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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toolchain</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tool.html" title="tool"/><link rel="next" href="toolsmith.html" title="toolsmith"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toolchain</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tool.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toolsmith.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toolchain"/><dt xmlns="" id="toolchain"><b>toolchain</b></dt></dt><dd><p> A collection of tools used to develop for a particular hardware
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target, or to work with a particular data format (thus ‘the Crusoe
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development toolchain’, or the ‘DocBook
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toolchain’). Often used in the context of building software on one
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system which will be installed or run on some other device; in that case
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the chain of tools usually consists of such items as a particular version
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of a compiler, libraries, special headers, etc. May also be used of
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text-formatting, page layout, or multimedia tools which render from some
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markup to a variety of production formats. Differs from
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‘toolkit’ in that the former implies a collection of
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semi-independent tools with complementary functions, while
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‘toolchain’ implies that each of the parts is a serial stage in
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a rather tightly bound pipeline. Seems to have become current in early
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1999 and 2000; now common.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tool.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toolsmith.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tool </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toolsmith</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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