructed from the
values returned by the function.
o.foreach: the foreach form is equivalent to map,
but with altered syntax. o.foreach(<var1>, <var2>) =>
<body>
For example, the following function prints all the fields of a
map o.
PrintMap(o) =
o.foreach(v, x) =>
println($(v) = $(x))
The export form is valid in a foreach body. The following
function reimplements the key method.
FieldNames(o) =
names =
o.foreach(v, x) =>
names += $(v)
export
return $(names)
There is also simpler syntax when the key is a string. The table can be
defined using definitions with the form $|key|
(the number of pipe symbols | is allowed to vary).
$|key 1| = value1
$||key1|key2|| = value2 # The key is key1|key2
X = $|key 1| # Define X to be the value of field $|key 1|
The usual modifiers are also allowed. The expression $`|key| represents
lazy evaluation of the key, and $,|key| is normal evaluation.
Parent objects: Object.
The Number object is the parent object for integers
and floating-point numbers.
Parent objects: Number.
The Int object represents integer values.
Parent objects: Number.
The Float object represents floating-point numbers.
Parent objects: Object.
The Sequence object represents a generic object containing
sequential elements. It provides the following methods.
$(s.length): the number of elements in the sequence.
$(s.is-nonempty): true iff the expression $(s.nth 0)
will complete without failure.
$(s.nth <i>): return the n’th element of the sequence.
$(s.nth-tl <i>): return the n’th tail of the sequence.
$(s.map <fun>): maps a function over the fields in the sequence.
The function should take one argument. The result is a new sequence
constructed from the values returned by the function.
s.foreach: the foreach form is equivalent to map,
but with altered syntax. s.foreach(<var>) =>
<body>
For example, the following function prints all the elements of the sequence.
PrintSequence(s) =
s.foreach(x) =>
println(Elem = $(x))
The export form is valid in a foreach body. The following
function counts the number of zeros in the sequence.
Zeros(s) =
count = $(int 0)
s.foreach(v) =>
if $(equal $(v), 0)
count = $(add $(count), 1)
export
export
return $(count)
$(s.forall <fun>): tests whether each element of the sequence
satifies a predicate.
$(s.exists <fun>): tests whether the sequence contains an element
that satisfies a predicate.
$(s.sort <fun>): sorts a sequence. The <fun> is a comparison
function. It takes two elements (x, y) of the sequence, compares them, and returns
a negative number if x < y, a positive number if x > y, and zero if the two elements
are equal.osh> items = $(int 0 3 -2) osh> items.forall(x => $(gt $x, 0)) - : bool = false osh> items.exists(x => $(gt $x, 0)) - : bool = true osh> items.sort($(compare)) - : Array = -2 3 0
Parent objects: Sequence.
The Array is a random-access sequence.
It provides the following additional methods.
$(s.nth <i>): returns element i of the sequence.
$(s.rev <i>): returns the reversed sequence.
Parent objects: Array.
Parent objects: Object.
The Fun object provides the following methods.
$(f.arity): the arity if the function.
Parent objects: Object.
The Rule object represents a build rule.
It does not currently have any methods.
Parent object: Object.
The Target object contains information collected for
a specific target file.
target: the target file.
effects: the files that may be modified by a
side-effect when this target is built.
scanner_deps: static dependencies that must be built
before this target can be scanned.
static-deps: statically-defined build dependencies
of this target.
build-deps: all the build dependencies for the target,
including static and scanned dependencies.
build-values: all the value dependencies associated
with the build.
build-commands: the commands to build the target.
output-file: if output was diverted to a file,
with one of the --output-* options A,
this field names that file. Otherwise it is false.
The object supports the following methods.
find(file): returns a Target object for the given file.
Raises a RuntimeException if the specified target is
not part of the project.
find-optional(file): returns a Target object
for the given file, or false if the file is not
part of the project.
NOTE: the information for a target is constructed dynamically,
so it is possible that the Target object for a node will
contain different values in different contexts. The easiest way
to make sure that the Target information is complete is
to compute it within a rule body, where the rule depends on
the target file, or the dependencies of the target file.
Parent objects: Object.
The Node object is the parent object for files and directories.
It supports the following operations.
$(node.stat): returns a stat object for the file. If the
file is a symbolic link, the stat information is for the destination of
the link, not the link itself.$(node.lstat): returns a stat object for the file or symbolic link.
$(node.unlink): removes the file.
$(node.rename <file>): renames the file.
$(node.link <file>): creates a hard link <dst> to this file.
$(node.symlink <file>): create a symbolic link <dst> to this file.
$(node.chmod <perm>): change the permission of this file.
$(node.chown <uid>, <gid>): change the owner and group id of this file.
Parent objects: Node.
The file object represents the name of a file.
Parent objects: Node.
The Dir object represents the name of a directory.
Parent objects: Object.
A Channel is a generic IO channel.
It provides the following methods.
$(o.close): close the channel.
$(o.name): returns the file name associated with the channel.
Parent objects: Channel.
A InChannel is an input channel. The variable stdin is the
standard input channel.
It provides the following methods.
$(InChannel.fopen <file>): open a new input channel.
$(InChannel.of-string <string>): open a new input channel,
using a string as input.
$(o.read <number>): reads the given number of characters from the channel
$(o.readln): reads a line from the channel
Parent object: Channel.
A OutChannel is an output channel. The variables stdout
and stderr are the standard output and error channels.
It provides the following methods.
$(OutChannel.fopen <file>): open a new output channel.
$(OutChannel.string): open a new output channel,
writing to a string.
$(OutChannel.to-string): get the current string of
output, for an output channel created as OutChannel.open-string.
$(OutChannel.append <file>): opens a new output channel,
appending to the file.
$(c.flush): flush the output channel.
$(c.print <string>): print a string to the channel.
$(c.println <string>): print a string to the channel,
followed by a line terminator.
Parent objects: Location.
The Location object represents a location in a file.
Parent objects: Object.
The Exception object is used as the base object for exceptions.
It has no fields.
Parent objects: Exception.
The RuntimeException object represents an exception from the
runtime system. It has the following fields.
position: a string representing the location where the
exception was raised.
message: a string containing the exception message.
Parent objects: Exception.
The UnbuildableException object should be used to signal that a target
is not buildable. It will be caught by functions such as
target-exists.
This exception has the following fields:
target: indicates which target is not buildable.
message: a string containing the exception message.
Parent objects: Object.
The Shell object contains the collection of builtin functions
available as shell commands.
You can define aliases by extending this object with additional methods. All methods in this class are called with one argument: a single array containing an argument list.
echoThe echo function prints its arguments to the standard output channel.
jobsThe jobs method prints the status of currently running commands.
cdThe cd function changes the current directory.
Note that the current directory follows the usual scoping
rules. For example, the following program lists the
files in the foo directory, but the current
directory is not changed.
section
echo Listing files in the foo directory...
cd foo
ls
echo Listing files in the current directory...
ls
bgThe bg method places a job in the background.
The job is resumed if it has been suspended.
fgThe fg method brings a job to the foreground.
The job is resumed if it has been suspended.
stopThe stop method suspends a running job.
waitThe wait function waits for a running job to terminate.
It is not possible to wait for a suspended job.
The job is not brought to the foreground. If the wait
is interrupted, the job continues to run in the background.
killThe kill function signal a job.
kill [signal] <pid...>.
The signals are either numeric, or symbolic. The symbolic signals are named as follows.
ABRT, ALRM, HUP, ILL, KILL, QUIT, SEGV, TERM, USR1, USR2, CHLD, STOP, TSTP, TTIN, TTOU, VTALRM, PROF.
exitThe exit function terminates the current session.
which, whereSee the documentation for the corresponding functions.
rehashReset the search path.
ln-or-cp src dstLinks or copies src to dst, overwriting dst. Namely, ln-or-cp would first
delete the dst file (unless it is a directory), if it exists. Next it would try to create
a symbolic link dst poiting to src (it will make all the necessary adjustmnents of
relative paths). If symbolic link can not be created (e.g. the OS or the filesystem does
not support symbolic links), it will try to create a hard link. If that fails too, it will try
to forcibly copy src to dst.
historyPrint the current command-line history.
digestPrint the digests of the given files.
Win32 doesn’t provide very many programs for scripting, except
for the functions that are builtin to the DOS cmd.exe.
The following functions are defined on Win32 and only on Win32.
On other systems, it is expected that these programs already
exist.
grepgrep [-q] [-n] [-v] [-h] pattern files...
The grep alias calls the omake’s internal grep function.
By default, omake uses internal versions of the following commands:
cp, mv, cat, rm, mkdir, chmod,
test, find.
If you really want to use the standard system versions of these
commands, set the USE_SYSTEM_COMMANDS as one of the first
definitions in your OMakeroot file.
pwdpwd
The pwd alias would print the absolute path to current directory.
mkdirmkdir [-m <mode>] [-p] files
The mkdir function is used to create directories.
