IBM SC34-4499-03 manual Setting up your build tree for packaging

Setting up your build tree for packaging

When TeamConnection builds an application, the application's build tree identi®es the parts to be built and the tools to use in building it. Similarly, when you use TeamConnection for packaging the application, the build tree can de®ne the parts to be packaged and the tools to do it.

The output of a packaging step might be any of the following:

vThe application's parts gathered into a new directory structure

vThe distribution of the application using NVBridge

vThe distribution of the application using some other distribution tool

Setting up a build tree for the gather tool

To gather the parts of your application into a single directory for distribution, you create an output part whose builder calls the gather tool, and you make this output part the top level of the build tree.

For example, for the robot control application, robot.app, the build tree might look in part like this:

Figure 67. Part of the build tree for robot.app

After the application is built, the programming team needs to get it to the test team. They could extract the application, but doing a simple extract would preserve the

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