UnrealEngineUWP/Engine/Documentation/Source/Programming/UnrealBuildSystem/TargetFiles/TargetFiles.INT.udn

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Title: Unreal Build System Target Files
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Description:Reference for the target files used by Unreal Build System when building modules.
Version: 4.9

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The Unreal Build System makes use of **Target** files for each application UnrealBuildTool builds that get compiled into the dynamic Rules module. These files replace the old UEBuild*.cs files that were originally compiled directly into UnrealBuildTool. Each target file defines a class used by UnrealBuildtool to determine how a game or program is built.

UnrealBuildTool now retrieves the proper target for the project being built from the RulesModule.dll.

There are 2 types of target:

* **Game** - This is a target that utilizes the shared UE4 executable.
* **Program** - This is a target that is a stand-alone executable. ShaderCompileWorker, SlateViewer, and UnrealHeaderTool are this type of target.


## Target File Naming and Location

The Target file must be located in the root directory of a program or Source directory of a game and be named using the convention: [APPNAME].Target.cs

As an example, the ShaderCompileWorker program directory at \UE4\Engine\Source\Programs\ShaderCompileWorker contains the ShaderCompileWorker.Target.cs file.

Similarly, the ExampleGame Source directory located at UE4\ExampleGame|Source contains the ExampleGame.Target.cs file.

## Target File Contents

The class defined in the Target file for each game or program is derived from TargetRules (found in RulesCompiler.cs). 

The name of the class is constructed by adding the name of the tool or game followed by target. For instance, the class defined in the target file for the ShaderCompileWorker tool would be ShaderCompileWorkerTarget. The Target at the end is required. It was added to avoid name collisions with the existing *.Build.cs module rules classes, since they all get compiled into the same DLL.

UnrealBuildTool takes [APPNAME] and appends Target when requesting the build target from the Rules DLL. So, using the same example as above, when UnrealBuildTool is passed ShaderCompileWorker Win64 Development it will request ShaderCompileWorkerTarget as the TargetRules class name of interest.

### Constructor

The constructor sets the name of the application and the type of target to generate. Here is the constructor for ExampleGameTarget for comparison:
	
	public ExampleGameTarget(TargetInfo Target)
	{
		Type = TargetType.Game;
		Name = "ExampleGame";
	}

### Setup Binaries

**TargetRules::SetupBinaries()** is used to generate a list of UEBuildBinaryConfiguration instances which UnrealBuildTool will use to fill in the AppBinaries array (these are what it will generate).

### Setup Global Environment

**TargetRules::SetupGlobalEnvironment()** is used to set various build configuration settings for UnrealBuildTool for the target as well as setup the global Compile and Link environments.

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The current games do not contain this function, as the UEBuildGame class takes care of their needs by default. However, if a game needed to override these settings, it certainly can do so.
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## Example Target File

Here is the ShaderCompileWorker.Target.cs file as a complete example:

	// Copyright 1998-2015 Epic Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

	using UnrealBuildTool;
	using System.Collections.Generic;

	public class ShaderCompileWorkerTarget : TargetRules
	{
		public ShaderCompileWorkerTarget(TargetInfo Target)
		{
			Type = TargetType.Program;
			Name = "ShaderCompileWorker";
		}

		//
		// TargetRules interface.
		//

		public override void SetupBinaries(
			TargetInfo Target,
			ref List<UEBuildBinaryConfiguration> OutBuildBinaryConfigurations,
			ref List<string> OutExtraModuleNames
			)
		{
			List<string> LinkModules = new List<string>() { "Core", "ShaderCore", "RenderCore", "RHI", "WindowsTools", "ShaderCompileWorker" };
			OutBuildBinaryConfigurations.Add(
				new UEBuildBinaryConfiguration(	InType: UEBuildBinaryType.Executable,
												InModuleNames: LinkModules )
				);
		}

		public override void SetupGlobalEnvironment(
			TargetInfo Target,
			ref LinkEnvironmentConfiguration OutLinkEnvironmentConfiguration,
			ref CPPEnvironmentConfiguration OutCPPEnvironmentConfiguration
			)
		{
			// Turn off various third party features we don't need
			UEBuildConfiguration.bAllowSteamworks = false;
			UEBuildConfiguration.bAllowLive = false;
			UEBuildConfiguration.bCompilePerforce = false;

			// Currently we force Lean and Mean mode
			UEBuildConfiguration.bCompileLeanAndMeanUE = true;

			// Currently this app is not linking against the engine, so we'll compile out references from Core to the rest of the engine
			UEBuildConfiguration.bCompileAgainstEngine = false;

			// ShaderCompileWorker is a console application, not a Windows app (sets entry point to main(), instead of WinMain())
			OutLinkEnvironmentConfiguration.bIsBuildingConsoleApplication = true;

			// Disable logging, as the workers are spawned often and logging will just slow them down
			OutCPPEnvironmentConfiguration.Definitions.Add("ALLOW_LOG_FILE=0");
			OutCPPEnvironmentConfiguration.Definitions.Add("HACK_HEADER_GENERATOR=1");
			OutCPPEnvironmentConfiguration.Definitions.Add("HACK_SHADER_COMPILER_WORKER=1");
		}
	}