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 ¯ow 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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