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The Makefile spec

To make running and building services from source easier, almost all software components in the ASE framework adhere to the Makefile spec highlighted below. When a service adheres to this spec, the following make targets are exposed and can be run from the root of a component source folder:

  • make build: build a component from source
  • make start: build and start a component from source
  • make clean: clean up a build and all auxilliary files
  • make test: run all tests

For every software component individually, it is marked if they adhere to this Makefile spec.

Runtime and buildtime arguments​

To pass runtime and buildtime arguments to your make target, use the reserved runargs and buildargs keywords:

# Start in debug mode
make start runargs="-debug"

# Build for a specific architecture
make build buildargs="-arch=arm64"

# Build for a specific architecture and start in debug mode
make start buildargs="-arch=arm64" runargs="-debug"