Building OS and Flash Images

One of the more distinctive tools within the IDE is the QNX System Builder perspective, which simplifies the job of building OS images for your embedded systems. Besides generating images intended for your target board's RAM or flash, the QNX System Builder can also help reduce the size of your images (e.g. by reducing the size of shared libraries). The Builder also takes care of tracking library dependencies for you, prompting you for any missing components.

• Introducing the QNX System Builder
  
• Toolbar buttons
  
• Binary Inspector
  
• Boot script files
  
• Overview of images
  
• Components of an image, in order of booting
  
• Types of images you can create
  
• BSP filename conventions
  
• OS image (.ifs file)
  
• Flash filesystem image (.efs file)
  
• Combined image
  
• Padding after the IPL
  
• Project layout
  
• Workflow of image creation
  
• Creating a new QNX System Builder project for an OS image
  
• Creating a project for a flash filesystem image (an .efs file)
  
• Building an OS image
  
• Creating a new image
  
• Combining images
  
• Adding an IPL to the start of your image
  
• Adding an EFS to your image
  
• Setting the final format of your OS image
  
• Downloading an image to your target
  
• Downloading
  
• Opening a terminal
  
• Communicating with your target
  
• Using the QNX Send File button
  
• Downloading using TFTP
  
• Transferring a file
  
• Transferring files that aren't in Images
  
• Transferring an image
  
• Settings for the TFTP server
  
• Setting font and color preferences
  
• Downloading using other methods
  
• Configuring your QNX System Builder projects
  
• Managing your images
  
• Determining the shared libraries and DLLs are required for an executable
  
• Adding files to your image
  
• Deleting files
  
• Adding directories
  
• Deleting directories
  
• Configuring image properties
  
• Image properties
  
• Directories
  
• General
  
• System (.ifs)
  
• System (.efs)
  
• Item properties
  
• General
  
• Combine
  
• Memory
  
• Permissions
  
• Configuring project properties
  
• Search Paths
  
• Managing your search paths
  
• Search path variables
  
• Optimizing your system
  
• Optimizing all libraries in your image
  
• Optimizing a single library
  
• Restoring a slimmed-down library
  
• Moving files between the host and target
  
• Moving files to the target
  
• Moving files from the target to the host
  
• Exporting a System Builder project to a Mkxfs build file(s)
  

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