libloot
Introduction
LOOT is a plugin load order optimisation tool for TES III: Morrowind, TES IV: Oblivion, TES V: Skyrim, TES V: Skyrim Special Edition, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Fallout 4 VR. It is designed to assist mod users in avoiding detrimental conflicts, by automatically calculating a load order that satisfies all plugin dependencies and maximises each plugin's impact on the user's game.
LOOT also provides some load order error checking, including checks for requirements, incompatibilities and cyclic dependencies. In addition, it provides a large number of plugin-specific usage notes, bug warnings and Bash Tag suggestions.
libloot provides access to LOOT's metadata and sorting functionality, and the LOOT application is built using it.
Downloads
Releases are hosted on GitHub, and snapshot builds are available on Artifactory. The snapshot build archives are named like so:
libloot-<last tag>-<revisions since tag>-g<short revision ID>_<branch>-<platform>.7z
Building libloot
Refer to .github/workflows/release.yml for the build process.
Linux
The build process assumes that you have already cloned the libloot repository, that the current working directory is its root, and that the following applications are already installed:
cmakecurlgitpip3(and therefore Python 3)cargoand the rest of the Rust toolchain (e.g. via rustup)wget
The list above may be incomplete.
CMake Variables
libloot uses the following CMake variables to set build parameters:
| Parameter | Values | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
BUILD_SHARED_LIBS |
ON, OFF |
ON |
Whether or not to build a shared libloot binary. |
RUN_CLANG_TIDY |
ON, OFF |
OFF |
Whether or not to run clang-tidy during build. Has no effect when using CMake's MSVC generator. |
You may also need to set BOOST_ROOT if CMake cannot find Boost.
Building The Documentation
The documentation is built using Doxygen, Breathe and Sphinx. Install Doxygen and Python and make sure they're accessible from your PATH, then run:
pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
sphinx-build -b html docs build/docs/html
Alternatively, you can use Docker to avoid changing your development environment, by running docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/docs:/docs/docs -v ${PWD}/build:/docs/build -v ${PWD}/include:/docs/include sphinxdoc/sphinx:4.2.0 bash to obtain a shell that you can use to run apt-get update && apt-get install -y doxygen and then the two commands above.