The Taskolib library helps to automate processes. Its main automatization unit is a sequence of steps which are executed in order or through control flow statements. The behavior of each step is defined in the Lua scripting language.

The library API is documented with Doxygen on the web page https://taskolib.github.io/taskolib/ .

The Taskolib library is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPLv2.1). Included third-party software carries additional copyright statements and licenses (which are, however, compatible with the LGPLv2.1). Please refer to the web page or to the source file data/doxygen.h for details.

The library is built with Meson/Ninja. Building is done in two stages: You start by setting up the build system with a call to Meson. All configurable options are set in this step. Then, you start the actual build with the ninja command.

To set up a build directory builddir with the default configuration and build the library in it:

  meson builddir
  ninja -C builddir

By convention, directory names starting with build or subdirectories of a build*/ folder are used.

Meson differentiates between debug and release builds at configuration time (when setting up the build directory). These are the most often used variants:

  meson --buildtype=debug builddir
  meson --buildtype=debugoptimized builddir
  meson --buildtype=release builddir

This library carries documentation embedded in the source code. Run the following tool to generate HTML documentation:

  ./tools/make-doc.py

This runs the open-source tool Doxygen and generates a web page in the directory docs/html.

To see all the possible and the active settings, change into the build directory and call meson configure. You can see some of the built-in possibilities there, like unity builds and sanitizer to use.

  meson --buildtype debug builddir

Not optimized build in builddir/ (optimized for debugging in gdb for ex.)

  meson builddir

Fully optimized build in builddir/, installs in /usr/lib and /usr/lib/include.

This can be used together with debuild to create packages, after adapting the debian/rules (not recommended, just use the existing rules). The staging directory will be transfered via DESTDIR.

(install in $HOME/???/lib)

  meson --prefix ???/somewhere builddir

Installs into the user's home directory.

To use it one has to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and CPATH (probably).

... one can call any of these:

  ninja -C builddir
  ninja -C builddir test
  ninja -C builddir install
  ninja -C builddir clean
  rm -Rf builddir