The CodeWarrior IDE provides flexible facilities for creating project files that use sophisticated build rules. This section discusses how to construct complex project files that contain other projects or different kinds of build-target code. These types of projects allow you to create powerful build hierarchies for your software.

For example, you can set up a complex project that contains build targets for both shipping and debugging versions of your software. By switching between these build targets, the IDE generates different versions of the software during the development process. Each of these build targets can have its own settings. For example, the debugging build target could have optimizations disabled and debugging information enabled, while the shipping build target could have code optimizations enabled.

This section discusses the following topics:

• What is a Build Target?
• What is a Subproject?
• What is a Design?
• Strategy for Creating Complex Projects
• Creating a New Build Target
• Changing a Build Target's Name
• Changing a Build Target's Settings
• Setting the Current Build Target
• Creating Build-Target Dependencies
• Assigning Files to Build Targets
• Creating Subprojects Within Projects