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sdk/pkg/dartdev
asiva 5399dbf6f6 [VM/dartdev] Switch dartdev to use an AOT runtime.
- split the Dart CLI tool out of the VM into it's own embedder which
  runs in AOT mode. The pure Dart VM executable is called 'dartvm' and
  has no Dart CLI functionality in it
- the Dart CLI executable parses the CLI commands and invokes the rest
  of the AOT tools in the same process, for the 'run' and 'test'
  commands it execs a process which runs 'dartvm' to run
- 'dart hello.dart' execs the 'dartvm' process and runs 'hello.dart'
- the Dart CLI is not generated for ia32 as we are not shipping a
  Dart SDK for ia32 anymore (support to execute the 'dartvm' for ia32
  architecture is retained)
- the Dart CLI tool is not built in the internal Dart SDK builds

TEST=ci

Some performance improvement numbers
'dart format pkg/dartdev' goes from 1.17 secs to 0.22 secs
'dart doc pkg/dartdev' goes from 100.2 secs to 66.6 secs
'dart fix pkg/dartdev' goes from 19.3 secs to 14.5 secs

Change-Id: I66984a26cb2ab014b34dc1873f1f3d2884e13518
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/364202
Commit-Queue: Ben Konyi <bkonyi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Konyi <bkonyi@google.com>
2025-07-04 13:22:13 -07:00
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2023-10-26 14:13:43 +00:00
2025-04-30 14:06:44 -07:00
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Dart CLI tooling

A command-line utility for Dart development.

Usage: dart <command|dart-file> [arguments]

Global options:
-v, --verbose               Show additional command output.
    --version               Print the Dart SDK version.
    --enable-analytics      Enable analytics.
    --disable-analytics     Disable analytics.
    --suppress-analytics    Disallow analytics for this `dart *` run without changing the analytics configuration.
-h, --help                  Print this usage information.

Available commands:
  analyze    Analyze Dart code in a directory.
  compile    Compile Dart to various formats.
  create     Create a new Dart project.
  devtools   Open DevTools (optionally connecting to an existing application).
  doc        Generate API documentation for Dart projects.
  fix        Apply automated fixes to Dart source code.
  format     Idiomatically format Dart source code.
  info       Show diagnostic information about the installed tooling.
  pub        Work with packages.
  run        Run a Dart program.
  test       Run tests for a project.

Run "dart help <command>" for more information about a command.
See https://dart.dev/tools/dart-tool for detailed documentation.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to the Dart CLI tool, please start by reading the contribution guidelines for the Dart project. Then familiarize yourself with the design principles that guide this tool's UX.

Features and bugs

Please file feature requests and bugs in the Dart SDK issue tracker with label area-dart-cli.