Today I created 6 new projects to run under uVision 3. Every time I had to:
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Those with complex project structures that want a more powerful build environment might be interested in Jam. http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html It's free. It's sort of like a smarter and more powerful make facility.
"Those with complex project structures that want a more powerful build environment might be interested in Jam." Looks interesting! Are you recommending this from experience, or is it just something you've seen?
I've used Jam before in a much larger environment. It takes a little bit more startup effort than make, unless you're content with the "Jamrules" out of the box. The hardest thing to get used to is the quirk of their parser than means the terminating semicolons must be separated with a space, e.g.: Target1: Depend1 Depend2 ; // ok Target2: Depend1 Depend2; // bugged This makes sense only if you're a Jam developer working on the parser and you understand that these lines are really function calls with unusual syntax and that a semicolon is a perfectly legitimate third parameter. The rest of us just get used to it. On really big projects, you tend to have each file as well as the semicolon on a separate line anyway, so you can easily add and delete from the list without worrying about which file happens to be the last one, or the list in some variable. On the bright side, Jam is much more powerful than make, extensible and customizable, smarter about dependencies, and much much better at handling projects that live in nested directory structures. I haven't yet used it with my 8051 projects and the Keil tools. That set of projects is just barely teetering within the limits of what uVision can handle.