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A build tree is a simplified version of the build object model, showing the dependencies
that the parts in an application have on one another. If you change the relationship of
one part to another, the build tree changes accordingly. Figure 45 shows a build tree for
the hello application:
In this simple application, hello.c is compiled to create hello.obj, which in turn is linked
to create hello.exe. The build tree shows that hello.exe is the parent of hello.obj, which
in turn is the parent of hello.c. To build the entire application, you request to build
hello.exe.
Just as the parts that make up an application are versioned, the relationships between
these parts are versioned. Thus, more than one version of the build tree can exist. For
example, Figure 46 on page 135 shows two different versions of the same build tree:
Figure 45. The build tree for the hello application
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