Chapter 4 Getting Started on VxWorks Systems

VxWorks® systems are not supported in every Connext release. Please refer to Supported Platforms, in the RTI Connext Core Libraries Release Notes to see which platforms are supported in this release.

This section provides simple instructions to configure a kernel and run Connext applications on systems based on VxWorks 7, including more recent releases with calendar-based version numbers.

Please refer to the documentation provided by Wind River Systems for more information on this operating system.

This chapter will guide you through the process of generating, compiling, and running a Hello World application on a VxWorks 7 system by expanding on the VxWorks section of the RTI Connext Core Libraries Platform Notes; please read the following alongside that section. This chapter uses VxWorks 7 as an example. The steps for newer releases should be similar.

The first two sections describe how to build a VxWorks Source Build (VSB) and the kernel:

• 4.1 Building the VSB
• 4.2 Building the Kernel

The next section guides you through the steps to generate, modify, build, and run the provided example HelloWorld application on a VxWorks target:

• 4.3 Building and Running a Hello World Example

For tips on using RTI DDS Ping and Spy, see 4.4 Using DDS Ping and Spy.