IBM SC34-4499-03 Personal Computer User Manual


 
Chapter 15. Building an application: an example
This chapter uses an extended example to describe in more detail how each of the
components of the build function work together. All commands used in this example are
described in detail elsewhere in this publication. This example walks through the control
flow for a sample application, explaining what happens at each step.
These are the tasks involved in building our sample application, msgcat.exe:
Task Page
Starting build servers 183
Creating builders and parsers 184
Creating the application build tree 184
Starting the build 189
Monitoring the build 192
Building in spite of errors 193
Forcing a build of all parts 193
Finding out which parts will be built 194
Canceling a build 194
We will use a simple example build tree that looks like the following:
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