imake Files

An Imakefile is a machine-independent description of the make targets you want to build. In the first step of the build process, the imake tool generates a Makefile from each Imakefile, by selecting the configuration files with dependencies appropriate to your target system. This has the advantage that the Imakefile is a machine-independent description of the targets you want to build and is thus portable.

If files are altered they must be rebuilt. For the imake tool within the ChorusOS operating system, only dependencies between source and binary files are taken into account when altered files are rebuilt.