Rebuild

Definitions

1. Recompiling a project from scratch (or from a changed state), discarding cached build artifacts to ensure the output reflects the current source. A clean rebuild (e.g., make clean && make, or gradle clean build) is often used to eliminate stale artifacts, while incremental rebuilds recompile only changed files for speed.

   In plain English: Compiling your entire project fresh to make sure everything is built from the latest code, not leftover pieces from before.

   Example: "The bug disappeared after a clean rebuild — turned out stale .o files from the old header were being linked in."

Related Terms

• Source Code
• Asset Management
• Build Chain
• Build Environment
• Build Flag
• Build Number
• Build Output
• Build Profile
• Build Server
• Build Stage
• Build Target
• Build Template
• Build Time
• Build Variable
• Code Compilation
• Compilation Pipeline
• Compile Target
• Compiled Language
• Cross-Compile