Development
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File formats concerning compilers, interpreters, linkers, IDEs, etc.
See also: Source code, Executables
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Build Automation
(see also Project below)
Cloud platforms
Compiling
- BSC (Browser code file)
- IDB (State file)
- MIDL (Microsoft Interface Definition Language)
- ODL (Object Description Language)
- SBR (Visual Studio source browser intermediate file)
Debug
- Core dump
- GDB (GNU debugger file)
- Precompiled header file (.gch, .pch)
- Visual Studio PDB (Program debug database)
Interface
See also Resources.
- Nib file (Mac OS X development; windowed interfaces) (.nib)
- Storyboard file (iOS development) (.storyboard)
- Xib file (Mac OS X / iOS development; replaced Nib files) (.xib)
Intermediate
- Apple framework (.framework: OS X or iOS)
- LIB (Microsoft style) (used with Microsoft compilers for MS-DOS)
- LIB (Unix-style) (Static library file, a variant of the UNIX ar format)
- Object file format (.o, .obj)
- Precompiled Header (.pch)
- Relocatable Object Module Format
- SREC (.s19, .sre, .srec, .s)
- Turbo Pascal Unit (.tpu)
For bytecode formats, see Executables#Virtual machine code.
Linking
Packaging and installation
See:
- Archiving#Program/App/Applet/Installer specialized archive formats
- The "Build Automation" and "Project" sections of this page
Project
- APL workspace (stores a set of functions and variables comprising a program or project)
- Dev-Cpp project (.dev)
- Developer Studio project (.dsp)
- Developer Studio workspace (.dsw)
- FLA (Macromedia Flash project file)
- Geany project (.geany)
- IntelliJ Idea module (.iml)
- IntelliJ Idea project (.ipr)
- IntelliJ Idea Website (.iws)
- UltraEdit project file (.prj, pui)
- VisualBasic project (.vbp, .vbproj)
- Visual Studio IntelliSense Database File (.sdf)
- Visual Studio No Compile Browser File (.ncb)
- Visual Studio project file (.vcproj, .vcxproj, .vdproj)
- Visual Studio Solution file (.sln)
- Visual Studio Solution Options file (.suo)
- Xcode Playground (.playground)
- Xcode Project (.xcodeproj): Mac/iOS development
Remote procedure calls
Resource
See Resources.
Revision control systems / code repositories
- Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
- Git
- Mercurial (hg)
- Source Code Control System (SCCS)
Runtime environments
Specialized
- Game Maker (.gm6, .gmk)
- RBJ (Redcode oBJect)
- UltraEdit wordfile (.uew)
Uncategorized
Links
- A sketch of an architecture-independent object-code format
- Somebody's "How To Make Money With Apps" article (that, unintentionally, gives insights into why smartphone apps suck so much these days)
- Band releases album as Linux kernel module
- C++ links: executables