The -verb+-m+ option can be used to specify the permission
mode of the created directory. If the -p option
is specified, the full path is created.
cp, mv cp [-f] [-i] [-v] src dst
cp [-f] [-i] [-v] files dst
mv [-f] [-i] [-v] src dst
mv [-f] [-i] [-v] files dst
The cp function copies a src file to
a dst file, overwriting it if it already exists.
If more than one source file is specified, the final file
must be a directory, and the source files are copied
into the directory.
rmrm [-f] [-i] [-v] [-r] files rmdir [-f] [-i] [-v] [-r] dirs
The rm function removes a set of files.
No warnings are issued if the files do not exist, or if
they cannot be removed.
Options:
chmodchmod [-r] [-v] [-f] mode files
The chmod function changes the permissions on a set of
files or directories. This function does nothing on Win32.
The mode may be specified as an octal number,
or in symbolic form [ugoa]*[-=][rwxXstugo]+.
See the man page for chmod for details.
Options:
catcat files...
The cat function prints the contents of the files to stdout
testtest expression
[ expression +]+
[ --help
[ --version
See the documentation for the test function.
findfind expression
See the documentation for the find function.
The complete set of builtin .PHONY targets include the following.
The .BUILD targets can be used to specify commands to be executed at
the beginning and end of the build. The .BUILD_BEGIN target is built
at the beginning of a project build, and one of .BUILD_FAILURE or
.BUILD_SUCCESS is executed when the build terminates.
For example, the following set of rules simply print additional messages about the status of the build.
.BUILD_BEGIN:
echo Build starting
.BUILD_SUCCESS:
echo The build was successful
.BUILD_FAILURE:
println($"The build failed: $(length $(find-build-targets Failed)) targets could not be built")
Another common use is to define notifications to be performed when
the build completes. For example, the following rule will create
a new X terminal displaying the summary of the build
(using the BUILD_SUMMARY variable).
.BUILD_FAILURE:
xterm -e vi $(BUILD_SUMMARY)
If you do not wish to add these rules directly to your project (which
is probably a good idea if you work with others), you can
define them in your .omakerc (see Section A.8).
The find-build-targets function
is useful for obtaining a firther summary of the build. Note that
when output diversions are in effect (with the --output-* options — see Chapter A),
any output produced by the commands is copied to a file. The name of the
file is specified by the output-file field of the Target object.
You may find this useful in defining custom build summaries.
OMakeFlags(options)
options : String
The OMakeFlags function is used to set omake options from
within OMakefiles. The options have exactly the same format as
options on the command line.
For example, the following code displays the progress bar unless
the VERBOSE environment variable is defined.
if $(not $(defined-env VERBOSE))
OMakeFlags(-S --progress)
export
OMakeVersion(version1)
OMakeVersion(version1, version2)
version1, version2 : String
The OMakeVersion function is used for version checking
in OMakefiles. It takes one or two arguments.
In the one argument form, if the omake version number
is less than <version1>,
then an exception is raised. In the two argument form,
the version must lie between version1 and version2.
$(cmp-versions version1, version2)
version1, version2 : String
The cmp-versions\ functions can be used to compare arbitrary version strings.
It returns 0 when the two version strings are equal, a negative number when the first
string represents an earlier version, and a positive number otherwise.
DefineCommandVars()
The DefineCommandVars function redefines the variables passed on
the commandline. Variables definitions are passed on the command line
in the form name=value. This function is primarily for internal
use by omake to define these variables for the first time.
$(dependencies targets) : File Array
$(dependencies-all targets) : File Array
$(dependencies-proper targets) : File Array
targets : File Array
raises RuntimeException
The dependencies function returns the set of immediate dependencies of
the given targets. This function can only be used within a rule body and
all the arguments to the dependency function must also be dependencies of
this rule. This restriction ensures that all the dependencies are known when
this function is executed.
The dependencies-all function is similar, but it expands the dependencies
recursively, returning all of the dependencies of a target, not just the immediate
ones.
The dependencies-proper function returns all recursive dependencies, except
the dependencies that are leaf targets. A leaf target is a target that has no
dependencies and no build commands; a leaf target corresponds to a source file
in the current project.
In all three functions, files that are not part of the current project are silently discarded. All three functions will return phony and scanner targets along with the “real” ones.
One purpose of the dependencies-proper function is for “clean” targets.
For example, one way to delete all intermediate files in a build is with a rule
that uses the dependencies-proper. Note however, that the rule requires
building the project before it can be deleted.
.PHONY: clean
APP = ... # the name of the target application
clean: $(APP)
rm -f $(dependencies-proper $(APP))
Also note that the dependencies-proper function will return the phony and scanner
targets in addition to real one.
For other (possibly better) alternatives, see Section 10.3.3 and
filter-proper-targets function.
$(target targets) : Target Array
targets : File Sequence
raises RuntimeException
The target function returns the Target object associated with each
of the targets. See the Target object for more information.
$(find-build-targets tag) : Target Array
tag : Succeeded | Failed
The find-build-targets allow the results
of the build to be examined. The tag must
specifies which targets are to be returned; the comparison
is case-insensitive.
These are used mainly in conjuction with the
.BUILD_SUCCESS (Section 13.1) and
.BUILD_FAILURE (Section 13.1) phony targets.
For example, adding the following to your project OMakefile
will print the number of targets that failed (if the build failed).
.BUILD_FAILURE:
echo "Failed target count: $(length $(find-build-targets Failed))"
$(project-directories) : Dir Array
The project-directories function returns the list of all directories
that are considered to be part of the project.
To get the complete directory list, this function should be called from within a rule body.
The rule function is called whenever a build rule is defined.
It is unlikely that you will need to redefine this function, except in
very exceptional cases.
rule(multiple, target, pattern, sources, options, body) : Rule
multiple : String
target : Sequence
pattern : Sequence
sources : Sequence
options : Array
body : Body
The rule function is called when a rule is evaluated.
::.
Map object associating each specified option with
a value.
Consider the following rule.
target: pattern: sources :name1: option1 :name2: option2
expr1
expr2
This expression represents the following function call, where
square brackets are used to indicate arrays, and the curly
brackets represent a Map object.
rule(false, target, pattern, sources,
{ $|:name1:| = option1; $|:name2:| = option2 }
[expr1; expr2])
build(targets : File Array) : bool
Build the given targets. The value is true iff the build was successful.
This function can be used only in osh.
The standard OMakeroot file defines the functions are rules for building standard projects.
The root directory of the current project.
The current working directory (the directory is set for each OMakefile in the project).
The name of the standard installed OMakeroot file.
If set to true, the construction of a target should be aborted whenever one of the commands to build it fail. This defaults to true, and should normally be left that way.
This variable should be defined as one of four values
(defaults to enabled).
.SCANNER rules. Whenever a rule does
not specify a :scanner: dependency explicitly, try to find a
.SCANNER with the same target name.
.SCANNER rules.
.SCANNER rules, but print a warning
whenever one is selected.
.SCANNER rules. If a rule
does not specify a :scanner: dependency, and there is a default
.SCANNER rule, the build will terminate abnormally.
The command to install a program (install on Unix, cp on Win32).
The normal path separator (: on Unix, ; on Win32).
The normal directory separator (/ on Unix, \ on Win32).
File suffix for an object file (default is .o on Unix, and .obj on Win32).
File suffix for a static library (default is .a on Unix, and .lib on Win32).
File suffix for a shared library (default is .so on Unix, and .dll on Win32).
File suffix for an assembly file (default is .s on Unix, and .asm on Win32).
File suffix for executables (default is empty for Unix, and .exe on Win32 and Cygwin).
OMake provides extensive support for building C and C++ programs. In order to use the functions defined in this section, you need to make sure the line
open build/C
is present in your OMakeroot file.
These variables will get defined based on the “autoconf-style” static. tests executed
when you run OMake for the first time. You can use them to configure your project accordingly,
and you should not redefine them.
You can use the --configure command line option (Section A.3.9) to force
re-execution of all the tests.
A different set of autoconfiguration tests is performed depending on the build environment
involved — one set of tests would be performed in a Win32 environment, and another —
in a Unix-like environment (including Linux, OS X and Cygwin).
A boolean flag specifying whether the gcc binary was found in your path.
A boolean flag specifying whether the g++ binary was found in your path.
A boolean flag specifying whether the cl binary was found in your path.
A boolean flag specifying whether the lib binary was found in your path.
The following variables can be redefined in your project.
The name of the C compiler (on Unix it defaults to gcc when gcc is present and
to cc otherwise; on Win32 defaults to cl /nologo).
The name of the C++ compiler (on Unix it defaults to gcc when gcc is present
and to c++ otherwise; on Win32 defaults to cl /nologo).
The name of the C preprocessor (defaults to cpp on Unix, and cl /E on Win32).
Compilation flags to pass to the C compiler (default empty on Unix, and /DWIN32
on Win32).
Compilation flags to pass to the C++ compiler (default empty on Unix, and /DWIN32
on Win32).
Additional directories that specify the search path to the C and C++ compilers (default is .).
The directories are passed to the C and C++ compilers with the -I option.
