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| author | Brent Murphy <bmurphy@bcmcs.net> | 2020-04-26 16:29:38 +1000 |
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| committer | fuzzard <fuzzard@kodi.tv> | 2020-09-26 18:46:12 +1000 |
| commit | 6a8a8f768c2b414f80b33da414ad19ca2f33a887 (patch) | |
| tree | 2959ecd83600adb6620d33caace369bc4f87e1e0 /cmake | |
| parent | 6aeed0d3fbb0405217c0118838977d934da38f20 (diff) | |
[docs] Provide further information regarding addon_to_build regex usage
Diffstat (limited to 'cmake')
| -rw-r--r-- | cmake/addons/README.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/cmake/addons/README.md b/cmake/addons/README.md index dd222f5cdb..36e78de835 100644 --- a/cmake/addons/README.md +++ b/cmake/addons/README.md @@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ If no add-on definitions could be found, the buildsystem assumes that the bootst ## Buildsystem variables The buildsystem uses the following addon-related variables (which can be passed into it when executing cmake with the -D`<variable-name>=<value>` format) to manipulate the build process: -- `ADDONS_TO_BUILD` has two variations, which are tested in order: - - a quoted, space delimited list of `<addon-id>s` that you want to build (default is *all*) - - a regular expression that every `<addon-id>` is matched against (e.g. `ADDONS_TO_BUILD="pvr.*"`) to build all pvr add-ons +- `ADDONS_TO_BUILD` has four rules for matching a provided space delimited list: + - to build all addons, just use `all` (default is *all*) + - an exact match of an `<addon-id>` that you want to build (e.g. `ADDONS_TO_BUILD="game.libretro"`) + - a regular expression `<addon-id>` is matched against (e.g. `ADDONS_TO_BUILD="pvr.*"`) to build all pvr add-ons + - a regular expression exclusion can be made using `-<addon-id regex>` (e.g. `ADDONS_TO_BUILD="pvr.* -pvr.dvb"`) to exclude pvr.dvblink and pvr.dvbviewer, but build all other pvr add-ons - `ADDONS_DEFINITION_DIR` points to the directory containing the definitions for the addons to be built - `ADDON_SRC_PREFIX` can be used to override the add-on repository location. It must point to the locally available parent directory of the add-on(s) to build. `<addon-id>` will be appended to this path automatically - `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` points to the directory where the built add-ons and their additional files (addon.xml, resources, ...) will be installed to (defaults to `<ADDON_DEPENDS_PATH>`) |