C and C++ SoftBench User's Guide

Maximizing Your Results with SoftBench
Planning Your Project
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Planning Your Project
You can use SoftBench as your project planning environment by
specifying the files of the project and their relationships even before the
files exist. Unique icons in the Files view remind you which files have yet
to be created in the file system. You can always change file lists to add,
remove, or rename files as your project actually takes shape.
First determine how you will share pieces of your project among your
team members. From this you can lay out your parent project and
subproject definitions. See “Setting Up a Project” on page 50 for more
information.
Next populate your projects with your files. You can add existing files
into your project or create new files in your editor and have them
automatically become members of the project. See “Adding Existing Files
to a Project” on page 58 and “Using Editors with Projects” on page 118
for more information.
Define your targets and how to build them. Then set up dependencies
between your source files and your targets, or between two targets that
must be build in a specific order. Refer to “Specifying Dependency
Relationships” on page 61 for details.
Now continue your development process in your SoftBench environment
where all of your tools, from editor to debugger, understand your project
files and build dependencies.
For in-depth information about using the project model in your
development process, choose "Help: SoftBench How To".