[BLACKBOX] Creating EXE applications

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:49:12 -0800

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Folks,

I am creating an application for a client using the linker.
Currently I am just using DevLinker.Link with all the
modules listed in the "Fully linked redistributable part of
BlackBox" plus my application module. The generated
EXE file works as I would expect.

Now the issue is what is the best way to develop the
application (call it A) using the development environment
(call it B)?

What I have done is to copy all of B into a
new directory A and then modify A. The modifications
entail removing the menus that I don't want from A
and adding those that I do. But to see the immediate
effects of this I run everything in A which still includes
the Dev subsystem.

I don't understand how the menus appear when the
EXE is executed since the linker seems only to have
listed the names of the modules. Does this mean that
all subdirectories under (for example TextCmds) are
included in the EXE? I would think it must otherwise
the menus could not be accessed.

I have not (yet) modified the Config file to start up
my application when the EXE is executed. I assume
that is what one must do.

I would think that some how one should always work
within the B environment modifying A. Is this what
is recommended? If so then one can not see the
results of a modification to A until one relinks and
runs the EXE. Is this what everyone does?

Oh yes. Is there an automated way to obtain the
list of just those modules used by the application
(and in the correct order) so that the linker produces
the smallest possible EXE?

Your comments are desired.

-Doug Danforth

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