Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R3-1) - Manual (Page 236)

L-force | PLC Designer
Menu Commands sorted by Categories
234 DMS 4.1 EN 03/2011 TD29

12.5.2 Build
Symbol:
Default Shortcut:
This command (category 'Build') starts the build process of the currently active
application. This means that all objects belonging to the application will be
syntactically checked. Notice that no compilation code will be generated like it will be
done when you are going to login resp. to download an application! The build process
is done automatically before each log-in with changed application program.
The syntactical check being accomplished, any error messages or alerts (warnings) will
be displayed within the message view in category "Build". If the number of
errors/warnings exceeds 500, all further messages will be skipped and a special error
message will inform about this situation. Commands of category "Message View" are
available for navigating between messages and messages and source code.
If the program has not been changed since the last build-process, and no errors were
detected, it will not be built again and the message "The application is up to date" will
be displayed in the message window. If you nevertheless want to get the syntactical
checks done again, please use command Rebuild.
Note: The currently used compiler version is defined in the Project Settings, category
Compile options.
12.5.3 Rebuild
This command (category 'Build') starts the build process for the currently active
application, even if it had been built before without detected errors.
Note: The currently used compiler version is defined in the Project Settings, category
Compile options.
12.5.4 Generate code
This command, which by default is part of the 'Build' menu, allows to compile the
currently active application just for test purposes. A code generation run will be done
like by default is done when logging in with the application. However no code will be
downloaded and no compile info file will be created in the project directory. Thus you
can check for any detected compilation errors before going online with an possibly
incorrect code.