ARM Software Development Toolkit User Guide 2.4.2. Partitions

2.4.2. Partitions

Partitions enable you to organize the various files that make up your project in a similar way to placing them in a directory structure. Partitions exist only within APM, as an organizational convenience. Your files are not copied or moved when you add them to a partition. They remain where you normally keep them.

Partitions help to control the effect of adding a file to a project. The partitions created for a project are determined by the project template. The partitions used by standard APM templates include:

Sources: Contains source files used to build the project output. Other source partitions may be added depending on the template, such as Thumb-C, ARM-C, ASM-Sources.
IncludedFiles: Contains any files included by the sources used by the project.
Objects: Contains the object files built from the sources.
SubProjects: Contains other projects that are to be used in the construction of the project output. If the project output from a sub-project is a library, the library file is built in the Libraries partition.
Libraries: Contains any libraries that are to be used by the project.
Image: Contains the project output of your build as specified in the project template.
Miscellanea: Anything else you want to add to a project.

Note

You can use other names for partitions, this list is only an example.

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