# Package org.gradle.platform.base

@Incubating package org.gradle.platform.base

- Related Packages
  Package
  Description
  org.gradle.platform
  org.gradle.platform.base.binary
  org.gradle.platform.base.component
  org.gradle.platform.base.plugins
- Class
  Description
  Application
  A software application.
  ApplicationBinarySpec
  A binary produced from a ``ApplicationSpec``.
  ApplicationSpec
  A specification of a `Application`.
  Binary
  A physical binary artifact, which can run on a particular platform or runtime.
  BinaryContainer
  A container for project binaries, which represent physical artifacts that can run on a particular platform or runtime.
  BinarySpec
  Represents a binary that is the result of building a component.
  BinaryTasks
  Declares the tasks to build a custom `BinarySpec` binary.
  BinaryTasksCollection
  A collection of tasks associated to a binary
  ComponentBinaries
  Declares the binaries that should be built for a custom `ComponentSpec` type.
  ComponentSpec
  A software component that is built by Gradle.
  ComponentSpecContainer
  A container of software components.
  ComponentType
  Declares a custom `ComponentSpec` type.
  DependencySpec
  A dependency onto a Gradle component.
  DependencySpecBuilder
  A builder of a `DependencySpec`.
  DependencySpecContainer
  A container for dependency specifications.
  GeneralComponentSpec
  A general purpose component specification, that can be used to represent some software component built from source and producing multiple output variants.
  InvalidModelException
  Thrown when a component model is declared in an invalid way.
  Library
  A library that can be linked into or depended on by another software element.
  LibraryBinaryDependencySpec
  A dependency onto a specific binary of a library published by a project.
  LibraryBinarySpec
  A binary produced from a ``LibrarySpec``.
  LibrarySpec
  A specification of a `Library`.
  ModelInstantiationException
  Thrown when a model element cannot be instantiated for some reason.
  ModuleDependencySpec
  A dependency onto a module.
  ModuleDependencySpecBuilder
  A builder of a `ModuleDependencySpec`.
  Platform
  The platform or runtime that a binary is designed to run on.
  PlatformAwareComponentSpec
  Defines Platform specific operations for ComponentSpecs
  PlatformContainer
  A container of `Platform`s.
  ProjectDependencySpec
  A dependency onto a library published by a project.
  ProjectDependencySpecBuilder
  A builder of a `ProjectDependencySpec`.
  SourceComponentSpec
  Represents some component whose implementation can be represented as a collection of source files, and whose other outputs are built from this source.
  ToolChain
  A set of compilers that are used together to construct binaries.
  ToolChainRegistry<P extends Platform,T extends ToolChain>
  A Provider of `ToolChain`s.
  TransformationFileType
  The type of a file of a transformation
  TypeBuilder<T>
  A TypeBuilder to configure the registration of a type.
  Variant
  Declares that a property represents a variant dimension.
  VariantComponent
  A component that has one or more mutually exclusive variants.
  VariantComponentSpec
  Represents a component spec that is made up of one or more mutually exclusive variants.