The include path with -I prefixes is defined in the PREFIXED_INCLUDES variable.
Additional libraries needed when building a program (default is empty).
The option to use for specifying the output file in C and C++ compilers
(defaults to -o on Unix and /Fo on Win32).
The name of the assembler (defaults to as on Unix, and ml on Win32).
Flags to pass to the assembler (default is empty on Unix, and /c /coff
on Win32).
The option string that specifies the output file for AS (defaults to -o
on Unix and /Fo on Win32).
The name of the program to create static libraries (defaults to ar cq on Unix,
and lib on Win32).
The name of the linker (defaults to ld on Unix, and cl on Win32).
Options to pass to the linker (default is empty).
Options to pass to the linker when compiling a shared library (defaults to -shared on Unix and /DLL on Win32).
The option to use for specifying the output file in C and C++ linkers
(defaults to -o on Unix and /Fe on Win32).
The name of the yacc parser generator (default is yacc on Unix, empty on Win32).
The name of the lex lexer generator (default is lex on Unix, empty on Win32).
Because the C scanners do not normally know anything about generated source files (such as generated header files), these files may need to be created before running the scanner.
CGeneratedFiles(files) LocalCGeneratedFiles(files)
The CGeneratedFiles and LocalCGeneratedFiles functions specify files
that need to be generated before any C files are scanned for dependencies. For example,
if config.h and inputs.h are both generated files, specify:
CGeneratedFiles(config.h inputs.h)
The CGeneratedFiles function is global — its arguments will be generated
before any C files anywhere in the project are scanned for dependencies. The
LocalCGeneratedFiles function follows the normal scoping rules of OMake.
The StaticCLibrary builds a static library and the DynamicCLibrary
function builds a shared library (DLL).
StaticCLibrary(<target>, <files>) DynamicCLibrary(<target>, <files>)
The <target> does not include the library suffix, and
The <files> list does not include the object suffix. These
are obtained from the EXT_LIB (EXT_DLL)
and EXT_OBJ variables.
This function returns the library filename.
The following command builds the library libfoo.a from the
files a.o b.o c.o on Unix, or the library
libfoo.lib from the files a.obj b.obj c.obj
on Win32.
StaticCLibrary(libfoo, a b c) .DEFAULT: $(StaticCLibrary libbar, a b c d)
If the CDLL_IMPLIES_STATIC
variable is enabled (this is default on Win32), all the DynamicC functions
would assume that creating a shared library automatically created a static one.
The StaticCLibraryCopy and DynamicCLibraryCopy functions copy a library
to an install location.
StaticCLibraryCopy(<tag>, <dir>, <lib>) DynamicCLibraryCopy(<tag>, <dir>, <lib>)
The <tag> is the name of a target (typically a .PHONY target);
the <dir> is the installation directory, and <lib> is
the library to be copied (without the library suffix).
This function returns the filename of the library in the target directory.
For example, the following code copies the library
libfoo.a to the /usr/lib directory.
.PHONY: install StaticCLibraryCopy(install, /usr/lib, libfoo)
The StaticCLibraryInstall and DynamicCLibraryInstall functions build a library, and
set the install location in one step. Return the filename of the library
in the target directory.
StaticCLibraryInstall(<tag>, <dir>, <libname>, <files>) DynamicCLibraryInstall(<tag>, <dir>, <libname>, <files>)
StaticCLibraryInstall(install, /usr/lib, libfoo, a b c)
These functions mirror the StaticCLibrary, StaticCLibraryCopy,
and StaticCLibraryInstall functions, but they build an object
file (a .o file on Unix, and a .obj file on Win32).
The CProgram function builds a C program from a set
of object files and libraries.
CProgram(<name>, <files>)
The <name> argument specifies the name of the program to be built;
the <files> argument specifies the files to be linked. The function
returns the filename of the executable.
Additional options can be passed through the following variables.
For example, the following code specifies that the program
foo is to be produced by linking the files bar.o
and baz.o and libraries libfoo.a.
section LIBS = libfoo LDFLAGS += -lbar CProgram(foo, bar baz)
The CProgramCopy function copies a file to an install location.
CProgramCopy(<tag>, <dir>, <program>)
CProgramCopy(install, /usr/bin, foo)
The CProgramInstall function specifies a program to build,
and a location to install, simultaneously.
CProgramInstall(<tag>, <dir>, <name>, <files>)
section LIBS = libfoo LDFLAGS += -lbar CProgramInstall(install, /usr/bin, foo, bar baz)
The CXXProgram and CXXProgramInstall functions are
equivalent to their C counterparts, except that would use $(CXX) and $(CXXFLAGS)
for linking instead of $(CC) and $(CFLAGS).
Similarly, the six CXXLibrary functions the C++ equivalents of the corresponding
CLibrary functions.
OMake provides extensive support for building OCaml code, including support for tools like
ocamlfind, ocamlyacc and menhir. In order to use the functions
defined in this section, you need to make sure the line
open build/OCaml
is present in your OMakeroot file.
These variables will get defined based on the “autoconf-style” tests executed when you run OMake for the first time. You can use them to configure your project accordingly, and you should not redefine them.
You can use the --configure command line option (Section A.3.9) to force
re-execution of all the tests.
True when ocamlopt (or ocamlopt.opt) is
available on your machine.
True when the ocamlfind is available on your machines.
True when a version of
ocamldep that understands the -modules option is available on your machine.
True if "ocamlopt -shared" is supported by the compiler.
True when the Menhir parser-generator is available on your machine.
The location of OCaml library directory (output of ocamlc -where). Empty when no
ocamlc is found.
The following variables can be redefined in your project.
Whether to use the ocamlfind utility (default false)
The OCaml bytecode compiler (default ocamlc.opt if it exists
and USE_OCAMLFIND is not set, otherwise ocamlc).
The OCaml native-code compiler (default ocamlopt.opt if it
exists and USE_OCAMLFIND is not set, otherwise ocamlopt).
The camlp4 preprocessor (default camlp4).
The OCaml lexer generator (default ocamllex).
The flags to pass to ocamllex (default -q).
The OCaml parser generator (default ocamlyacc).
Additional options to pass to $(OCAMLYACC).
The OCaml dependency analyzer (default ocamldep).
Instead of using OCAMLDEP
in a traditional make-style fashion, run $(OCAMLDEP) -modules and then
postprocess the output internally to discover all the relevant generated .ml and
.mli files. See Section 13.6.5 for more information on
interactions between OMake, OCAMLDEP and generated files. Set to
$(OCAMLDEP_MODULES_AVAILABLE) by default.
The OCaml toploop compiler (default ocamlmktop).
The OCaml bytecode linker (default $(OCAMLC)).
The OCaml native-code linker (default $(OCAMLOPT)).
Search path to pass to the OCaml compilers (default .).
The search path with the -I prefix is defined by the PREFIXED_OCAMLINCLUDES
variable.
Extra path for searching files corresponding to dependencies returned by "ocamldep -modules". This defaults to ".". There is normally no reason to change this value.
The ocamlfind utility (default ocamlfind if
USE_OCAMLFIND is set, otherwise empty).
The flags to pass to ocamlfind (default empty, USE_OCAMLFIND must be set).
Package names to pass to ocamlfind (USE_OCAMLFIND must be set).
Flag indicating whether to use the bytecode compiler (default true, when no ocamlopt found, false otherwise).
Flag indicating whether to use the native-code compiler (default true, when ocamlopt is found, false otherwise).
Both BYTE_ENABLED and NATIVE_ENABLED can be set to true;
at least one should be set to true.
Flag indicating whether libraries are
also created as plugins. This defaults to false for compatibility
with old omake versions. Set it to CMXS_SUPPORTED to enable this
feature when supported
Define this as true if you wish to use
menhir instead of ocamlyacc (default false).
Whether to include more information into
rule digests and make it more sensitive to structural changes at the cost
of build speed (true or false).
The C compiler used internally by OCaml
The C compiler flags used by OCaml
The following variables specify additional options to be passed to the OCaml tools.
Flags to pass to the byte-code compiler (default -g).
Flags to pass to the native-code compiler (default empty).
Flags to pass to either compiler (default -warn-error A).
Flags to pass to the byte-code linker (default empty).
Flags to pass to the native-code linker (default empty).
Flags to pass to either linker.
Additional flags to pass to menhir.
The following variables are used during linking.
Libraries to pass to the linker. These libraries become dependencies of the link step.
Additional libraries to pass to the linker. These libraries are
not included as dependencies to the link step. Typical use is for the OCaml
standard libraries like unix or str.
C libraries to pass to the linker.
Extra flags for the library linker.
OCaml linker requires the OCaml files to be
listed in dependency order. Normally, all the functions presented in this section will automatically sort
the list of OCaml modules passed in as the <files> argument. However, this variable is
set to true, the order of the files passed into these function will be left as is, but OMake will
abort with an error message if the order is illegal.
