Tornado

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Projects
4.1 Introduction
The project facility is a key element of the Tornado development environment. It
provides graphical and automated mechanisms for creating applications that can
be downloaded to VxWorks, for configuring VxWorks with selected features, and
for creating applications that can be linked with a VxWorks image and started
when the target system boots. The project facility provides mechanisms for:
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Organizing the files that make up a project.
Grouping related projects into a workspace.
Customizing and scaling VxWorks.
Adding application initialization routines to VxWorks.
Defining varied sets of build options.
Building applications and VxWorks images.
Downloading application objects to the target.
NOTE: For a tutorial introduction to the project facility and its use with the
integrated version of the VxWorks target simulator and other Tornado tools, see
the Tornado Getting Started Guide.
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