AIDL(1)

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💖 AIDL(1) — the General Commands Manual era 💖

okay bestie, so this is AIDL(1), and also the whole page is really about aidl-cpp, which is the C++ bindings generator of AIDL interfaces. yes literally that's the NAME section, it's serving name-and-one-line-description, iconic 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the whole vibe in one line, no notes:

aidl-cpp INPUT_FILE HEADER_DIR OUTPUT_FILE

three args, that's it, that's the ritual 🦋

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -I<DIR> — where to look for import statements. like, the search path. it's giving "where my imports at" 🔍
  • -d<FILE> — generate a dependency file. yes it writes one, and yes <FILE> is where it goes 💅
  • -ninja — same dependency-file energy but formatted the way ninja understands it. ninja got its own little format, obviously, main character behavior 🥷
  • INPUT_FILE — an aidl interface file. this is the one you're feeding in 🍓
  • HEADER_DIR — an empty directory where the generated headers get dropped. empty!! don't come in here with your own stuff already in it, she needs a clean canvas ✨
  • OUTPUT_FILE — the path where the generated .cpp code gets written 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read the lore, bestie:

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The Android Open Source Project. that's it. the whole squad. no cap 💜

and that's the page 🎀 it's AIDL(1) from the General Commands Manual, and the footer just says AIDL(1) right back at you — so no version number, no date, just the name echoing at the bottom like a little fairy sign-off 🧚 stay hydrated, read your manpages, mwah 💖

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