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6. Post-linker and other tools

On most platforms, you compile and link your programs, and the resulting executable is the program you run. (The GNU linker produces an executable using a library named "bfd"---hence the term "bfd executable"). On Palm OS, however, this bfd executable is not, in fact, executable: its format must be changed from bfd COFF to a .prc database file, and, for all but the most trivial programs, UI resources must be bound in.

The post-linker tools are build-prc, which reads a definition file and various resource sources to generate a Palm OS .prc file, and obj-res, which converts a bfd executable into resources. (Build-prc can now read bfd executables directly, so there is no need to use obj-res anymore, but it is still supported for backwards compatibility.) There are also multigen and stubgen, which generate various support files.

Other miscellaneous tools include sdkfind, which is invoked automatically to set up appropriate include paths for the Palm OS SDK with which you wish to build.

6.1 build-prc
6.2 multigen
6.3 stubgen
6.4 obj-res
6.5 sdkfind