MPLAB Pre and Post Build Options

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Tips and tricks to help speed up your project development
Today's topic: How to have Pre and Post Project Build Options Executions.
Have you ever had the need or do you have the need before or after a project build to:

• manage directories across the network on hard drives?
• move some files around?
• process files for an executable?
• execute batch files pre or post the project build?

or

• execute shell commands?

Well, today, we'll gonna show you how:
Here we have an open MPLAB project (MPLAB version 8.14)
Now, let's say I want to pre process some files, move some files around before I do a build and after I want to do some clean-up to another directory and move the file to my build directory to another place in my hard disk.
How do I do that?
I click on:

Project -> Build Options -> Project

. Custom Build is the tab I want to select. And there I have two choices:

• a pre build setup

and logically

• a post build setup step

If I click these boxes, all I need do is provide a path to the files or the batch file that I want to execute pre or post build of my MPLAB project.
Pretty simple but pretty useful!
I hope you've enjoined this MPLAB minute and we'll see you soon for the next one.
Have a good day!