EFFICIENT GENERATION OF EXECUTABLE FILE FROM PROGRAM FILES WHEN SOME OF THE PROGRAM FILES EXPRESSLY INCORPORATE OTHER PROGRAM FILES

摘要

Efficient generation of executable file from program files when some of the program files expressly incorporate other program files. In an embodiment, dependency information representing which program files (conditionally or unconditionally) incorporate other program files is generated and stored in a secondary (non-volatile) storage. When some program files are modified, the dependency information is used to identify for recompilation all the program files that incorporate any of the modified program files. The modified program files and the identified program files are recompiled and the executable file is regenerated.