Feature Management Options Overview
A feature is a section of Symbian platform API and its underlying
implementation, which is used to accomplish one or more useful tasks. Feature
management enables the process of excluding or including features from a build.
The BUILDROM
tool uses the -fm
option and
generates a features.dat file. This file contains details of the
features included or excluded from a build at run time. The
features tool generates this
.dat file by acting on a
feature manager database XML file. The feature manager database XML file maintains a
master record of all features on the device.
You can use keywords to include or exclude features from a ROM build. The
following feature-related keywords help in inclusion or exclusion of features
from the build:
-
FEATURE: Use this keyword to include a feature in the
ROM image to be generated. For details of this keyword, see
FEATURE.
-
EXCLUDE FEATURE: Use this keyword to exclude a feature
in the ROM image to be generated. For details of the keyword, see
EXCLUDE_FEATURE.
For details on excluding features from the ROM image, refer to
Excluding Features from the ROM.