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authorJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2019-05-20 00:59:20 +0300
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2019-05-20 23:38:13 +0300
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Generators can have extra target dependencies. Closes #4131.
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- `arguments` a list of template strings that will be the command line
arguments passed to the executable
+- `depends` is an array of build targets that must be built before this
+ generator can be run. This is used if you have a generator that calls
+ a second executable that is built in this project. Available since 0.51.0
- `depfile` is a template string pointing to a dependency file that a
generator can write listing all the additional files this target
depends on, for example a C compiler would list all the header files