As of OCaml version 3.09.2, the standard ocamldep scanner is “broken”. The main issue is
that it finds only those dependencies that already exist. If foo.ml contains a dependency
on Bar,
foo.ml: open Bar
then the default ocamldep will only find the dependency if a file bar.ml or
bar.ml exists in the include path. It will not find (or print) the dependency if, for
example, only bar.mly exists at the time ocamldep is run, even though bar.ml
and bar.mli can be generated from bar.mly.
OMake currently provides two methods for addressing this problem — one that requires manually
specifying the generated files, and an experimental method for discovering such “hidden”
dependencies automatically. The
OCAMLDEP_MODULES_ENABLED variable controls which method is
going to be used. When this variable is false, the manual specifications are expected and when it
is true, the automated discovery will be attempted.
OCamlGeneratedFiles(files) LocalOCamlGeneratedFiles(files)
When the OCAMLDEP_MODULES_ENABLED variable variable is set
to false, the OCamlGeneratedFiles and LocalOCamlGeneratedFiles functions specify files
that need to be generated before any OCaml files are scanned for dependencies. For example,
if parser.ml and lexer.ml are both generated files, specify:
OCamlGeneratedFiles(parser.ml lexer.ml)
The OCamlGeneratedFiles function is global — its arguments will be generated
before any OCaml files anywhere in the project are scanned for dependencies. The
LocalOCamlGeneratedFiles function follows the normal scoping rules of OMake.
These functions have no effect when the
OCAMLDEP_MODULES_ENABLED variable is true.
Having to specify the generated files manualy when OMake could discover them automatically is
obviously suboptimal. To address this, we tell ocamldep to only
find the free module names in a file and then post-process the results internally.
This automated functionality is enabled when the
OCAMLDEP_MODULES_ENABLED variable is set to true.
By default, OCAMLDEP_MODULES_ENABLED variable will be set to
$(OCAMLDEP_MODULES_AVAILABLE).
Note that the ocamldep functionality this relies upon is only included in
the OCaml version 3.10 and higher. It’s availability will be discovered automatically
and the OCAMLDEP_MODULES_AVAILABLE variable
will be set accordingly.
Sometimes, MLI files only contain type and exception definitions. In fact, the MLI file could also be parsed as ML file. For convenience, it is possible to declare modules as MLI-only. In this case, an ML file needs not to be written. Do this as follows:
DeclareMLIOnly(<files>)
where the <files> are without suffixes.
Note that this really only works if the MLI file can be parsed as ML file. Also, it is possible this results in an object to be linked in, so don’t forget to link the modules into the library or executable.
Menhir is a parser generator that is mostly compatible with
ocamlyacc, but with many improvements. A few of these
are listed here (excerpted from the Menhir home page
http://cristal.inria.fr/~fpottier/menhir/).
--infer option, Menhir can typecheck the semantic actions
in your grammar at generation time.
What do you need to do to use Menhir instead of ocamlyacc?
OMakefile if you want to use Menhir everywhere).MENHIR_ENABLED = true
MENHIR_FLAGS variable.MENHIR_FLAGS += --infer
With this setup, any file with a .mly suffix will be compiled with Menhir.
If your grammar is split across several files, you need to specify it explicitly,
using the MenhirMulti function.
MenhirMulti(target, sources)
target : filename, without suffix
sources : the files that define the grammar, without suffixes
For example, if you want to generate the parser files parse.ml and parse.mli,
from the grammar specified in files a.mly and b.mly, you would use
the following.
MenhirMulti(parse, a b)
The OCamlLibrary function builds an OCaml library.
OCamlLibrary(<libname>, <files>)
The <libname> and <files> are listed without suffixes.
This function returns the list of all the targets that it defines the rules
for (including the $(name)$(EXT_LIB) file when NATIVE_ENABLED is set).
The following code builds the libfoo.cmxa library from the files foo.cmx
and bar.cmx (if NATIVE_ENABLED is set), and libfoo.cma from
foo.cmo and bar.cmo (if BYTE_ENABLED is set).
OCamlLibrary(libfoo, foo bar)
If the variable CMXS_ENABLED is set, additionally the cmxs plugin
is created. Note that CMXS_SUPPORTED returns whether the compiler
installation supports plugins, so you can simply set
CMXS_ENABLED = CMXS_SUPPORTED
\end{verbatime}
before calling \verb+OCamlLibrary+. For compatibility with older omake
versions, \verb+CMXS_ENABLED+ defaults to \verb+false+.
\fun{OCamlPackage}
The \verb+OCamlPackage+ function builds an OCaml package.
\verb+OCamlPackage(<name>, <files>)+
The \verb+<name>+ and \verb+<files>+ are listed \emph{without} suffixes.
The \verb+<files>+ must have been compiled with the \verb+-for-pack <ident>+
flag to the OCaml compiler.
This function returns the list of all the targets that it defines the rules
for (including the \verb+$(name)$(EXT_LIB)+ file when \verb+NATIVE_ENABLED+ is set).
The following code builds the \verb+libfoo.cmx+ package from the files \verb+package.cmx+
and \verb+bar.cmx+ (if \verb+NATIVE_ENABLED+ is set), and \verb+package.cmo+ from
\verb+foo.cmo+ and \verb+bar.cmo+ (if \verb+BYTE_ENABLED+ is set).
\begin{verbatim}
OCamlPackage(package, foo bar)
The OCamlLibraryCopy function copies a library to an install location.
OCamlLibraryCopy(<tag>, <libdir>, <libname>, <interface-files>)
The <interface-files> specify additional interface files
to be copied if the INSTALL_INTERFACES variable is true.
The OCamlLibraryInstall function builds a library
and copies it to an install location in one step.
OCamlLibraryInstall(<tag>, <libdir>, <libname>, <files>)
The OCamlProgram function builds an OCaml program. It returns the array with all
the targets for which it has defined the rules ($(name)$(EXE) and $(name).run
and/or $(name).opt, depending on the NATIVE_ENABLED and BYTE_ENABLED
variables).
OCamlProgram(<name>, <files>)
Additional variables used:
OCAML_LIBSOCAML_OTHER_LIBSOCAML_CLIBSOCAML_BYTE_LINK_FLAGSOCAML_NATIVE_LINK_FLAGSOCAML_LINK_FLAGSThe OCamlProgramCopy function copies an OCaml program to an install location.
OCamlProgramCopy(<tag>, <bindir>, <name>)
Additional variables used:
NATIVE_ENABLED variable is set, the native-code executable
is copied; otherwise the byte-code executable is copied.
The OCamlProgramInstall function builds a programs and copies it to
an install location in one step.
OCamlProgramInstall(<tag>, <bindir>, <name>, <files>)
OMake provides support for building LATEX documents, including support for automatically running BiBTex and for producing PostScript and PDF files. In order to use the functions defined in this section, you need to make sure the line
open build/LaTeX
is present in your OMakeroot file.
The following variables can be modified in your project.
The LATEX command (default latex).
Flag indicating whether to use advanced LATEX options
present in TeTeX v.2 (default value is determined the first time omake reads LaTeX.src
and depends on the version of LATEX you have installed).
The LATEX flags (defaults depend on the TETEX2_ENABLED variable)
The BibTeX command (default bibtex).
The command to build an index (default makeindex).
The .dvi to PostScript converter (default dvips).
Flags to pass to dvips (default -t letter).
The .dvi to .pdf converter (default dvipdfm).
Flags to pass to dvipdfm (default -p letter).
The .latex to .pdf converter (default pdflatex).
Flags to pass to pdflatex (default is $`(LATEXFLAGS)).
Flag indicating whether to use pdflatex instead of dvipdfm
to generate the .pdf document (default false).
The LaTeXDocument produces a LATEX document.
LaTeXDocument(<name>, <texfiles>)
The document <name> and <texfiles> are listed without suffixes. This function
returns the filenames for the generated .ps (unless USEPDFLATEX variable is set) and .pdf files.
Additional variables used:
The LATEX search path (an array of directories, default is
taken from the TEXINPUTS environment variable).
Additional files this document depends on.
An array of names of the environment variables
that are to be updated based on the value of OMake’s TEXINPUTS variable.
Defaults to TEXINPUTS BIBINPUTS BSTINPUTS.
TeXGeneratedFiles(files) LocalTeXGeneratedFiles(files)
The TeXGeneratedFiles and LocalTeXGeneratedFiles functions specify files
that need to be generated before any LATEXfiles are scanned for dependencies. For example,
if config.tex and inputs.tex are both generated files, specify:
TeXGeneratedFiles(config.tex inputs.tex)
The TeXGeneratedFiles function is global — its arguments will be generated
before any TeX files anywhere in the project are scanned for dependencies. The
LocalTeXGeneratedFiles function follows the normal scoping rules of OMake.
The LaTeXDocumentCopy copies the document to an install location.
LaTeXDocumentCopy(<tag>, <libdir>, <installname>, <docname>)
This function copies just the .pdf and .ps files.
The LaTeXDocumentInstall builds a document and copies it to an
install location in one step.
LaTeXDocumentInstall(<tag>, <libdir>, <installname>, <docname>, <files>)
OMake standard library provides a number of functions and variables intended to help one write build specifications that need to be capable of autoconfiguring itself to adjust to different build environments.
