This the README file for Do178Builder
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Do178Builder is a software tool which runs on *NIX or Win32.  It helps you
to manage development projects which create airborne software, and to build
DO-178B or DO-254 documentation for those projects.  Do178Builder is written and
copyrighted by Ronald Burkey (info@birdsproject.org), but is available as free
software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  A copy of the GPL
(entitled "COPYING") should be present, but if not may be obtained from www.fsf.org.

The home page for Do178Builder is www.do-178b.org.

What's in this directory:
*.h, *.cpp		Source files.
.template.xml           A template for DO-178B projects.
.template254.xml        A template for DO-254 projects.
Do178Builder.proj	A Red Hat Source Navigator project file.  (If you don't want
			to use Source Navigator, which is an IDE, you can just
			ignore this.)
Do178Builder.wdr	A wxDesigner project.  wxDesigner is a RAD tool used to create
			the wxWidgets-based GUI.  You don't need either this file
			or wxDesigner to recompile Do178Builder, but you will want
			them if the GUI is modified.
Makefile		Makefile for *NIX.
MakefileWin32		Makefile for Win32.
Do178Builder.rc		Some nonsense thing needed to compile on Win32.
COPYING			A copy of the GPL.
graphics (directory)	Various graphics that have been incorporated into the GUI.
			They have been incorporated into the file Do178Builder_wdr.cpp
			by wxDesigner and are no longer directly needed.  They are
			retained in case drastic changes to the GUI need to be made
			at some future time.
Do178Builder.xsl	An XSL-stylesheet customization which could be used with the 
			XMLmind XSL-FO Converter program to convert DocBook XML to PDF, 
			RTF, OOXML, ODT, etc. and get something roughly equivalent to
                        what you would get running the normal Linux DocBook converter 
                        utilities.  The instructions for use or further customization 
                        are within the file itself.
MyCustomization.xsl     A further set of XSL-stylesheet customizations, which you can
                        use as "improvements" to the standard Do178Builder.xsl 
                        customized stylesheet, or else use as a starting point for
                        your own customizations.

To build Do178Builder, the GNU gcc (*NIX) or mingw32 (Win32) C++ compiler is
required.  Also, the wxWidgets GUI framework (available at www.wxwidgets.org) is
needed.

For more information, please view the documentation available at
www.do-178b.org.



