OpenMake Meister

Generating Build Scripts

A new build script, called a Build Control File, can be generated just prior to executing the build.  By updating your build script, you are guaranteed that changes to Targets and Projects are captured in the build.  Something as simple as refactoring within the Eclipse IDE may change the underlying directory structures of packages and names of source.  Regenerating your build script will catch these changes without you having to address them in a manual way each time a build error occurs.

A program called bldmake performs the generation of the build script.  It uses the Knowledge Base metadata to perform the script generation.  Target information is combined with the Build Service information to create the script. The Build Method provides the build script formatting. 

Before executing a Build, you must define a Build Project and create a Target.  Refer to the Configuring Your Build Project and Creating and Managing Targets section of this guide to prepare you for executing your Builds.

Note:  This guide will review the process that is used to manage builds.  It will cover the automatic generation of your build scripts based on pre-defined or custom Build Services and Targets  and the execution of the build itself.  Following is a list of all options that can be passed to the bldmake program.  Options can be passed at the command line

or through the Public and Private Workflows.  To pass options from a Workflow follow the steps in Table BD-1.

Table BD-1 Using the Workflow to set options