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| author | Pranshu Srivastava <rexagod@gmail.com> | 2019-06-05 12:39:12 +0300 |
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| committer | Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> | 2020-01-03 18:21:41 +0300 |
| commit | 4caf4578fe9cc9ec68ca57602988a436f916c4db (patch) | |
| tree | 2b2bedf09701a176898f11f184df69311b7e6c21 /doc | |
| parent | fe4f55ee13362c4253e78aad316eadfe08751a00 (diff) | |
doc: add unrepresented flags docs for configure
Added documentation to support usage of advanced features of
`configure` on Windows.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/28069
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17331
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/maintaining-the-build-files.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/maintaining-the-build-files.md b/doc/guides/maintaining-the-build-files.md index 72b2318e63a..433b387e5ee 100644 --- a/doc/guides/maintaining-the-build-files.md +++ b/doc/guides/maintaining-the-build-files.md @@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ update the build and testing process on Windows. ## configure +The `configure` script recognizes many CLI flags for special build formulas. +Many are not represented by `vcbuild` shortcuts, and need to be passed +either by: + +* Calling `python configure --XXX --YYY=PPPP` directly, followed by `vcbuild + noprojgen` +* Setting `set config_flags=--XXX --YYY=PPPP` before calling `vcbuild` + To see the help text, run `python configure --help`. Update this file when you need to update the configuration process. |