Autobuild

Autobuild is an in-house framework for maintaining and building libraries. It acts as director providing a common interface to build and package libraries, but it is not a build system like make or cmake. You will still need platform specific make, cmake, or project files to actually configure and build your library. Autobuild will, however, allow you invoke these commands and package the product with a common interface. (for Linden old hands: Autobuild is designed as a replacement for the old lindenlib policies, doing the right thing so you don't have to.)

Important: Linden Lab Autobuild is not the same as or derived from GNU Autobuild, but they are similar enough to cause confusion.

Getting Autobuild

Autobuild is available as a Mercurial repository:

https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/autobuild  

Running Autobuild

You can either run the autobuild command directly from the "bin" directory in a working copy of that repository, or install it as a normal python package by running

python setup.py install

from the top level directory of the working copy. You may need administrative privilege on your system to install into system command directories.

Running Autobuild

Usage:

      autobuild [-v] [--help [HELP]] [--dry-run] [--quiet] [--verbose]
                [--debug]
                
                {installables,configure,package,edit,upload,manifest,build,install,print,source_environment,uninstall}
                ...

Sub Commands:

build

Builds platform targets.

configure

Configures platform targets.

edit

Manage build and package configuration.

install

Fetch and install package archives.

installables

Manipulate installable package entries in the autobuild configuration.

manifest

Manipulate manifest entries to the autobuild configuration.

package

Creates an archive of build output.

print

Print configuration.

source_environment

Prints out the shell environment Autobuild-based buildscripts to use (by calling 'eval').

uninstall

Uninstall package archives.

upload

upload tool for autobuild

Options:

-v, --version
--help [HELP]	find all valid Autobuild Tools and show help
--dry-run	run tool in dry run mode if available
--quiet	minimal output
--verbose	verbose output
--debug

Background and Tutorials

Autobuild How To

A tutorial introduction to using autobuild

Autobuild Lexicon

A list of terms and how they are used in the context of autobuild

Autobuild Package Layout

Describes the standard directory tree for packages managed with autobuild

Autobuild Quick Start

A basic walkthrough of how to add autobuild management to an existing software project

Autobuild Class Model

Describes the fundamental objects in the autobuild design and the relationships between them.

Autobuild Package Examples

Contributing to Autobuild

Autobuild is open source. Improvements are most welcome.

• Discussion of and help with Autobuild are available on the opensource-dev mailing list and the #opensl channel on the freenode.org IRC network.
• Bug reports and feature suggestions are tracked in the Open Development project on jira.secondlife.com.
  • Suggested patches for issues from the jira are reviewed on our code review system (see the documentation on how to use it).