The following general-purpose functions can be used to discover the properties of your build
environment in a fashion similar to the one used by GNU autoconf tool you may be familiar with.
It is recommended that these function be used from an appropriate static. block (see
Section 4.15 for more information).
In order to use the following general-purpose functions, you need to have the line
open configure/Configure
included in your OMakefile or OMakeroot.
ConfMsgChecking(<msg>) ... ConfMsgResult(<msg>)
The ConfMsgChecking function output message of the form --- Checking <msg>...
without any trailing newline. After the test advertized by ConfMsgChecking is
performed, the ConfMsgResult function should be used to output the result.
In certain cases users may want to redefine these function — for example, to use a different output formatting and/or to copy the messages to a log file.
Example:
static. = ConfMsgChecking(which foo to use) foo = ... ConfMsgResult($(foo))
ConfMsgWarn(<msg>) ConfMsgError(<msg>)
Print a warning or an error message respectively. ConfMsgError would then abort OMake.
flag = $(ConfMsgYesNo <bool expr> flag = $(ConfMsgFound <bool expr>
The ConfMsgFound function expects to receive a boolean flag describing whether a test
previously announced using the ConfMsgChecking function found what it
was looking for. ConfMsgFound will output the appropriate result (“found” or “NOT found”)
using the ConfMsgResult function and return its argument back.
The ConfMsgYesNo function is similar, outputting a simple (“yes” or “NO”).
success = $(TryCompileC <prog_text>) success = $(TryLinkC <prog_text>) success = $(TryRunC <prog_text>)
Given the text of a C program, the TryCompileC, TryLinkC, and TryRunC
functions would try to compile / compile and link / compile, link, and run, the given program and return a boolean flag
indicating whether the attempt was successful.
TryCompileC will use the CC, CFLAGS and INCLUDES variables
to run the C compiler. TryLinkC and TryRunC will also use the LDFLAGS variable
to run the C compiler and linker. However, the flags like /WX, -Werror and -warn-error
will be not be passed to the compiler, even if they occur in CFLAGS.
These functions are silent and should normally be used with an appropriate
ConfMsgChecking … ConfMsgResult.
output = $(RunCProg <prog>)
RunCProg is similar to the RunCProg function, except that it
returns the output of the function (will return false if the program fails to compile
or run).
success = $(CheckCHeader <files>) success = $(VerboseCheckCHeader <files>)
Use the TryCompileC function to check whether your C compiler can locate
and process the specified headers files.
Will incude <stdio.h> before including the header files.
Both functions return a boolean value. The CheckCHeader function is silent; the
VerboseCheckCHeader function will use the ConfMsgChecking and
ConfMsgResult functions to describe the test and the outcome.
Example:
static. = NCURSES_H_AVAILABLE = $(VerboseCheckCHeader ncurses.h)
success = $(CheckCLib <libs>, <functions>) success = $(VerboseCheckCLib <libs>, <functions>)
Use the TryLinkC function to check whether your C compiler and linker can
find the named functions when linking with the named libraries. Will pass the <libs> to
the compiler using the -l flag.
Both functions return a boolean value. The CheckCLib function is silent; the
VerboseCheckCHeader function will use the ConfMsgChecking and
ConfMsgResult functions to describe the test and the outcome.
Example:
static. =
NCURSES_LIB_AVAILABLE = $(VerboseCheckCLib ncurses, initscr setupterm tigetstr)
Checks whether the program <prog> exists in your path. Will use the
ConfMsgChecking and
ConfMsgResult functions to describe the test and the outcome.
autoconf scripts
Some of the functions described above are very similar to the ones present in autoconf.
Below is a brief translation table for such functions.
AC_MSG_CHECKING is very similar to ConfMsgChecking function.
AC_MSG_RESULT is very similar to ConfMsgResult function.
AC_MSG_WARN is very similar to ConfMsgWarn function.
AC_MSG_ERROR is very similar to ConfMsgError function.
AC_TRY_COMPILE is somewhat similar to TryCompileC function,
except the TryCompileC function returns a boolean value and only works for C. Similarly,
AC_TRY_LINK is approximated by TryLinkC function, and
AC_TRY_RUN is approximated by TryRunC function.
A number of configuration tests are already included in the standard library.
In order to use them in your project, simply open (see Section 4.8) the
corresponding build file in your OMakefile and the tests will run the first time OMake
is executed. Note that it is not a problem to open these files from more than one place in
your project — if you do that, the test will still run only once.
Add open configure/ncurses line to your OMakefile to get access to the following
autoconfiguration variables.
A boolean flag that would be set when both
the curses.h header, the term.h header, and the ncurses library very found.
A boolean flag that would be set
when term.h has to be included as <ncurses/term.h> instead of <term.h>.
The CFLAGS to use when compiling ncurses code.
Will include -DNCURSES and -DTERMH_IN_NCURSES, respectively
when NCURSES_AVAILABLE and NCURSES_TERMH_IN_NCURSES are true.
The LDFLAGS to use when linking ncurses code.
Will normally contain -lncurses when ncurses is found and remain empty otherwise.
Add open configure/readline line to your OMakefile to get access to the following
autoconfiguration variables.
A boolean flag that would be set when both
the readline/readline.h header, the readline/history.h header, and the readline
library very found.
A boolean flag that would be set when the GNU version of the readline library is found (as opposed to the BSD one).
The CFLAGS to use when compiling readline code.
Will include -DREADLINE_ENABLED and -DREADLINE_GNU, respectively
when READLINE_AVAILABLE and READLINE_GNU are true.
The LDFLAGS to use when linking readline code.
Will normally contain -lncurses -lreadline when readline is found and remain empty otherwise.
Add open configure/snprintf line to your OMakefile to get access to the following
autoconfiguration variables.
A boolean flag telling whether the snprintf function is available in the standard C library.
OMake also includes a standalone command-line interpreter osh that can be used as an interactive shell. The shell uses the same syntax, and provides the same features on all platforms omake supports, including Win32.
On startup, osh reads the file ~/.oshrc if it exists. The syntax of this file is the
same as an OMakefile. The following additional variables are significant.
The prompt variable specifies the command-line prompt.
It can be a simple string.
prompt = osh>
Or you may choose to define it as a function of no arguments.
prompt() =
return $"<$(USER):$(HOST) $(homename $(CWD))>"
An example of the latter prompt is as follows.
<jyh:kenai.yapper.org ~>cd links/omake
<jyh:kenai.yapper.org ~/links/omake>
If you include any "invisible" text in the prompt (such as various terminal
escape sequences), they must be wrapped using the
prompt-invisible function. For example, to create a bold prompt on
terminals that support it, you can use the following.
prompt =
bold-begin = $(prompt-invisible $(tgetstr bold))
bold-end = $(prompt-invisible $(tgetstr sgr0))
value $(bold-begin)$"osh>"$(bold-end)
If the ignoreeof is true, then osh will not exit on
a terminal end-of-file (usually ^D on Unix systems).
Command aliases are defined by adding functions to the Shell. object. The following alias
adds the -AF option to the ls command.
Shell. +=
ls(argv) =
"ls" -AF $(argv)
Quoted commands do not undergo alias expansion. The quotation "ls" prevents the alias from
being recursive.
The interactive syntax in osh is the same as the syntax of an OMakefile, with one
exception in regard to indentation. The line before an indented block must have a colon at the end
of the line. A block is terminated with a . on a line by itself, or ^D. In the
following example, the first line if true has no body, because there is no colon.
# The following if has no body osh>if true # The following if has a body osh>if true: if> if true: if> println(Hello world) if> . Hello world
Note that osh makes some effort to modify the prompt while in an indented body, and it
auto-indents the text.
The colon signifier is also allowed in files, although it is not required.
omake [-j <count>] [-k] [-p] [-P] [-n] [-s] [-S] [-w] [-t] [-u] [-U] [-R] [--verbose] [--project] [--depend] [--progress] [--print-status] [--print-exit] [--print-dependencies] [--show-dependencies <target>] [--all-dependencies] [--verbose-dependencies] [--force-dotomake] [--dotomake <dir>] [--flush-includes] [--configure] [--save-interval <seconds>] [--install] [--install-all] [--install-force] [--version] [--absname] [--output-normal] [--output-postpone] [--output-only-errors] [--output-at-end] filename... [var-definition...]
For Boolean options (for example, -s, --progress, etc.) the option can include a
prefix --no, which inverts the usual sense of the option. For example, the option
--progress means “print a progress bar,” while the option --no--progress means
“do not print a progress bar.”
If multiple instances of an option are specified, the final option determines the behavior of OMake.
In the following command line, the final --no-S cancels the earlier -S.
% omake -S --progress --no-S
Never not print commands as they are executed (be “silent”).
Do not print commands as they are executed unless they produce output and/or fail. This is the default.
Print directory information in make format as commands are executed. This is mainly useful for editors that expect make-style directory information for determining the location of errors.
