name

This field contains the name for this rule.

It will be used as rule name (or rule name prefix) in the generated Ninja build file, so use short, capital names/numbers/underscores like "CC", "CXX", ...

Some names have special meaning in laze:

• LINK is the rule used to combine compiled source files for a given application.
• GIT_DOWNLOAD will be used for downloading source files
• GIT_PATCH will be used for applying patches on git repositories.

Example:

context:
 - # ...
   rules:
   - name: CC
   # ... possible other fields