alien.png Compiling and building -- The concept
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When you use CA3, you use it to create MSX assembly programs / products. That means you will have to have binaries that are runnable on MSX. CA3 uses TASM to compile the sources you've created on MSX (see also at the Introduction section of this help file).
There are two ways of compiling. The first one is the compiling of one file. The second one is the building of projects. The difference between these two is that if you build a project, you just compile all the files in the project (that need to be compiled that is) after each other. Building projects should come in handy when you want to make sure you have the newest compiled binaries of every file. And it just is a lot easier than compiling each file separately.

CA3 has a really fancy looking compile window which will tell you what's happening during the compilation of one or more files.