Development

File Format
Name	Development
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Development

File formats concerning compilers, interpreters, linkers, IDEs, etc.

See also: Source code, Executables

Build Automation

(see also Project below)

• Ant build file
• Apache Maven POM file
• Autotools
• Cabal
• CMake
• hpack (Haskell)
• Imakefile
• Jamfile
• Jenkinsfile
• Makefile
• Redo

Cloud platforms

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Google Cloud
• Heroku
• IBM Cloud
• Microsoft Azure Cloud

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)
• QML
• 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

• IIK (Incremental link file)
• MAP (Memory map link information)

Packaging and installation

See also specialized archive formats and the "Build Automation" and "Project" sections of this page.

• Inno Setup
  • Inno Setup ISL
  • Inno Setup Script
• Install Maker
• NSIS Script
• Quick Install Maker

Project

• APL workspace (stores a set of functions and variables comprising a program or project)
• C Sharp project (.csproj)
• 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)
• LiveMotion (.liv)
• 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)
• Visual Studio workspace (.code-workspace)
• Xcode Playground (.playground)
• Xcode Project (.xcodeproj): Mac/iOS development
• XFL (Adobe Flash Exchange Format)

Remote procedure calls

• JSON-RPC
• XML-RPC

Resource

See Resources.

Revision control systems / code repositories

• Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
• Fossil checkout database
• Fossil repository database
• Git
  • Github
• Mercurial (hg)
• Source Code Control System (SCCS)

Runtime environments

• node.js

Specialized

• Cre8or (.cr8)
• Game Maker (.gm6, .gmk)
• RBJ (Redcode oBJect)
• Tiled
  • Tiled JSON
  • Tiled TMX
  • Tiled TSX
• UltraEdit wordfile (.uew)

Uncategorized

• Buildinfo [1]
• Docker (sandboxed virtual servers)
• Ghidra
• Kubernetes (cluster orchestration)
• No Code
• SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
• XML Metadata Interchange

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