Print a progress indicator. This option is enabled by default when the OMake’s output
(stdout) is on a terminal and disabled by default (except on Windows) when the OMake’s
output is redirected.
Print status lines (the + and - lines).
Print termination codes when commands complete.
Make OMake very verbose. This option is equivalent to
--no-S --print-status --print-exit VERBOSE=true
As rule commands are executed, relay their output to the OMake output right away. This is enabled
by default, unless --output-postpone or --output-only-errors is enabled.
When a rule finishes, print the output as a single block. This is useful in combination -j
option (see Section A.3.12), where the output of multiple subprocesses can be garbled. The
diversion is printed as a single coherent unit.
Note that enabling --output-postpone will by default disable the --output-normal
option. This might be problematic if you have a command that decides to ask for interactive input.
If the --output-postpone is enabled, but the --output-normal is not, the prompt of
such a command will not be visible and it may be hard to figure out why the build appears “stuck”.
You might also consider using the --progress flag (see Section A.2.4) so
that you can see when the build is active.
Similar to --output-postpone, except that the postponed output from commands that were
successful will be discarded. This can be useful in reducing unwanted output so that you can
concentrate on any errors.
If any rules/commands fail, re-print the output of the failed commands when OMake finishes the
build. This is especially useful when any of the -k, -p, or -P options are
enabled.
This option is off by default. However, when -k is enabled — either explicitly or via one
of the -p/-P options — --output-at-end will be enabled by default.
For brevity, the -o option is also provided to duplicate the above output options. The
-o option takes a argument consisting of a sequence of characters. The characters are read
from left-to-right; each specifies a set of output options. In general, an uppercase character turns
the option on; a lowercase character turns the option off.
-s --output-only-errors --no-progressThis option specifies that omake should be as quiet as possible. If any errors occur
during the build, the output is delayed until the build terminates. Output from successful commands
is discarded.
-S --progress --output-only-errorsThis is a slightly more relaxed version of “quiet” output. The output from successful commands is
discarded. The output from failed commands is printed immediately after the command complete. The
output from failed commands is displayed twice: once immediately after the command completes, and
again when the build completes. A progress bar is displayed so that you know when the build is
active. Include the ‘p’ option if you want to turn off the progress bar (for example
omake -o 1p).
--progress --output-postponeThe is even more relaxed, output from successful commands is printed.
This is often useful for deinterleaving the output when using -j.
-w
--no-w
--progress
--no--progress
--print-exit
--no-print-exit
-S
--no-S
Do not abort when a build command fails; continue to build as much of the project as possible. This
option is implied by both -p and -P options. In turn, this option would imply the
--output-at-end option.
This can be used to see what would happen if the project were to be built.
Watch the filesystem for changes, and continue the build until it succeeds. If this option is specified, omake will restart the build whenever source files are modified. Implies -k.
Watch the filesystem for changes forever. If this option is specified, omake will restart the build whenever source files are modified. Implies -k.
Ignore the current directory and build the project from its root directory. When omake is
run in a subdirectory of a project and no explicit targets are given on the command line, it would
normally only build files within the current directory and its subdirectories (more precisely, it
builds all the .DEFAULT targets in the current directory and its subdirectories). If the
-R option is specified, the build is performed as if omake were run in the project
root.
In other words, with the -R option, all the relative targets specified on the command line
will be taken relative to the project root (instead of relative to the current directory). When no
targets are given on the command line, all the .DEFAULT targets in the project will be built
(regardless of the current directory).
Update the omake database to force the project to be considered up-to-date.
Do not trust cached build information. This will force the entire project to be rebuilt.
Do not trust cached dependency information. This will force files to be rescanned for dependency information.
Re-run static. sections of the included omake files, instead of
trusting the cached results.
Always use the $HOME/.omake for the .omc cache files.
Use the specified directory instead of the $HOME/.omake
for the placement of the .omc cache files.
Run multiple build commands in parallel. The count specifies a
bound on the number of commands to run simultaneously. In addition, the count may specify servers
for remote execution of commands in the form server=count. For example, the option
-j 2:small.host.org=1:large.host.org=4 would specify that up to 2 jobs can be executed
locally, 1 on the server small.host.org and 4 on large.host.org. Each remote server
must use the same filesystem location for the project.
Remote execution is currently an experimental feature. Remote filesystems like NFS do not provide adequate file consistency for this to work.
Print dependency information for the targets on the command line.
Print dependency information if the target is built.
If either of the options --print-dependencies or --show-dependencies is in effect, print transitive dependencies. That is, print all dependencies recursively. If neither option --print-dependencies, --show-dependencies is specified, this option has no effect.
If either of the options --print-dependencies or --show-dependencies is in effect, also print listings for each dependency. The output is very verbose, consider redirecting to a file. If neither option --print-dependencies, --show-dependencies is specified, this option has no effect.
Install default files OMakefile and OMakeroot into the current directory. You would typically do this to start a project in the current directory.
In addition to installing files OMakefile and OMakeroot, install default
OMakefiles into each subdirectory of the current directory. cvs(1) rules are used for
filtering the subdirectory list. For example, OMakefiles are not copied into directories
called CVS, RCCS, etc.
Normally, omake will prompt before it overwrites any existing OMakefile. If this option is given, all files are forcibly overwritten without prompting.
Filenames should expand to absolute pathnames.
N.B. This is an experimental option. It may become deprecated.
omake variables can also be defined on the command line in the form name=value. For
example, the CFLAGS variable might be defined on the command line with the argument
CFLAGS="-Wall -g".
In addition, omake supports a number of debugging flags on the command line. Run
omake --help to get a summary of these flags.
If defines, the OMAKEFLAGS should specify a set of options exactly as they are specified on
the command line.
If defined, the OMAKELIB environment variable should refer to the installed location of the
OMake standard library. This is the directory that contains Pervasives.om etc. On a Unix
system, this is often /usr/lib/omake or /usr/local/lib/omake, and on Win32 systems it
is often c:\Program Files\OMake\lib.
If not defined, omake uses the default configured location. You should normally leave this
unset.
The OMakeFlags function can be used within an OMakefile to modify
the set of options. The options should be specified exactly as they are on the command line. For
example, if you want some specific project to be silent and display a progress bar, you can add the
following line to your OMakefile.
OMakeFlags(-S --progress)
For options where it makes sense, the options are scoped like variables. For example, if you want OMake to be silent for a single rule (instead of for the entire project), you can use scoping the restrict the range of the option.
section
# Do not display command output when foo is constructed
OMakeFlags(-S)
foo: fee
echo "This is a generated file" > foo
cat fee >> foo
chmod 555 foo
When omake is invoked, the options are processed in the following order.
OMAKEFLAGS environment variable are defined globally.
OMakeFlags function modify the options locally.
If the $(HOME)/.omakerc exists, it is read before any of the OMakefiles in your
project. The .omakerc file is frequently used for user-specific customization.
For example, instead of defining the OMAKEFLAGS environment variable, you could add
a line to your .omakerc.
$(HOME)/.omakerc:
# My private options
OMakeFlags(-S --progress)
The OMake language is based on the language for GNU/BSD make, where there are few lexical conventions. Strictly speaking, there are no keywords, and few special symbols.
Comments begin with the # character and continue to the end-of-line.
Text within a comment is unrestricted.
Examples.
# This is a comment # This $comment contains a quote " character
The following characters are special in some contexts.
$ ( ) , . = : " ' ` \ #
$ is used to denote a variable reference, or function application.
), ( are argument deliminters.
, is an argument separator.
. is a name separator.
= denotes a definition.
: is used to denote rules, and (optionally) to indicate
that an expression is followed by an indented body.
" and ' delimit character strings.
# is the first character of a constant.
\ is special only when followed by another special
character. In this case, the special status of the second character is removed,
and the sequence denotes the second character. Otherwise, the \ is not special.Examples:
\$: the $ character (as a normal character).
\#: the # character (as a normal character).
\\: the \ character (as a normal character).
c\:\Windows\moo\#boo: the string c:\Windows\moo#boo.
Identifiers (variable names) are drawn from the ASCII alphanumeric characters as well as _,
-, ~, @. Case is significant; the following identifiers are distinct:
FOO, Foo, foo. The identifier may begin with any of the valid characters,
including digits.
Using egrep notation, the regular expression for identifiers is defined as follows.
identifier ::= [-@~_A-Za-z0-9]+
The following are legal identifiers.
Xyz hello_world seventy@nine
79-32 Gnus~Gnats CFLAGS
The following are not legal identifiers.
x+y hello&world
The following words have special significance when they occur as the first word of a program line. They are not otherwise special.
case catch class declare default
do else elseif export extends
finally if import include match
open raise return section switch
try value when while
A variable reference is denoted with the $ special character followed by an identifier. If
the identifier name has more than one character, it must be enclosed in parentheses. The
parenthesized version is most common. The following are legal variable references.
$(Xyz) $(hello_world) $(seventy@nine)
$(79-32) $(Gnus~Gnats) $(CFLAGS)
Single-character references also include several additional identifiers, including &*<^?][.
The following are legal single-character references.
