Architecture overview

There are two main types of components in leafbuild:

• The ones that help produce a LfBuildsys
• The ones that consume the LfBuildsys

Producers

The components that help produce the LfBuildsys are called producers. They all work together, and they are:

leafbuild-ast

Holds the ast structures produced by the leafbuild-parser. Further described in leafbuild-ast.

leafbuild-parser

Holds the logic to parse input build.leaf files and produces leafbuild-ast structures. Further described in leafbuild-parser

leafbuild-interpreter

Interprets the leafbuild-ast structures produced by leafbuild-parser and outputs the LfBuildsys. This is where most of the magic happens. Further described in leafbuild-interpreter

All the middle layers

Middle layers are quite a complicated thing to explain, so you can find more about them here

Consumers

The components that consume the LfBuildsys are called consumers.