User's Guide to the BuilderDialog Widget

The BuilderDialog widget allows the user to build documentation and indexes on platforms that do not have a make binary.

This is a preliminary implementation, and it is bound to change over time

The BuilderDialog is a swall widget consisting of only a menu bar.

You can access the BuilderDialog from the Tools submenu under Window toolbar menu.

BuilderDialog Menu

The BuilderDialog menus allow the user to choose from different categories of build operations.
Build
Build files that are derived from Tycho source files.
Test
Run the Tycho Tests.
Distribute
This menu choice is only present if $TYCHO/adm is present.

Build Menu

Check Files
Check the Tycho installation and list what files need to be updated.
Full
Do a Full build; takes about 10 minutes The Full build performs most of the operations below.
The Full build takes a long time because it creates the Itcl HTML documentation, then creates the code index from the Itcl HTML documentation, and then recreates the Itcl HTML documentation using the code index.
'make all'
Get the latest sources from version control and create tclIndex files. Full does not perform this operation, since it requires a make binary.
Glimpse
Build the Glimpse database. Full does not perform this operation, since it requires the glimpseindex binary.
Itcl HTML docs
Build the Itcl HTML docs; takes about 9 minutes
Indices Only
Build only the Tycho Concept and Code Indices
Class Diagram Only
Build only the Class Diagram. See the ItclClassList documentation for the way to build custom class diagrams.
Tcl extensions
Build the Tcl Extensions. The Full menu choice does not perform this operation as it requires a make binary, a C compiler, Java JDK1.1.1 and the Tcl sources.

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