File formats description

Code::Blocks projects/workspaces are described in XML files. Here are contained links to documentation for each one of them.

This information is of interest to anyone wanting to write an importer/exporter/generator for other build systems/environments and therefore add support for Code::Blocks.

• Workspace file (*.workspace)

Defines a Code::Blocks workspace (collection of projects).

• Project file (*.cbp)

Defines a Code::Blocks project.

Additional files used as of December 12, 1012 (from the merge of the [/index.php/topic,16463.0.html XML compiler branch]):

• Compiler file (compiler_*.xml)

Defines a Code::Blocks compiler interface and auto-detection routines.

• Compiler options file (options_*.xml)

Defines the options and regular expressions for a Code::Blocks compiler.

Code::Blocks also produces a couple other files (*.layout and *.depend) but they only contain state information so they are not really useful to anyone else other than Code::Blocks itself.

Mandrav 11:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)