The build system

• The build tool: Jam
  • Requirements for a build tool
  • Short overview of how Jam operates
  • Jam rules used for building Haiku
• Haiku Git Repositories
  • Getting the sourcecode
  • Sending change reviews
  • Source tree organization
  • Managing GCC and binutils updates using vendor branches
    • How to import upstream binutils changes
    • How to import upstream gcc changes
    • Comparing our code with upstream
• Haiku compilers
  • Summary of changes made to gcc for Haiku support
• The rc resource compiler
  • Introduction
  • How to install
  • Writing resource scripts
  • Big fat resources
  • Application resources
  • Compiling
  • Decompiling
  • Authors
  • rdef grammar
    • The lexer
    • The parser
    • Semantics
      • Resource names
      • Data types and type casts
      • Arrays
      • Messages and archives
      • User-defined types
      • The grammar and Bison
      • Symbol table
      • Misc remarks
  • The librdef library
  • Differences with beres/deres
    • Differences with beres
    • Differences with deres
  • History
    • Version 1.1 (December 22, 2003)
    • Version 1.0 (February 16, 2003)
  • Ye Olde To Do List
  • Work notes
• Using an IDE
  • Live Code Analysis
• HaikuPorts build-packages repository
  • Prerequisites
  • Updating
  • Container Process
  • Prepare the build-packages repository
  • Pull the repostory file and commit it