Baker

A simple build automation tool like GNU Make.

Dependencies

Baker calls sh -c <cmd> to execute your commands. I originally wanted to directly execute the commands, but parsing variables and other shell syntax added a lot of extra code which could have been easily prevented with sh.

Installing

Arch Linux

Baker is available in the AUR (baker-git).

Compiling via baker

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bake

A binary will be copied to ./bin/bake

Install sudo bake install

Uninstall sudo bake uninstall

For building man pages, install pandoc and run:

bake docs

The exported man page will be in ./docs/baker.1.

Usage

• Execute command in build: bake

• List all commands: bake [-c, --commands]

• Show help message: bake [-h, --help]

• Run a custom command: bake [command]

Configuration

Baker looks for a recipe.toml in the root directory. If it doesn't find one, it generates one:

For tracking command execution time and knowing which command is being executed set debug = true in the recipe.toml. If debug is set to false or not set at all baker will just print stdout/stderr of the command being executed.

[build]
cmd = ""

build is executed when the binary is invoked without any flags.

Custom commands

Custom commands can be set using custom.

# clean is taken as the name of the custom command

[custom.clean]
cmd = "cargo clean" # cmd
run = false # if it should run after build is executed

You can also run custom commands directly by invoking baker with the name of the cmd as the argument.

Example:

bake clean

Running commands before build

You can also run commands before build using pre.

# fmt is taken as the name of the pre command

[pre.fmt]
cmd = "cargo fmt"

Environment variables

You can set env vars using env.

[env]
TEST_ENV="foo"
TEST_ENV_2="bar"

Recursion

Baker also supports recursion (invoking baker inside baker):

Example:

[custom.docs]
cmd = "pandoc docs/baker.1.md -s -t man -o docs/baker.1"
run = false

[custom.view-docs]
cmd ="bake docs && man ./docs/baker.1"
run = false

Running bake view-docs will run bake docs and view the man page.

An example config can be found in recipe.toml