Command-Line Tools
Microsoft® Platform Builder includes a set of tools for defining a development environment, building source code, making an operating system (OS) image, and transferring files to a target device. If you build a platform from the command prompt build window, you call many of these tools directly. If you build a platform from the Platform Builder integrated development environment (IDE), the IDE uses these tools to create, download, and debug your platform.
**Note **The IDE and command-line environments are independent of each other. Environment variables that you set in one environment may have a different setting in the other environment. Do not combine IDE and command-line methods when you build a platform.
The following table shows the command-line tools and their functions.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| Build Demo tool (Blddemo.bat) | Calls all tools necessary to create Microsoft Windows® CE–based OS features, generate source code, copy files to a release directory, and make a Windows CE–based OS image. |
| Build Release Directory tool (Buildrel.bat) | Copies all modules and files required to build the OS image in a common release directory. |
| Build tool (Build.exe) | Creates executable files for the target device. |
| Catalog Utility (Pbcec.exe) | Adds and removes Catalog feature files (.cec) from the Catalog, and lists the Catalog contents. |
| CeBackup tool (Cebackup.exe) | Creates backup copies of Windows CE–based libraries. |
| Cesysgen Batch File (Cesysgen.bat) | Specifies the Windows CE–based modules and features for the target device. |
| Createmui Tool (Createmui.bat) | Creates new resource files for the Multilingual User Interface. |
| Cvrtbin Tool (Cvrtbin.exe) | Converts read-only memory (ROM) files from binary (.bin) format to SRE or NBX (.nb0) format. |
| fMerge Tool (fmerge.exe) | Combines all existing binary image builder (.bib) files into one .bib file, and all registry (.reg) files into one .ini file. |
| Keyboard Layout Generator Tool(Kbdgen.exe) | Produces Windows CE Input Language and Device Layout source files from a Windows XP keyboard layout dynamic-link library (.dll) file. |
| Load CEPC tool (Loadcepc.exe) | Loads an OS image onto an x86-based target device, such as a Windows CE PC-based hardware development platform (CEPC). |
| Make Binary Image tool (Makeimg.exe) | Creates an OS image. |
| Master Build tool (Cebuild.bat) | Creates the Windows CE–based modules and features and builds source code for each project in a platform. |
| Memory Usage tool (Memtool.exe) | Displays information on kernel memory usage. |
| Readlog Tool (Readlog.exe) | Converts CELog (.clg) files into text (.txt) format. |
| Set Environment Variable tool (Setenv.bat) | Sets customized developer environment variables. Used by Wince.bat; do not call this tool directly. |
| Sysgen tool (Sysgen.bat) | Creates the Windows CE–based modules selected in Cesysgen.bat by linking the features specified in Cesysgen.bat. |
| Sysgenplatform Tool (Sysgenplatform.bat) | Links the files in your platform during the Sysgen phase of the build process. |
| Viewbin Tool (Viewbin.exe) | Displays information about the contents of an OS image. |
| Windows CE Build Environment tool (Wince.bat) | Sets up the Windows CE build environment. |
| Windows CE Console Debug Shell tool (Cesh.exe) | Downloads raw binary format (.rbf) files to a target platform. |
See Also
Platform and OS Directories | Platform Builder Reference
Last updated on Friday, October 08, 2004
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