abld
The abld.bat
batch file is used to control all aspects
of building a project. It is created in the current directory by the
bldmake
tool from a component description file
bld.inf
.
The syntax reference for this tool exhaustively lists all of the
possible build operations which can be performed using abld
. The
tool's flexibility obscures the fact that most developers will only need to use
two commands: one for cleaning up all files created in a previous build, and
another for building the current project.
Cleaning removes all the intermediate files created during compilation, and all the executables and import libraries created by the linker. The simplest invocation of this operation deletes the files for all platforms, and projects belonging to the component.
> abld clean
It is also possible to specify the platform and build variant to be cleaned.
abld
builds projects based on the makefiles created by
bldmake
from the component information file and project
files.
The simplest invocation of this command builds the project for all possible build variants:
> abld build
However building for a platform can take some time, and it is usual to only specify the platform required. For example, to build the debug version on the WINSCW platform specify:
> abld build winscw udeb
or to build the release version for ARMV5 use:
> abld build armv5 urel
The build
command combines the other abld
commands: export
, makefile
, library
,
resource
, target
and final
, which are
carried out in turn.