Building Your Application

Building your application means building all files in the project into an application, an EXE file (or a DLL). Use the Build command on the Build menu to build the files in the active project into an exe (or DLL) file. Executables can be run outside of the ATEasy development environment.  The Build command compiles only the files that have changed since the last build. (To build all files into the project regardless of whether they have been changed, use Rebuild All.)

By default, the exe file that is generated by the Build command has the same name and location as the project (prj) file. You can change the default name and location of the EXE file in the Project Properties dialog. You can also change the name of the exe file after it is generated. (For more information about Project Properties, see Setting Project Properties.) You can then put the compiled program into production for use by other test engineers and technicians.

When you build a project, if your code has compiler errors you can use the Show Error command on the Build menu to go to the line of code containing the first error and show the error message in the status bar. You can correct this error and build the project again, then use Show Error to go to the next error. If you need to stop the build, use the Stop Check/Build command on the Build menu.

For Building DLL, please refer to ATEasy DLL.