Build Settings

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Premake provides an ever-growing list of build settings that you can tweak; the following table lists some of the most common configuration tasks with a link to the corresponding functions. For a comprehensive list of available settings and functions, see the Project API and Lua Library Additions.

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Specify the type of binary output (library, executable)	kind
Specify source code files	files, removefiles
Define compiler or preprocessor symbols	defines
Locate include files	includedirs
Set up precompiled headers	pchheader, pchsource
Link libraries, frameworks, or sibling projects	links, libdirs
Enable debugging information	flags
Optimize for size or speed	optimize
Add arbitrary build flags	buildoptions, linkoptions
Set the name or location of compiled targets	targetname, targetdir