About Updating an Application (Visual LISP IDE)

If you change just a small piece of your application's AutoLISP source code, you can have Visual LISP rebuild your application VLX file while compiling only the updated files.

Note: The Visual LISP IDE is available on Windows only.

Visual LISP rebuilds the application based on the information contained in the application make (PRV) file, and automatically compiles any application source files if:

Note: If you change application options (for example, from Standard compile mode to Optimize and Link), you must use the Rebuild Application option to create a new application VLX file with the changes you specified. The Make Application option only checks for changes to AutoLISP source code files, not to application options.