3.1 Syntax

CodeBlocks treats the following functionally identical character sequences inside pre-build, post-build, or build steps as variables:

Variable names must consist of alphanumeric characters and are not case-sensitive. Variables starting with a single hash sign (#) are interpreted as global user variables (see section 3.7 for details). The names listed below are interpreted as built-in types.

Variables which are neither global user variables nor built-in types, will be replaced with a value provided in the project file, or with an environment variable if the latter should fail.