$@ $& $* $< $^ $+ $? $[ $] $A $_ $a $b $x $1 $2 $3
Note that a non-parenthesized variable reference is limited to a single character, even if it is
followed by additional legal identifier charqcters. Suppose the value of the $x variable is
17. The following examples illustrate evaluation.
$x evaluates to 17
foo$xbar evaluates to foo17bar
foo$(x)bar evaluates to foo17bar
The special sequence $$ represents the character literal $. That is, the
two-character sequences \$ and $$ are normally equalivalent.
Literal strings are defined with matching string delimiters. A left string delimiter begins with
the dollar-sign $, and a non-zero number of single-quote or double-quote characters. The
string is terminated with a matching sequence of quotation symbols. The delimiter quotation may not
be mixed; it must contain only single-quote characters, or double-quote characters. The following
are legal strings.
$'Hello world'
$"""printf("Hello world\n")"""
$''''
Large "block" of
text # spanning ''multiple'' lines''''
The string delimiters are not included in the string constant. In the single-quote form, the contents of the string are interpreted verbatim–there are no special characters.
The double-quote form permits expression evaluation within the string, denoted with the $ symbol.
The following are some examples.
X = Hello
Y = $""$X world"" # Hello world
Z = $'''$X world''' # $X world
I = 3
W = $"6 > $(add $I, 2)" # 6 > 5
Note that quotation symbols without a leading $ are not treated specially by OMake. The
quotation symbols is included in the sequence.
osh>println('Hello world')
'Hello world'
osh>println($'Hello world')
Hello world
osh>X = Hello
- : "Hello" : Sequence
osh>println('$X world')
Hello world
OMake programs are constructed from expressions and statements. Generally, an input program consists of a sequence of statements, each of which consists of one or more lines. Indentation is significant–if a statement consists of more than one line, the second and remaining lines (called the body) are usually indented relative to the first line.
The following table lists the syntax for expressions.
| expr | ::= | |
| (empty) | ||
| – Text (see note) | ||
| | | text | |
| | | string-literal | |
| – Applications | ||
| | | dollar <char> | |
| | | dollar ( pathid args ) | |
| – Concatenation | ||
| | | expr expr | |
| dollar | ::= | $ | $` | $,
|
| pathid | ::= | |
| id | ||
| | | pathid . id | |
| arg | ::= | expr – excluding special characters )(,) |
| args | ::= | (empty) | arg, ..., arg |
An expression is a sequence composed of text, string-literals, variables references and function applications. Text is any sequence of non-special characters.
An application is the application of a function to zero-or-more arguments. Inline
applications begin with one of the “dollar” sequences $, $`, or $,. The
application itself is specified as a single character (in which case it is a variable reference), or
it is a parenthesized list including a function identifier pathid, and zero-or-more
comma-separated arguments args. The arguments are themselves a variant of the expressions
where the special character )(, are not allowed (though any of these may be made non-special
with the \ escape character). The following are some examples of valid expressions.
xyz abcThe text sequence “xyz abc”
xyz$wabcA text sequence containing a reference to the variable w.
$(addsuffix .c, $(FILES))An application of the function addsuffix, with first argument .c, and second argument $(FILES).
$(a.b.c 12)This is a method call. The variable a must evaluate to an object with a field b,
which must be an object with a method c. This method is called with argument 12.
The additional dollar sequences specify evaluation order, $` (lazy) and $, (eager), as
discussed in the section on dollar modifiers (Section B.3).
The following table lists the syntax of statements and programs.
| params | ::= | (empty) | id, ..., id |
| target | ::= | expr – excluding special character : |
| program | ::= | stmt <eol> ... <eol> stmt |
| stmt | ::= | |
| – Special forms | ||
| | | command expr optcolon-body | |
| | | command ( args ) optcolon-body | |
| | | catch id ( id ) optcolon-body | |
| | | class id ... id | |
| – Variable definitions | ||
| | | pathid {+}= expr | |
| | | pathid {+}= <eol> indented-body | |
| | | pathid[] {+}= expr | |
| | | pathid[] {+}= <eol> indented-exprs | |
| – Functions | ||
| | | pathid(args) optcolon-body | |
| | | pathid(params) = <eol> indented-body | |
| – Objects | ||
| | | pathid . {+}= <eol> indented-body | |
| – Rules | ||
| | | target : target rule-options <eol> indented-body | |
| | | target :: target rule-options <eol> indented-body | |
| | | target : target : target rule-options <eol> indented-body | |
| | | target :: target : target rule-options <eol> indented-body | |
| – Shell commands | ||
| | | expr | |
| indented-body | ::= | (empty) |
| | | indented-stmt <eol> ... <eol> indented-stmt | |
| indented-exprs | ::= | (empty) |
| | | indented-expr <eol> ... <eol> indented-expr | |
| optcolon-body | ::= | (empty) |
| | | <eol> indented-body | |
| | | : <eol> indented-body | |
| rule-option | ::= | :id: target |
| rule-options | ::= | (empty) |
| | | rule-options rule-option |
The special forms include the following.
Conditionals (see the section on conditionals — Section 4.10). The if command
should be followed by an expression that represents the condition, and an indented body. The
conditional may be followed by elseif and else blocks.
if expr
indented-body
elseif expr
indented-body
...
else
indented-body
matching (see the section on matching — Section 4.11). The switch and
match commands perform pattern-matching. All cases are optional. Each case may include
when clauses that specify additional matching conditions.
match(expr)
case expr
indented-body
when expr
indented-body
...
case expr
indented-body
default
indented-body
Exceptions (see also the try function documentation). The try command
introduces an exception handler. Each name is the name of a class. All cases, including
catch, default, and finally are optional. The catch and default
clauses contain optional when clauses.
try
indented-body
catch name1(id1)
indented-body
when expr
indented-body
...
catch nameN(idN)
indented-body
default
indented-body
finally
indented-body
The raise command is used to raise an exception.
raise expr
section (see the section description in Section 4.9). The section command
introduces a new scope.
section
indented-body
include, open (see also Section 4.8). The include command
performs file inclusion. The expression should evaluate to a file name.
The open form is like include, but it performs the inclusion only if the inclusion has not
already been performed. The open form is usually used to include library files. [jyh– this
behavior will change in subsequent revisions.]
include expr
open expr
return (see the description of functions in Section 4.5). The return command
terminates execution and returns a value from a function.
return expr
value (see the description of functions in Section 4.5). The value command is an identity.
Syntactically, it is used to coerce a n expression to a statement.
value expr
export (see the section on scoping — Section 6.3). The export command exports
a environment from a nested block. If no arguments are given, the entire environment is exported.
Otherwise, the export is limited to the specified identifiers.
export expr
while (see also the while function description). The while command introduces a while loop.
while expr
indented-body
class, extends (see the section on objects — Section 4.12). The class command
specifies an identifier for an object. The extends command specifies a parent object.
class id
extends expr
See the section on variables (Section 4.1). The simplest variable definition has the
following syntax. The = form is a new definition. The += form appends the value to
an existing definition.
id = expr
id += expr
osh> X = 1
- : "1" : Sequence
osh> X += 7
- : "1" " " "7" : Sequence
A multi-line form is allowed, where the value is computed by an indented body.
id {+}=
indented-body
osh> X =
Y = HOME
println(Y is $Y)
getenv($Y)
Y is HOME
- : "/home/jyh" : Sequence
The name may be qualified qith one of the public, prtected, or private
modifiers. Public variables are dynamically scoped. Protected variables are fields in the current
object. Private variables are statically scoped.
[jyh: revision 0.9.9 introduces modular namespaces; the meaning of these qualifiers is slightly changed.]
public.X = $(addsuffix .c, 1 2 3)
protected.Y = $(getenv HOME)
private.Z = $"Hello world"
See the section on functions (Section 4.5). A function-application statement is specified as a function name, followed a parenthesized list of comma-separated arguments.
osh> println($"Hello world")
osh> FILES = 1 2 3
- : 1 2 3
osh> addsuffix(.c, $(FILES))
- : 1.c 2.c 3.c
# The following forms are equivalent
osh> value $(println $"Hello world")
osh> value $(addsuffix .c, $(FILES))
- : 1.c 2.c 3.c
If the function application has a body, the body is passed (lazily) to the function as its first
argument. [jyh: in revision 0.9.8 support is incomplete.] When using osh, the application
must be followed by a colon : to indicate that the application has a body.
# In its 3-argument form, the foreach function takes
# a body, a variable, and an array. The body is evaluated
# for each element of the array, with the variable bound to
# the element value.
#
# The colon is required only for interactive sessions.
osh> foreach(x => 1 2 3):
add($x, 1)
- : 2 3 4
Functions are defined in a similar form, where the parameter list is specified as a comma-separated list of identifiers, and the body of the function is indented.
osh> f(i, j) =
add($i, $j)
- : <fun 2>
osh> f(3, 7)
- : 10 : Int
See the section on objects (Section 4.12). Objects are defined as an identifier with a terminal period. The body of the object is indented.
