Maximizing Your Results with SoftBench

Understanding Projects

 

package with no transform, just modifiers, would be the X11 library to be

 

linked into an executable. A build configuration contains one or more

 

transforms and zero or more packages (which may include transforms

 

and/or other packages). A very simplified version of the actual build

 

configuration to create an executable target from C source containing

 

embedded SQL is shown in Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-4

Simplified Build Configuration, Package, and Transform Series
Choosing Between Project Build and External Build Models

SoftBench supports two build models, allowing you two ways to specify your build instructions:

With project build, you supply the necessary information to SoftBench, and SoftBench converts the build configuration and dependency information into build commands.

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