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File path prefixed with '@' to directly include arguments from the specified file. Each argument is on its separate line. They are directly inserted in place of the @command-file argument. The argument can appear anywhere on the command line. Escaping is not supported for arguments in the command file. The file path may be absolute or relative.

E.g: @path/to/arguments.txt

Specifies the port on which the daemon should listen for incoming connections.

If the port is 0, it will be assigned by the operating system, therefore it may be random.

If not specified, the default port of 3500 will be used.

Specifies the storage directory that the build environment can use to store its files and various data.

Note that only a single daemon can be running in a given storage directory.

Flag that specifies whether or not the daemon should act as a server. A server daemon can accept incoming connections from any network addresses. A non-server daemon can only accept connections from the localhost.

Flag that specifies if the daemon can be used as a cluster for build executions.

By default, daemons may not be used as clusters, only if this flag is specified. Clusters can improve the performance of build executions by enabling distributing various tasks over a network of build machines.

Specifies the mirror directory when the daemon is used as a cluster.

The cluster mirror directory is used by executed tasks to cache and use files on the local file system. As many tasks may require the files to be present on the local file system for invoking external processes on it, it is strongly recommended to have a mirror directory for clusters.

Specifying this is not required, but strongly recommended. The directory can be any directory on the local file system. If you specify this flag, the daemon takes ownership of the contents in the directory, and may delete files in it.

Specifies an environment user parameter for the build environment.

The build environment will be constructed with the specified user parameters. The user parameters may be arbitrary key-value pairs that can be used to configure different aspects of the build environment. They are usually used to specify the properties of the machine the environment is running on. E.g. tooling install locations, version informations, etc...

Can be used multiple times to define multiple entries.

Sets the thread factor for the build environment.

The thread factor is a hint for the build environment to set the recommended number of threads when dealing with multi-threaded worker threads.

If unspecified, 0, or negative, the thread factor will be determined in an implementation dependent manner. (Usually based on the number of cores the CPU has.)

Specifies the network addresses of server daemons to which the daemon should connect to as a client.

The build daemon will attempt to connect to the specified daemons as clients. This can be useful if the daemon can act as a cluster as the server daemon can automatically use this one to participate in builds.

The connected clients can be used as clusters for build execution by using the -cluster-use-clients flag.

Specifies the location of the build system runtime.

The build system requires its distribution JAR for proper operation, as it may be necessary for some tasks to start new processes to do their work.

Under normal circumstances the build system can locate the appropriate JAR location based on the classpath of the current process. If it fails, an exception will be thrown and you might need to specify this if required.

The path will be resolved against the local file system, relative paths are resolved against the working directory of the process.

(If you ever encounter a bug in automatic resolution, please file an issue at https://github.com/sakerbuild/saker.build/issues)