Obj. =
class Obj
X = 1
Y = $(sub $X, 12)
new(i, j) =
X = $i
Y = $j
value $(this)
F() =
add($X, $Y)
println($Y)
The body of the object has the usual form of an indented body, but new variable definitions are
added to the object, not the global environment. The object definition above defines an object with
(at least) the fields X and Y, and methods new and F. The name of the
object is defined with the class command as Obj.
The Obj itself has fields X = 1 and Y = -11. The new method has the
typical form of a constructor-style method, where the fields of the object are initialized to new
values, and the new object returned ($(this) refers to the current object).
The F method returns the sum of the two fields X and Y.
When used in an object definition, the += form adds the new definitions to an existing object.
pair. =
x = 1
y = 2
pair. +=
y = $(add $y, 3)
# pair now has fields (x = 1, and y = 5)
The extends form specifies inheritance. Multiple inheritance is allowed. At evaluation
time, the extends directive performs inclusion of the entire parent object.
pair. =
x = 1
y = 2
depth. =
z = 3
zoom(dz) =
z = $(add $z, $(dz))
return $(this)
triple. =
extends $(pair)
extends $(depth)
crazy() =
zoom($(mul $x, $y))
In this example, the triple object has three fields x, y, and z; and two methods zoom
and crazy.
See the chapter on rules (Chapter 8). A rule has the following parts.
The targets are the files to be built, and the dependencies are the files it depends on. If two colons are specified, it indicates that there may be multiple rules to build the given targets; otherwise only one rule is allowed.
If the target contains a % character, the rule is called implicit, and is considered
whenever a file matching that pattern is to be built. For example, the following rule specifies a
default rule for compiling OCaml files.
%.cmo: %.ml %.mli
$(OCAMLC) -c $<
This rule would be consulted as a default way of building any file with a .cmo suffix. The
dependencies list is also constructed based on the pattern match. For example, if this rule were
used to build a file foo.cmo, then the dependency list would be foo.ml foo.mli.
There is also a three-part version of a rule, where the rule specification has three parts.
targets : patterns : dependencies rule-options
indented-body
In this case, the patterns must contain a single % character. Three-part rules are
also considered implicit. For example, the following defines a default rule for the
clean target.
.PHONY: clean
clean: %:
rm -f *$(EXT_OBJ) *$(EXT_LIB)
Three-part implicit rules are inherited by the subdirectories in the exact same way as with the usual two-part implicit rules.
There are several special targets, including the following.
.PHONY : declare a “phony” target. That is, the target does not correspond to a file.
.ORDER : declare a rule for dependency ordering.
.INCLUDE : define a rule to generate a file for textual inclusion.
.SUBDIRS : specify subdirectories that are part of the project.
.SCANNER : define a rule for dependency scanning.
There are several rule options.
:optional: dependencies the subsequent dependencies are optional, it is acceptable if they do not exist.
:exists: dependencies the subsequent dependencies must exist, but changes to not affect
whether this rule is considered out-of-date.
:effects: targets the subsequent files are side-effects of the rule. That is, they may be
created and/or modified while the rule is executing. Rules with overlapping side-effects are never
executed in parallel.
:scanner: name the subsequent name is the name of the .SCANNER rule for the target to be built.
:value: expr the expr is a “value” dependency. The rule is considered
out-of-date whenever the value of the expr changes.
Several variables are defined during rule evaluation.
$* : the name of the target with the outermost suffix removed.
$> : the name of the target with all suffixes removed.
$@ : the name of the target.
$^ : the explicit file dependencies, sorted alphabetically, with duplicates removed.
$+ : all explicit file dependencies, with order preserved.
$< : the first explicit file dependency.
$& : the free values of the rule (often used in :value: dependencies).
See the chapter on shell commands (Chapter 11).
While it is possible to give a precise specification of shell commands, the informal description is simpler. Any non-empty statement where each prefix is not one of the other statements, is considered to be a shell command. Here are some examples.
ls -- shell command
echo Hello world > /dev/null -- shell command
echo(Hello world) -- function application
echo(Hello world) > /dev/null -- syntax error
echo Hello: world -- rule
X=1 getenv X -- variable definition
env X=1 getenv X -- shell command
if true -- special form
\if true -- shell command
"if" true -- shell command
Inline applications have a function and zero-or-more arguments. Evaluation is normally strict: when an application is evaluated, the function identifier is evaluated to a function, the arguments are then evaluated and the function is called with the evaluated arguments.
The additional “dollar” sequences specify additional control over evaluation. The token $`
defines a “lazy” application, where evaluation is delayed until a value is required. The
$, sequence performs an “eager” application within a lazy context.
To illustrate, consider the expression $(addsuffix .c, $(FILES)). The addsuffix
function appends its first argument to each value in its second argument. The following osh
interaction demonstrates the normal bahavior.
osh> FILES[] = a b c - : <array a b c> osh> X = $(addsuffix .c, $(FILES)) - : <array ...> osh> FILES[] = 1 2 3 # redefine FILES - : <array 1 2 3> osh> println($"$X") # force the evaluation and print a.c b.c c.c
When the lazy operator $` is used instead, evaluation is delayed until it is printed. In the
following sample, the value for X has changed to the $(apply ..) form, but otherwise
the result is unchanged because it it printed immediately.
osh> FILES[] = a b c - : <array a b c> osh> SUF = .c - : ".c" osh> X = $`(addsuffix $(SUF), $(FILES)) - : $(apply global.addsuffix ...) osh> println($"$X") # force the evaluation and print a.c b.c c.c
However, consider what happens if we redefine the FILES variable after the definition for
X. In the following sample, the result changes because evaluation occurs after the
values for FILES has been redefined.
osh> FILES[] = a b c - : <array a b c> osh> SUF = .c - : ".c" osh> X = $`(addsuffix $(SUF), $(FILES)) - : $(apply global.addsuffix ...) osh> SUF = .x osh> FILES[] = 1 2 3 osh> println($"$X") # force the evaluation and print 1.x 2.x 3.x
In some cases, more explicit control is desired over evaluation. For example, we may wish to
evaluate SUF early, but allow for changes to the FILES variable. The $,(SUF)
expression forces early evaluation.
osh> FILES[] = a b c - : <array a b c> osh> SUF = .c - : ".c" osh> X = $`(addsuffix $,(SUF), $(FILES)) - : $(apply global.addsuffix ...) osh> SUF = .x osh> FILES[] = 1 2 3 osh> println($"$X") # force the evaluation and print 1.c 2.c 3.c
This feature was introduced in version 0.9.8.6.
The standard OMake language is designed to make it easy to specify strings. By default, all values are strings, and strings are any sequence of text and variable references; quote symbols are not necessary.
CFLAGS += -g -Wall
The tradeoff is that variable references are a bit longer, requiring the syntax $(...).
The “program syntax” inverts this behavior. The main differences are the following.
f(exp1, ..., expN).
It is only the syntax of expressions that changes. The large scale program is as before: a program
is a sequence of definitions, commands, indentation is significant, etc. However, the syntax of expressions
changes, where an expression is 1) the value on the right of a variable definition Var = <exp>, or 2)
an argument to a function.
The following table lists the syntax for expressions.
| e | ::= | 0, 1, 2, ... | integers |
| | | 0.1, 1E+23, ... | floating-point constants | |
| | | x, ABC, ... | identifiers | |
| | | id::id | scoped name | |
| | | id.id. ... id | projection | |
| | | - e | negation | |
| | | e + e | e - e | e * e | e / e | e % e | arithmetic | |
| | | e ^ e | e & e | e | e | bitwise operations | |
| | | e << e | e >> e | e >>> e | shifting | |
| | | e && e | e || e | Boolean operations | |
| | | e < e | e <= e | e = e | e >= e | e > e | comparisons | |
| | | e(e, ..., e) | function application | |
| | | e[e] | array subscripting | |
| | | ( e ) | parenthesized expressions | |
| | | " ... " | ' ... ' | strings | |
| | | $" ... " | $' ... ' | strings | |
| | | $( ... ) | variables and applications |
Note that the $-style expressions are still permitted.
The program-syntax is specified with the directive program-syntax, which is scoped in the normal way.
program-syntax
i = 0
l[] =
while i < 10
l[] += i
i = i + 1
println($"The indexes are: $l")
You can mix normal and program syntax.
program-syntax
add2(i) =
eprintln($"add2($i)")
return i + 2
mul2(i, j) =
eprintln($"mul2($i, $j)")
return i * j
println(mul2(mul2(3, 4), $(add2 1 << 20)))
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omake(1) (Chapter 1), osh(1) (Chapter 15), make(1)
Version: 0.10.2 of 1stFebruary, 2017.
© 2003-2006, Mojave Group, Caltech
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Jason Hickey, Aleksey Nogin, et. al.
Caltech 256-80
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Email: omake-devel@metaprl.org
WWW: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~jyh and http://nogin.org/
OMake is maintained by Gerd Stolpmann, gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de.
WWW: http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/omake.html
Mailing list: omake@lists.ocaml.org,
http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/omake
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