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Build Package

The Build package is the official Tools package containing the (command-line) tools necessary to build applications for the Symbian platform and the Symbian platform itself. Note that Carbide has its own package.

The major tools in the Build package are: Helium - a build framework for coordinating server-based builds; the Symbian Build System v2 (SBSv2, a.k.a. Raptor) - the successor to SBSv1 (abld); and iMaker and the ROM Tools - which are used for creating device images (a.k.a. firmware).

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Contents 1 Build Package 1.1 News and Discussion 1.2 Package Contents 1.3 Package Backlog 1.3.1 Features in imgtools collection 1.3.2 Features in sbsv2 collection 1.4 Related Packages 1.5 Working with the Package 1.6 Contacts 1.7 Community

News and Discussion

• Sign-up to the Build news mailing list here. The Build package email policy is "No news is good news" so no need to worry about floods of spam.
• The discussion forum for this package is here.

Package Contents

Package Backlog

This is the backlog for the Build Package:

Features in imgtools collection

Feature	Description	FCL Date	MCL Date	Status
ROFSBUILD caching	Enable caching for ROFSBUILD to improve performance	n/a	w44	in progress
Bytepair Compression Performance	Refine the byte-pair compression algorithm to improve performance	n/a	w43	delivered
ROM Dependency Visualisation	Generate a .dot file describing the contents of a ROM	n/a	w45	in progress
MAKSYMROFS Integration to ROFSBUILD	Inline symbol generation to ROFSBUILD execution	n/a	w47	in progress
ROM Tools Linux Support	Update BUILDROM, ROMBUILD and ROFSBUILD to build and execute successfully on Linux	n/a	w49	planned
MAKSYM Integration to ROMBUILD	Inline symbol generation to ROMBUILD execution	n/a	w51	proposed
[title]	[description]	[fcl date]	[mcl date]	[status]

Features in sbsv2 collection

Feature	Description	FCL Date	MCL Date	Status
Parallel Parsing of Metadata	As a system builder I want metadata parsing to use all the processors available to my build so that the build goes faster and scales	n/a	w51	planned
System Definition v3	As a contributor to Symbian Foundation packages I want sbs to build the whole package using the Package Definition file (which is a System Definition v3 file) as its system definition file so that I don't have to do it manually or find a script and keep running it	n/a	w53	planned
TOOLS_WIN32 Platform	As a system builder I want a platform that builds windows TOOLS2 binaries regardless of the OS hosting the build, so that I can run the full build on Linux.	n/a	2010Q1	proposed
Lazy Makefile Generation	As a user of Raptor I want a build that follows another build (with no changes to metadata) to rebuild no makefiles so that I don't have to wait for metadata to be rebuilt before I can start debugging with Carbide after building	n/a	2010Q1	proposed
[title]	[description]	[fcl date]	[mcl date]	[status]

Related Packages

Build Tools package - contains the Symbian Build System v1 (abld) IDE package - contains Carbide.c++

Working with the Package

Components with a "group/bld.inf" are buildable using the following Raptor command: sbs -c tools2 -b <path/to/bld.inf>

Components with no bld.inf are usually Perl or Python scripts and therefore do not need building.

Contact the package owner if you would like to make a contribution.

Contacts

Package owner: Larry Knibb

Community

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