Wind River Workbench
USER'S GUIDE
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3.1
Wind River Workbench User's Guide, 3.1
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Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1 Overview .............................................................................................. 3
1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 3
1.1.1 Introducing Wind River Workbench ..................................................... 3
1.2 Starting Workbench ............................................................................................... 4
1.2.1 Starting Workbench on a Linux or Solaris Host .................................. 5
1.2.2 Starting Workbench on a Windows Host ............................................. 5
1.2.3 Deciding which Workspace to Use ........................................................ 5
1.3 Wind River Documentation ................................................................................. 6
1.3.1 Introducing this Guide ............................................................................ 6
Understanding the Typefaces in this Guide ......................................... 7
1.4 Accessing and Searching Workbench Context-Sensitive Help ..................... 7
1.4.1 Searching for Information in the Documentation ............................... 8
1.4.2 Refining a Search ...................................................................................... 8
Restricting a Search to Local Help ......................................................... 9
Restricting a Search to Another Information Source .......................... 9
1.4.3 For More Information .............................................................................. 10
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PART II: PROJECTS
2 Building and Debugging a Sample Project ....................................... 13
2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 13
2.2 Creating a Project and Running a Program ....................................................... 14
2.2.1 Resetting to the Default Perspective ...................................................... 14
2.2.2 Creating the ball Project .......................................................................... 14
Creating the Project for the VxWorks Simulator ................................. 15
Creating the Project for a Linux Target ................................................. 15
2.2.3 Importing Source Files Into Your Project ............................................. 15
2.2.4 Building the ball Project .......................................................................... 16
2.2.5 Connecting to the Target ......................................................................... 16
2.2.6 Running the ball Application in the Debugger .................................... 17
2.2.7 Setting Up the Device Debug Perspective ............................................ 18
2.2.8 Stepping Through Code .......................................................................... 19
2.2.9 Setting and Running to a Breakpoint .................................................... 21
2.2.10 Modifying the Breakpoint to Execute Continuously .......................... 23
2.3 Editing and Debugging Source Files .................................................................. 24
2.3.1 Using Bookmarks in Lines and Files ..................................................... 24
Introducing an Error for this Tutorial ................................................... 24
Creating the Bookmark to the Error ...................................................... 24
Locating and Viewing the Bookmark .................................................... 25
2.3.2 Building a Project with Introduced Errors ........................................... 25
2.3.3 Rebuilding the Project Without Errors .................................................. 26
2.3.4 Displaying a File’s History ...................................................................... 26
2.4 Using the Editor’s Code Development Features .............................................. 27
2.4.1 Changing File Preferences ....................................................................... 27
2.4.2 Navigating in the Source ......................................................................... 28
Using the Outline View ........................................................................... 28
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Finding Elements (Text Filtering) .......................................................... 29
Finding Strings ......................................................................................... 29
2.4.3 Using Code Completion to Suggest Elements ..................................... 30
2.4.4 Getting Parameter Hints for Routine Data Types ............................... 31
2.4.5 Finding Symbols in Source Files ............................................................ 31
2.4.6 Using Bracket Matching to Find Code Open and Close Sections ..... 32
3 Projects Overview ................................................................................ 33
3.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 33
3.2 Choosing Locations for Workspaces and Projects ........................................... 34
3.3 Creating New Projects ........................................................................................... 35
3.3.1 Modifying Project Settings ...................................................................... 36
3.4 Project Types ........................................................................................................... 36
3.4.1 Linux-Specific Projects ............................................................................ 37
Wind River Workbench Projects ............................................................ 37
Wind River Linux Application Project .................................................. 37
Wind River Linux User-Defined Projects ............................................. 37
Wind River Linux Platforms Project ..................................................... 37
Wind River Linux Kernel Module Projects .......................................... 38
Customer-Specific Linux Application Project ...................................... 38
Customer-Specific Linux Kernel Project ............................................... 38
3.4.2 VxWorks-Specific Projects ...................................................................... 38
VxWorks Image Project ........................................................................... 38
VxWorks Source Build Project ............................................................... 39
VxWorks Boot Loader/BSP Project ....................................................... 39
VxWorks Downloadable Kernel Module Project ................................ 39
VxWorks Real-time Process Project ....................................................... 40
VxWorks Shared Library Project ........................................................... 41
VxWorks ROMFS File System Project ................................................... 41
3.4.3 User-Defined Projects .............................................................................. 42
3.4.4 Native Application Projects .................................................................... 43
3.5 Structuring Projects ................................................................................................ 43
