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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<refentry id="flatpak-build">
<refentryinfo>
<title>flatpak build</title>
<productname>flatpak</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Alexander</firstname>
<surname>Larsson</surname>
<email>alexl@redhat.com</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>flatpak build</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>flatpak-build</refname>
<refpurpose>Build in a directory</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>flatpak build</command>
<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTION</arg>
<arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg>
<arg choice="opt">COMMAND <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">ARG</arg></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
Runs a build command in a directory. <arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg>
must have been initialized with <command>flatpak build-init</command>.
</para>
<para>
The sdk that is specified in the <filename>metadata</filename> file
in the directory is mounted at <filename>/usr</filename> and the
<filename>files</filename> and <filename>var</filename> subdirectories
are mounted at <filename>/app</filename> and <filename>/var</filename>,
respectively. They are writable, and their contents are preserved between
build commands, to allow accumulating build artifacts there.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-h</option></term>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Show help options and exit.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-v</option></term>
<term><option>--verbose</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Print debug information during command processing.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--ostree-verbose</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Print OSTree debug information during command processing.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-r</option></term>
<term><option>--runtime</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Use the non-devel runtime that is specified in the application metadata instead of the devel runtime.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-p</option></term>
<term><option>--die-with-parent</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Kill the build process and all children when the launching process dies.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--bind-mount=DEST=SOURCE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Add a custom bind mount in the build namespace. Can be specified multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--build-dir=PATH</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Start the build in this directory (default is in the current directory).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--share=SUBSYSTEM</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SUBSYSTEM</arg> must be one of: network, ipc.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--unshare=SUBSYSTEM</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SUBSYSTEM</arg> must be one of: network, ipc.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--socket=SOCKET</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Expose a well-known socket to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SOCKET</arg> must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio, system-bus, session-bus,
ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent, inherit-wayland-socket.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nosocket=SOCKET</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't expose a well-known socket to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SOCKET</arg> must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio, system-bus, session-bus,
ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent, inherit-wayland-socket.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--device=DEVICE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Expose a device to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">DEVICE</arg> must be one of: dri, input, usb, kvm, shm, all.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nodevice=DEVICE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't expose a device to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">DEVICE</arg> must be one of: dri, input, usb, kvm, shm, all.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--allow=FEATURE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow access to a specific feature. This updates
the [Context] group in the metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FEATURE</arg> must be one of:
devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus,
per-app-dev-shm.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para><para>
See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-finish</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for the meaning of the various features.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--disallow=FEATURE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Disallow access to a specific feature. This updates
the [Context] group in the metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FEATURE</arg> must be one of:
devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus,
per-app-dev-shm.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--filesystem=FILESYSTEM[:ro|:create]</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application access to a subset of the filesystem.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FILESYSTEM</arg> can be one of: home, host, host-os, host-etc, xdg-desktop, xdg-documents, xdg-download,
xdg-music, xdg-pictures, xdg-public-share, xdg-templates, xdg-videos, xdg-run,
xdg-config, xdg-cache, xdg-data, an absolute path, or a homedir-relative
path like ~/dir or paths relative to the xdg dirs, like xdg-download/subdir.
The optional :ro suffix indicates that the location will be read-only.
The optional :create suffix indicates that the location will be read-write and created if it doesn't exist.
This option can be used multiple times.
See the "[Context] filesystems" list in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-metadata</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details of the meanings of these filesystems.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nofilesystem=FILESYSTEM</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Remove access to the specified subset of the filesystem from
the application. This overrides to the Context section from the
application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FILESYSTEM</arg> can be one of: home, host, host-os, host-etc, xdg-desktop, xdg-documents, xdg-download,
xdg-music, xdg-pictures, xdg-public-share, xdg-templates, xdg-videos,
an absolute path, or a homedir-relative path like ~/dir.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--with-appdir</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Expose and configure access to the per-app storage directory in <filename>$HOME/.var/app</filename>. This is
not normally useful when building, but helps when testing built apps.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--add-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Add generic policy option. For example, "--add-policy=subsystem.key=v1 --add-policy=subsystem.key=v2" would map to this metadata:
<programlisting>
[Policy subsystem]
key=v1;v2;
</programlisting>
</para><para>
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--remove-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Remove generic policy option. This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--env=VAR=VALUE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Set an environment variable in the application.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--unset-env=VAR</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Unset an environment variable in the application.
This overrides the unset-environment entry in the [Context]
group of the metadata, and the [Environment] group.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--env-fd=<replaceable>FD</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>
Read environment variables from the file descriptor
<replaceable>FD</replaceable>, and set them as if
via <option>--env</option>. This can be used to avoid
environment variables and their values becoming visible
to other users.
</para><para>
Each environment variable is in the form
<replaceable>VAR</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable>
followed by a zero byte. This is the same format used by
<literal>env -0</literal> and
<filename>/proc/*/environ</filename>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--own-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application to own the well-known name NAME on the session bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--talk-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application to talk to the well-known name NAME on the session bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--system-own-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application to own the well-known name NAME on the system bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--system-talk-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application to talk to the well-known name NAME on the system bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--persist=FILENAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
If the application doesn't have access to the real homedir, make the (homedir-relative) path
<arg choice="plain">FILENAME</arg> a bind mount to the corresponding path in the per-application directory,
allowing that location to be used for persistent data.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--sdk-dir=DIR</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Normally if there is a <filename>usr</filename> directory in the build dir, this is used
for the runtime files (this can be created by <option>--writable-sdk</option> or <option>--type=runtime</option> arguments
to build-init). If you specify <option>--sdk-dir</option>, this directory will be used instead.
Use this if you passed <option>--sdk-dir</option> to build-init.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--readonly</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Mount the normally writable destination directories read-only. This can
be useful if you want to run something in the sandbox but guarantee that
it doesn't affect the build results. For example tests.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--metadata=FILE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Use the specified filename as metadata in the exported app instead of
the default file (called <filename>metadata</filename>). This is useful
if you build multiple things from a single build tree (such as both a
platform and a sdk).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--log-session-bus</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Log session bus traffic. This can be useful to see what access you need to allow in
your D-Bus policy.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--log-system-bus</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Log system bus traffic. This can be useful to see what access you need to allow in
your D-Bus policy.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>
<command>$ flatpak build /build/my-app rpmbuild my-app.src.rpm</command>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-init</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-finish</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-export</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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