Chapter 11. Command-Line Reference

Table of Contents

11.1. Basic Invocation
11.2. Informational Options
11.3. Control Options
11.4. Build Options
11.5. General Targets
11.6. Java-specific Targets

This chapter presents full detail about how to invoke abuild from the command line. Some of functionality described here is explained in the chapters of Part III, “Advanced Functionality”.

11.1. Basic Invocation

When running abuild, the basic invocation syntax is as follows:

abuild [options] [targets]

Options and targets may appear in any order. Any argument that starts with a dash (“-”) is treated as an option. Anything else is considered to be a target.