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Projects
VxWorks is a flexible, scalable operating system with numerous facilities that can
be tuned, and included or excluded, depending on the requirements of your
application and the stage of the development cycle. For example, various
networking and file system components may be required for one application and
not another, and the project facility provides a simple means for either including
them in, or excluding them from, a VxWorks application. In addition, it may be
useful to build VxWorks with various target tools during development (such as the
target-resident shell), and then exclude them from the production application.
Once you create a customized VxWorks, you can boot your target with it and then
download and run applications. You can also create a bootable application simply
by linking your application to VxWorks and adding application startup calls to the
VxWorks system initialization routines (see 4.4 Creating a Bootable Application,
p.127).
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4.3.1 Creating a Project for VxWorks
All work that you do with the project facility, whether a downloadable application,
a customized version of VxWorks, or a bootable application, takes place in the
context of a project.
Open a project workspace by clicking the Project button in the Tornado Launch
window. If the Create Project or Open Workspace window is open (the default when
you first open the Tornado Project window 6 ), click the New tab. Otherwise, click
File>New Project. Then choose the selection for a bootable application, and click OK
(Figure 4-17).
The application wizard appears (Figure 4-18). This wizard is a tool that guides you
through the steps of creating a new project.
First, enter the full directory path and name of the directory you want to use for
the project (only one project is allowed in a directory), and enter the project name.
It is usually most convenient to use the same name for the directory and project,
but it is not required.
6. You can modify the default behavior by un-checking the Show this window on startup box
at the bottom of the window.
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