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212 Neuron C Tools Stand-Alone Use

Stand-Alone Tools

The Neuron C tools listed in Table 15 can be used

stand-alone

, meaning outside

the integrated development environment, using the command prompt or

command window only.

Table 15. Stand-Alone Tools

Description Tool Name

Neuron Assembler NAS

Neuron C Compiler NCC

Neuron Exporter NEX

Neuron Librarian NLIB

Neuron Linker NLD

Project Make PMK

All of the NodeBuilder stand-alone tools share a common command-line

technology, and thus have several aspects of use in common. These common

aspects are described in the following section,

Common Stand-Alone Tool Use

The sections following later in this appendix briefly introduce each of the tools

listed above.

Note: Users of the NodeBuilder Development Tool should not generally use the

command line tools, with the exception of the Neuron Librarian and the Project

Make Utility. The reason is that the build tools should be controlled by the

Project Make Utility, pmk.exe. Not only does this utility manage the build

process (it minimizes the number of build steps required), it also takes care of

program ID management tasks and automatic boot ID processing. You must

otherwise take care of these two important duties manually. See the

NodeBuilder FX User's Guide

for more details about the

Project Make Utility

Common Stand-Alone Tool Use

All stand-alone tools share a set of common syntax and common basic commands.

Common Syntax

If no command switches or arguments follow the name of the tool, the tool

responds with usage hints.

Example:

C:\>NAS

Tool responds:

Neuron Assembler, version 5.00.21, build 0