Delphi IDE Project “Clean”Command — What does it do?
Running Delphi 2007 (and probably other versions as well, I'm guessing), if I right-click on a project in the Project Manager (either EXE of BPL in this case), there is a "Clean" command above Compile and Build. What exactly does it do? To "clean" a build means to delete all intermediate and output files generated by the compiler. Some compilers or IDEs also have a "clean & build" or "rebuild all" option which essentially performs a clean, followed by a build. When you rebuild an existing project, compilers generally only rebuild files it determines are changed or new. This is, of course, to