Tutorial Step 8: Building the Platform

Once you have added your feature to the platform, you can build the modified platform and verify that the feature appears in your platform.

To build the platform

1. From the Build menu in the IDE, choose Set Active Configuration, select a platform configuration, and then choose OK.

2. From the Platform menu, choose Settings.

3. Choose the Build Options tab, verify that the Enable Full Kernel Mode and Enable Images Larger Than 32MB check boxes are selected, and then choose OK.

4. From the Build menu, choose Build Platform.

   It may take as long as twenty minutes to build the OS image. You can observe the build process in the IDE. The progress of the build process is displayed on the Build tab of the Output window. When the build is complete, you see the following message: MYPLATFORM - 0 error(s), XX warning(s).

To verify that the feature appears in the platform

1. After the platform has successfully built, from the Workspace window in the IDE, choose the FeatureView tab.
2. Navigate the feature tree and verify that MyFeature appears in your platform.

You have completed this tutorial and successfully created a feature and added the feature to the platform.

See Also

Tutorial Step 7: Adding the Feature to the Platform | Tutorial: Creating a Feature and Adding It to a Platform | Platform Builder Tutorials | Platform Building | Feature Additions to a Platform

 Last updated on Wednesday, April 14, 2004

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