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gleam-tool

gleam-tool provides some functionality to generate some supporting files required by compiled gleam projects, that would otherwise be created through normal use of commands like gleam build.

subcommands

Section titled “subcommands”

appspec

Section titled “appspec”
Terminal window
$ gleam-tool appspec [out_path] [otp_dependencies]...

generates an application specification for a gleam project.

  • out_path: where to write the generated specification to
  • otp_dependencies (optional): space-separated list of otp applications name that the specification should declare a dependency on

entrypoint

Section titled “entrypoint”
Terminal window
$ gleam-tool entrypoint [target]

generates an application entrypoint for the specified target.

when targeting erlang, it generates and compiles an erlang module called gleam_entrypoint.beam in the current directory.

when targeting javascript, it generates a javascript file called gleam_entrypoint.mjs in the current directory.