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4.3.6 Booting VxWorks
For information about booting VxWorks (and bootable applications) see
2.6 Booting VxWorks, p.45. VxWorks images for the target simulator can be
downloaded and booted with the context-menu Start command.
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4.4 Creating a Bootable Application
A bootable application is completely initialized and functional after a target has
been booted, without requiring interaction with Tornado development tools.
Once you have created and tested a downloadable application and a customized
version of VxWorks with which your application is designed to run, creating a
bootable application is straightforward. To do so, you need to add application
modules to a VxWorks project, and include application startup calls in the
VxWorks system initialization routines. There are various ways to go about this,
but if you have already created one or more projects for application code and a
project for a custom VxWorks, you could simply:
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Add the application project(s) to the VxWorks workspace (or vice versa).
Edit the VxWorks initialization file usrAppInit.c, adding calls to the
application’s initialization and startup routines.
Use the project facility to help scale VxWorks.
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Build the bootable application.
For information about developing applications with the project facility, see
4.2 Creating a Downloadable Application, p.95. For information about configuring
and building VxWorks, see 4.3 Creating a Custom VxWorks Image, p.110. For
information about additional build options, see 4.5 Working With Build
Specifications, p.128.
4.4.1 Using Automated Scaling of VxWorks
The auto scale feature of the project facility determines if your code, or your
custom version of VxWorks, requires any components that are not included in
your VxWorks project, and adds them as required. It also provides information
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