Greg wrote:
> PODS is a bit of a learning curve from CW so it will take me a bit to
> digest what you wrote. I wish there was more info on PODS to explain
> how to migrate projects from CW to PODS, the KB is very basic.
Palmsource provides some documentation, in the form of PDF manuals,
for PODS. I suggest you download them, and read them carefully.
Beyond that, you can read up on the GNU (Unix) development tools,
including gcc (cc) and make. These are in such common use that when
you get an error message you don't understand, you can do a search
with Google Groups, and very likely get the information you need.
(For your problem, I searched for "cannot specify -o with -c or -S
and multiple compilations" in just the newsgroup gnu.gcc.help.)
You can also go to www.eclipse.org and see if any of the Technical
Articles there are meaningful. :-P (Mostly, the articles are for java
programmers and programmers working on Eclipse itself.)
> I was wondering, what is the difference between a Managed Make and
> a Standard Make?
This question is answered in the "Introduction to Palm OS Developer
Suite" PDF document (Developer Suite Intro.pdf). Page 18-21.
The short answer is that "managed make" tells PODS to generate your
makefiles for you. I'll get up on the soapbox for just a sec and
say that everyone new to PODS needs this. The main problem I had
getting started with PODS is that I tried to modify the PODS build
system (including makefiles) manually, because I didn't understand
how PODS worked, and I'm used to writing my own makefiles on Unix/Linux.
So I messed up my PODS build to the point where 'make all' no longer
worked. Then I had to start completely over. :(
Later, I figured out how PODS worked well enough to get it to modify
my makefiles for me. (Big Hint: Run the Refresh function immediately
after adding new source files!) No more problems.
Jay Ts
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