napi-rs/cli/docs/build.md

Build

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Build the napi-rs project

Usage

# CLI
napi build [--options]

// Programatically
import { NapiCli } from '@napi-rs/cli'

new NapiCli().build({
  // options
})

Options

Options	CLI Options	type	required	default	description
	--help,-h				get help
target	--target,-t	string	false		Build for the target triple, bypassed to cargo build --target
cwd	--cwd	string	false		The working directory of where napi command will be executed in, all other paths options are relative to this path
manifestPath	--manifest-path	string	false		Path to Cargo.toml
packageJsonPath	--package-json-path	string	false		Path to package.json
targetDir	--target-dir	string	false		Directory for all crate generated artifacts, see cargo build --target-dir
outputDir	--output-dir,-o	string	false		Path to where all the built files would be put. Default to the crate folder
platform	--platform	boolean	false		Add platform triple to the generated nodejs binding file, eg: [name].linux-x64-gnu.node
jsPackageName	--js-package-name	string	false		Package name in generated js binding file. Only works with --platform flag
jsBinding	--js	string	false		Path and filename of generated JS binding file. Only works with --platform flag. Relative to --output_dir.
noJsBinding	--no-js	boolean	false		Whether to disable the generation JS binding file. Only works with --platform flag.
dts	--dts	string	false		Path and filename of generated type def file. Relative to --output_dir
dtsHeader	--dts-header	string	false		Custom file header for generated type def file. Only works when typedef feature enabled.
noDtsHeader	--no-dts-header	boolean	false		Whether to disable the default file header for generated type def file. Only works when typedef feature enabled.
strip	--strip,-s	boolean	false		Whether strip the library to achieve the minimum file size
release	--release,-r	boolean	false		Build in release mode
verbose	--verbose,-v	boolean	false		Verbosely log build command trace
bin	--bin	string	false		Build only the specified binary
package	--package,-p	string	false		Build the specified library or the one at cwd
crossCompile	--cross-compile,-x	boolean	false		[experimental] cross-compile for the specified target with cargo-xwin on windows and cargo-zigbuild on other platform
useCross	--use-cross	boolean	false		[experimental] use cross instead of cargo
watch	--watch,-w	boolean	false		watch the crate changes and build continiously with cargo-watch crates
features	--features,-F	string[]	false		Space-separated list of features to activate
allFeatures	--all-features	boolean	false		Activate all available features
noDefaultFeatures	--no-default-features	boolean	false		Do not activate the default feature