Command line interface

--help[=string]

Print this message to stdout, or to the given file, and exit.

--load-path[=string]

Print the load path of the Maike executable to stdout, or the given file, and exit.

--version[=string]

Print version information to stdout, or to the given file, and exit.

--configclean

Do not load any system specific default configuration. In this mode, Maike will only load its build-in configuration, either followed by the file maikeconfig.json, if present in the current directory, or the files listed in configfiles. If the option configfiles is given, maikeconfig.json will not be loaded.

--configdump[=string]

Print the current configuration to stdout, or to the given file, and exit.

--configfiles=string,...

Load the listed configuration files. If this argument is not given, Maike will instead load options from files maikeconfig.json, found in system specific directories, and the current working,

--hooks-config=string,...

Set properties for the given target hooks. The string follows the syntax hook_name:[JSON string without surrounding curly braces].

--hooks-load=string,...

Explicitly load the given target hooks. The string follows the syntax hook_plugin:[filename_ext,...]

--no-sysvars

Do not load any default system variables. This option is useful when using a cross-compiler. Normally, Maike loads a system-dependent set of variables that identifies the host platform.

--clean

Remove targets from disk. This option is like a conventional make clean, with the addition that the affected targets can be controlled by the targets option.

--list-all-targets[=string]

Print all targets to the given file and exit. As default, the data is written to stdout.

--list-external-targets[=string]

Print all external targets to the given file and exit. As default, data is written to stdout. External targets are targets not tracked by Maike--usually, they refer to external libraries.

--list-leaf-targets[=string]

Print all leaf targets to the given file and exit. As default, data is written to stdout. A leaf target is a target that no other target refers to.

--remove-orphans

Remove targets not known by Maike, from disk. This option removes the complement to clean targeting all targets.

--targets=string,...

Only process the listed targets. This option reduces the amount of output when using any of the --dump-* options.

--dump-database-json[=string]

Dump the internal database to a JSON file and exit. As default, the data is written to stdout.

--dump-graph-dot[=string]

Dump the dependency graph to a DOT file and exit. As default, the data is written to stdout.

--dump-graph-inv-dot[=string]

Dump an inverted dependency graph to a DOT file and exit. As default, the data is written to stdout.

--dump-targets-tsv[=string]

Dumps information about the selected targets to a TSV (Tab Separated Values) file. As default, the data is written to stdout.