NAME

buildscript.pl - script to reprocess all or only changed parts of the project using one of Stunnix Obfuscators.

SYNOPSIS

perl buildscript.pl [ --help ] [ --verbose ..] [ --nostop ] [ --force-one-by-one ] [ --list-autoadded-files ] [ --list-absent-files ] [ --list-unhandled-files ] [ --override-input-directory ..] [ --override-output-directory ..] [ --override-state-directory ..] [ --override-symbols-subdirectory ..] [ --op build|build-and-test|rebuildall-and-test| rebuildall|clearout|clearstate|clearall|no-op] [ filenames... ]

DESCRIPTION

This is a perl script file that can be used to perform various operations on the project created in Stunnix Obfuscator Project Manager. This script can be recreated by running Stunnix Obfuscator Project Manager, then visiting Project menu and clicking on the menu item Generate buildscript - you will be prompted to enter name of file to save this script to. Also it's possible to regenerate it from command line, see documentation for generate-buildscript-from-project-file.pl in the Help menu or online. On Windows, it's possible to generate buildscript in form of bat file too (there is a separate menu item in Project menu for that).

In order to run this script, type perl buildscript.pl [arguments] (in case you've generated it as Windows .bat file - just run that file).

This script can be used to rebuild all files, rebuild only ``dirty'' files, clear all output files and/or state files produced during build process - the operation performed is specified as the value of the op commandline option. It's possible to specify the set of files to apply operation to by passing space-separated list of file names (relative to the project ``input'' directory) after all commandline arguments. There are other switches to affect the behaviour.

This script is cross-platform, it will work correctly on any computer provided that paths listed in the script are correct for your system. It's possible to edit this file by hand in order to tweak commandline options or set of files, provided Perl language syntax is respected.

This script can be thought of as a replacement for Makefile for make utility, traditionally used for building large or complex projects. It's recommended to generate such script rather than to write Makefile instead since commandlines to be written are rather complex. So the recommended approach for people who prefer writing Makefiles for their projects is to create project in Stunnix Obfuscator Project Manager, properly assign all options, export the buildscript and then use the buildscript for building the project; if necessary, changes in the commandline options and adding set of files can be performed by editing this script (though using Stunnix Obfuscator Project Manager would still be more convenient for this task too).

If this script is invoked with empty commandline, all ``dirty'' output files (for which corresponding original files are more fresh than output files) will be rebuilt.

Execution is aborted in case error occurs during processing of some file. It's possible to not abort processing in case of error by passing option --nostop.

Effectively buildscript contains names of file names (relative to Project's Input Directory) and settings used to process them, and meta settings like location of Stunnix Obfuscator and Perl interpreter and Project's Input, Output and State directories (which can be overriden from command line). Exceptions are also not embedded into buildscript, they are loaded from file list-of-symbols-for-obfuscator/user-exceptions.txt residing in Project's Input directory.

The set of files belonging to the project can be configured in Settings, For files menu. It's possible to define rules for processing files that do not belong to the project, given their filename extension, in Settings, Edit handlng of unlisted files, and these rules are also respected by buildscripts. This allows to create a ``universal'' buildscript, that will allow processing all files in any directory recursively - just create a project with no files (or remove all files from your project using Settings, For files, checking all files and directories and clicking Stop managing), define rules using Settings, Edit handlng of unlisted files based on filename extension, and invoke generated buildscript overriding Project's Input/Output/State Directories using --override-XXX-directory command line options.

It's possible to generate buildscripts from .op files (it's an internal form of Project Manager's project files) using command line using generate-buildscript-from-project-file.pl tool.

OPTIONS

--op

Specifies operation to be performed. Can be either of the following:

build: Process only those files, which were changed after their protected version was built (or for which no protected version exists). This is the default operation, it's performed when no --op option was specified at all.
build-and-test: Same as build, but also runs test command (specified in project options) if processing all files was successful. It's useful to run some testsuite or just navigate the browser to some page by using the test command.
rebuildall: Processes all files in the project, without comparing the time of the modification of input and output files.
rebuild-and-test: Same as rebuild, but also runs but test command (specified in project options) if processing of all files was successful.
clearout: Clear all output files.
clearstate: Clear all state files that were produced during building of the project - such files are typically lists of exceptions extracted automatically and mapping of original to protected symbols.
clearall: Does everything that operations clearout and clearstate do.
no-op: Does nothing. Useful with --list-autoadded-files to query various info about the project.

--list-autoadded-files

Prints list of files in the project that got their processing mode autoassigned. Use with --op no-op to prevent any operation performed with files.

--list-absent-files

Prints list of files inside input directory that are registered in the project but are missing in the filesystem. Use with --op no-op to prevent any operation performed with files.

--list-unhandled-files

Prints list of files inside input directory that are neither registered in the project nor autoadded to the project. Use with --op no-op to prevent any operation performed with files.

--verbose

Passing this option multiplie types increases level of verbosity of its output - e.g. printing file name being processed, command line being executed and so on..

--nostop

Do not abort if some error occured while processing some file.

--force-one-by-one

Forces protecting files one by one. This dramatically increases time it takes to protect the project. Use this option only for debugging obfuscator itself, to find out which of input files is causing obfuscator to abort execution.

--override-input-directory ..

--override-output-directory ..

--override-state-directory ..

--override-symbols-subdirectory ..

Override location of project's input directory, project's output directory, project's state directory or project's directory where names of symbols are stored. These command line options allow you to have several sets of project trees to be handled by a single buildscript. There is no need to override all these directories at once - you can e.g. override only project's input directory. If you've specified project's output or project's state directory as relative paths (either in project's settings or via these command line options), they will be handled correctly.

--help

Produces help on options the script supports.