Edje Compiler

The Edje Compiler is in charge of creating your Edje interface files, by compiling your EDC code, and compressing it alongside the images and fonts into a single ready-to-use file.

The compiler will normally be included inside your distribution's edje package under the edje_cc (compiler) name alongside the decompiler, named edje_decc.

Using the Compiler

Example file structure

Usually you will want different folders for images and code snippets, since complex interfaces often use a big number of images and small files.

theme/
theme/main.edc
theme/images
theme/images/button.png
theme/edcs
theme/edcs/button.edc
theme/fonts
theme/fonts/Vera.ttf

Example command

Assuming we want to compile the main.edc and that we located inside "theme" on the example file structure, the command would look like this:

edje_cc -id images -fd fonts main.edc theme.edj

Which in generic terms minds:

edje_cc [OPTIONS] input_file.edc [output_file.edj]

This will create a file named theme.edj inside the "theme" folder, all you have to do now is load it into your program?.

Compiler Options

We can also use the compiler to override some of the settings in our [Edje Data Collection | EDC]] file.

edje_cc -h

-id directory	Add a directory to look in for relative path images
-fd directory	Add a directory to look in for relative path fonts
-no-lossy	Do NOT allow images to be lossy
-no-comp	Do NOT allow images to be stored with lossless compression
-no-raw	Do NOT allow images to be stored with zero compression (raw)
-min-quality VAL	Do NOT allow lossy images with quality < VAL (0-100)
-max-quality VAL	Do NOT allow lossy images with quality > VAL (0-100)
-Ddefine_val=to	CPP style define to define input macro definitions to the .edc source

De-compilation

One of the greatest sources of knowledge will be other's people source code, to access it, you will need to decompile the Edje binary file:

edje_decc theme.edj

Unless a exception is triggered, this will generate the original theme's file structure with sources, images and fonts, alongside a "build.sh" file (which you should control before running) with the correct build command.