.. _using-snippets:

Using Snippets
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.. tip::

   See :ref:`built-in-snippets` for a list of snippets that are provided by
   Zephyr.

Snippets have names. You use snippets by giving their names to the build
system.

With west build
***************

To use a snippet named ``foo`` when building an application ``app``:

.. code-block:: console

   west build -S foo app

To use multiple snippets:

.. code-block:: console

   west build -S snippet1 -S snippet2 [...] app

With cmake
**********

If you are running CMake directly instead of using ``west build``, use the
``SNIPPET`` variable. This is a whitespace- or semicolon-separated list of
snippet names you want to use. For example:

.. code-block:: console

   cmake -Sapp -Bbuild -DSNIPPET="snippet1;snippet2" [...]
   cmake --build build

Application required snippets
*****************************

If an application should always be compiled with a given snippet, it
can be added to that application's ``CMakeLists.txt`` file. For example:

.. code-block:: cmake

   if(NOT snippet1 IN_LIST SNIPPET)
     set(SNIPPET snippet1 ${SNIPPET} CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
   endif()

   find_package(Zephyr ....)