To compile, assemble, link, or perform some other programming task with the CodeWarrior command-line tools, type a command at a command line's prompt. This command specifies the tool you want to run, what options to use while the tool runs, and what files the tool should operate on.
The form of a command to run a command-line tool is listed below:
tool [@response_file]
where tool is the name of the CodeWarrior command-line tool to invoke, options is a list of zero or more options that specify to the tool what operation it should perform and how it should be performed, and files is a list of files zero or more files that the tool should operate on.
response_file is used to insert command-line arguments from a file.
The response file is parsed such that arguments are separated by whitespace except where surrounded by quote marks. Whitespace followed by a pound character ('#') is used to indicate the rest of the line is a comment. Use '\#' in a response file if an argument actually starts with '#'. Response files cannot be nested recursively."
The CodeWarrior command-line tools are:
The options and files you should specify, depends on what operation you want the tool to perform.
The tool then performs the operation on the files you specify. If the tool is successful it simply finishes its operation and a new prompt appears at the command line. If the tool encounters problems it reports these problems as text messages on the command-line before a new prompt appears.
Scripts that automate the process to build a piece of software contain commands to invoke command-line tools. For example, the make tool, a common software development tool, uses scripts to manage dependencies among source code files and invoke command-line compilers, assemblers and linkers as needed, much like the CodeWarrior IDE's project manager.