Building on a non-DevOps Code ClearCase host

Learn how to build product variants on a non-ClearCase® host.

Many organizations develop multiple variants of their products, targeted at different platforms. If ClearCase is not available for some of the platforms, you can still build all the required product variants by using either cross-development or non-ClearCase access:

• Cross-development allows you to perform a build on a supported host to produce executables for the unsupported host.
• Non-ClearCase access allows hosts on which ClearCase is not installed to access ClearCase data, using standard network file-sharing services (such as NFS).

Non-ClearCase access takes advantage of view transparency. Through automatic version-selection, a view makes any VOB appear to be a standard directory tree. Any such VOB image can be exported to a non-ClearCase host.

Developers on the non-ClearCase host can perform builds within these VOB image directory trees, using native make utilities or other local build tools. The object modules and executables produced by such builds are stored in the view used to export the VOB.

For more information about building on a non-ClearCase host, see Setting up a build on a non-ClearCase host.