2. Building the Application

Note

As mentioned in fox.py it is recommended to use one of the shell scripts to interact with the repository, as these activate the correct build environment and prepare the PATH variable before starting the build process. If these shell scripts are not used to call the build tool the following steps are required:

  • activating the correct environment

  • make all tools available in PATH

  • the current working directory must be the repository root

  • instead of .\fox.ps1 waf <some-command> use python3 tools/waf <some-command>

  1. Open a terminal and change into a checkout of the foxbms repository

  2. Configuration of the project

    .\fox.ps1 waf configure

  3. Now all build variants are available, e.g., to build the binaries (build_app_embedded) and the documentation (build_docs):

    .\fox.ps1 waf build_app_embedded build_docs

    Waf commands can be concatenated and are executed in the order of their appearance.

For a complete list of available Waf commands see waf.