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On most platforms, you compile and link your programs, and the resulting executable is the program you run. (The GNU linker produces an executable using a library named "bfd"---hence the term "bfd executable"). On Palm OS, however, this bfd executable is not, in fact, executable: its format must be changed from bfd COFF to a .prc database file, and, for all but the most trivial programs, UI resources must be bound in.
The post-linker tools are build-prc
, which reads a definition
file and various resource sources to generate a Palm OS .prc file,
and obj-res
, which converts a bfd executable into resources.
(Build-prc can now read bfd executables directly, so there is no
need to use obj-res anymore, but it is still supported for backwards
compatibility.) There are also multigen
and stubgen
,
which generate various support files.
Other miscellaneous tools include sdkfind
, which is invoked
automatically to set up appropriate include paths for the Palm OS SDK with
which you wish to build.
6.1 build-prc 6.2 multigen 6.3 stubgen 6.4 obj-res 6.5 sdkfind