Why rebuild modules?

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Lordfire(Posted 2005) [#1]
A newbie question. Why rebuild modules? What advantage does it give me? Should I rebuild the modules after updating my Mac with Xcode 2.2?


Perturbatio(Posted 2005) [#2]
The main reason to rebuild the modules is when you yourself have changed them, or added a new one.

But I suppose that if there were a flaw in the old XCode compiler that was fixed in the new then recompiling the existing mods may be useful.

But most of the time you do not need to rebuild.


Grey Alien(Posted 2005) [#3]
do you need to rebuild after doing a sync mod with a new version?


Robert(Posted 2005) [#4]
No, you don't need to rebuild after a sync mod.

A newbie question. Why rebuild modules? What advantage does it give me?


The build modules option is primarily there for people who want to write their own modules. However, rebuilding the BRL & Pub modules is useful if you need to debug problems inside the module functions (since the pre-built modules that come with BlitzMAX have debugging information which is only applicable to the machine that they were built on).

For normal use however, it is not necessary to rebuild the modules.