User`s guide

3 Code Generation and the Build Process
3-2
Introduction
The Real-Time Workshop simplifies the process of building application
programs. One of the Real-Time Workshop’s features is automatic program
building, which provides a standard means to create programs for real-time
applications in a variety of host environments. It does this in a uniform and
controlled manner, yet is customizable to different applications.
Automatic program building uses the
make utility to control how the program
is built and an M-file to create a customized makefile (the description file
referenced by the
make utility) from a customizable template.
Chapter 2 introduced the build process and template makefiles. This chapter
discusses these concepts in more detail. Topics included are:
• Automatic program building
• The Real-Time Workshop user interface
• Configuring generated code
• Customizing template makefiles
• Generic real-time template makefiles