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Output File Formats

Supported file formats - .exe and .dll

Each project compiles into a single file (.dll, .so or .exe), or to multiple files of the same file type with one output file for each source file (.dll, .so, .exe, .int, or .gnt). As well as an .lbr file, which contains a collection of .int and .gnt files on Windows, you now can use a .dll as the container for application components.

Building to multiple output files

Each project compiles into a single file (.dll, .so or .exe), or to multiple files of the same file type with one output file for each source file.

Instead of an .lbr file, which contained a collection of .int and .gnt files on Windows, you now use a .dll as the container for application components.

Your application can consist of multiple projects, each one building a single output file, with the projects linked together so that they can access each other. This is how you link to files outside of your project:

Click File > New > Other.
Expand General and click File.
Enter the name to use for the linked resource. You can enter an alias.
Click Advanced.
Select Link to file in the file system and browse to the file to link. You can also click Variables and define a path variable, so that you can link to files using a relative path.