C and C++ SoftBench User's Guide

Maximizing Your Results with SoftBench
Understanding Projects
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configurations provided by SoftBench.
Build configurations are independent of projects and targets. SoftBench
ships with a basic set of build configurations. You can create new user
build configurations based on the shipped build configurations, adding
build instructions that are unique to your environment. To have your
administrator save these as shared customizations available to other
users, see "Sharing Build Configurations with Your Team" in SoftBench
Online Help.
Once you decide on build configurations (system or customized) that
work for your environment, you can use the same build configuration for
many targets, and you can further customize a build configuration for a
specific target.
A build package is a collection of build instructions that makes it easy
to use third-party libraries, utilities, or compiler directives in many build
configurations. Packages also make it easy to specify the compiler to use
for the target. Packages are similar to build configurations because they
include library and include directories, compiler options, defines, and
other information needed for using the library or utility. First, choose a
system or customized package; then include the package in all
appropriate build configurations. If the package's build instructions need
to change, you modify the package, and all build configurations which
use the package update automatically.
For example, SoftBench provides packages for Motif, X11R6, SoftBench
Encapsulator, RogueWave, and Oracle. If the requirements for building
the library change, you can modify customized packages. All build
configurations that include the package automatically update to use the
modified package.
A transform is a set of operations that run a program or shell utility
that converts a file from one formto another. For example, the C compiler
transforms a source file into an object file. SQL preprocessors transform
a source file with embedded SQL into a generated source file with all the
SQL statements expanded. The gencat utility transforms a file of
message strings into a message catalog. For more information about
these concepts, refer to the "SoftBench Key Concepts" topics on "Build
Configurations", "Build Packages", and "Transforms" available through
"Help: Overview".
Transforms are the building blocks of build packages and build
configurations. A build package contains zero or more transforms plus
modifiers that influence how transforms operate. An example of a