Plugin specific documentation

Plugins provide their own individual plugin specific YAML configurations, The element .bst files can specify plugin specific configuration in the config section, while sources declared on a given element specify their plugin specific configuration directly in their source declarations.

General elements

• stack - Symbolic Element for dependency grouping
• import - Import sources directly
• compose - Compose the output of multiple elements
• script - Run scripts to create output
• link - Link elements
• junction - Integrate subprojects
• filter - Extract a subset of files from another element

Build elements

• manual - Manual build element
• autotools - Autotools build element

Sources

All source plugins can be staged into an arbitrary directory within the build sandbox with the directory option. See Source class built-in functionality for more information.

• local - stage local files and directories
• remote - stage files from remote urls
• tar - stage files from tar archives
• zip - stage files from zip archives
• git - stage files from a git repository
• bzr - stage files from a bazaar repository
• patch - apply locally stored patches
• pip - stage python packages using pip

External plugins

External plugins need to be installed separately, here is a list of BuildStream plugin projects known to us at this time:

• bst-plugins-experimental

• bst-plugins-container