C and C++ SoftBench User's Guide

Maximizing Your Results with SoftBench
Understanding Projects
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package with no transform, just modifiers, would be the X11 library to be
linked into an executable. A build configuration contains one or more
transforms and zero or more packages (which may include transforms
and/or other packages). A very simplified version of the actual build
configuration to create an executable target from C source containing
embedded SQL is shown in Figure 1-4.
Figure 1-4 Simplified Build Configuration, Package, and Transform Series
Choosing Between Project Build and External Build
Models
SoftBench supports two build models, allowing you two ways to specify
your build instructions:
• With project build, you supply the necessary information to
SoftBench, and SoftBench converts the build configuration and
dependency information into build commands.