This is a helper for Factorio mod makers. It is a Makefile (tested only with GNU make) that automates the creation of mod packages from source, including performing some simple keyword expansion (of tokens like {{VERSION}}) in the info.json and *.lua files.

Setup

To start using this makefile for your package, you'll need to create a few very simple files:

• The file PKG_NAME should contain the name of your mod package. Create it with something like echo My-Awesome-Mod > PKG_NAME.

• The file VERSION should contain your current package version. Create it with something like echo 1.0.0 > VERSION.

  • Note: this file is optional. You can also supply the version at run-time, either by setting the environment variable VERSION, or by passing it as a make argument as in make VERSION=1.0.2.
  • Alternately, you can create the file SHORT_VERSION, which should contain a two-part version number (e.g., 0.6) -- the third part will be filled in by appending the number of commits since the last tag matching the v[0-9]*.[0-9]* wildcard.

• The file PKG_COPY should contain a list of any files or folders that should be directly copied to the output package, i.e., without any variable expansion. Note that lua files are automatically included regardless of where they are in the directory tree. Create it with something like echo locale > PKG_COPY.

  • Note: the file may contain the names separated by spaces or newlines -- make doesn't care.
  • Further note: this file is also optional -- if left out, info.json, *.md, and *.lua files will be automatically included.

Usage

Once your setup is completed, it should be as simple as typing make -- the output package will be left in the pkg directory, which will be created if necessary.

Should you wish it, you may invoke the specific target make package, and there is also a make clean that will clean up the intermediate files, should you wish to do a completely fresh repackaging.

Keyword replacements

It is possible to insert some tags into your info.json or *.lua that will get automatically replaced with the right values from your current configuration.

At present, there are two possible tags (and they are case-sensitive):

• {{MOD_NAME}} (including the braces) will get replaced with the package name, as set in the PKG_NAME file. So if your info.json says "name":"{{MOD_NAME}}", it will be replaced by "name":"My-Awesome-Mod".

• {{VERSION}} (including the braces) will get replaced with the version, given as explained above. Again, this is most useful for your info.json -- "version":"{{VERSION}}" will become "version":"1.0.2".

• {{__FILE__}} (including the braces and underscores) will get replaced by the path of the file being processed, relative to the make working directory. In most cases, this should be the plain filename, or something like subdir/file.lua. This is occasionally useful (for, e.g., logging warnings).

License

The source of factorio-mod-makefile is Copyright 2015 Octav "narc" Sandulescu. It is licensed under the MIT license, available in this package in the file LICENSE.md.

Statistics

12 'Stop' errors were encountered during the development of this tool. All of them were terminated with extreme prejudice.