About This Guide

Getting Started describes how to get started with the QNX SDK for Apps and Media. The QNX website has Apps and Media reference (evaluation) images. You can download the platform-specific reference image you need, copy it to your target and begin using the QNX Apps and Media system.

Depending on what you need to do, you should refer to different chapters in this guide:

Installing and Booting a Reference Image explains how to transfer a QNX Apps and Media reference image to your target platform. You should start with this chapter.
Building Target Images explains how to build a target image. Once you are familiar with what is in the QNX Apps and Media reference image, you can follow the instructions in this chapter to recreate a reference image. When you have built a new image, you can transfer it to your target, as explained in "Installing and Booting a Reference Image".
Understanding the mksysimage process explains what mksysimage.py does when it generates a target image.
Startup describes the startup process for a QNX Apps and Media system.
Modifying Target Images explains how to modify your QNX Apps and Media target image. These instructions explain how to add or remove components or otherwise customize your Apps and Media image. When you have customized your image, you can build it, as explained in "Building Target Images".

The following table may help you find information quickly:

To find out about:	See:
Getting started with a reference image	Installing and Booting a Reference Image
How to transfer a reference image to your target	Downloading and transferring a reference image
How to add apps to your QNX Apps and Media project	Apps and HMIs
How to build an Apps and Media image	Building Target Images
The tasks you must complete to build a target image	How to create a target image
The process mksysimage.py uses to build an image	Understanding the mksysimage process
Scripts and utilities you use to build an Apps and Media image	Scripts and utilities
The QNX Apps and Media startup process	Startup
How to modify your target image	Modifying Target Images

Note:

In the interests of brevity, in this document target and reference images generated from the QNX SDK for Apps and Media may be referred to simply as "QNX Apps and Media target (or reference) image", or even "Apps and Media image".

The variable base_dir used in this guide refers to the directory where you installed QNX SDP on your host system.

We have included in the installation the version of Python that we tested for building Apps and Media.

For information about supported hardware, see the Installation Notes and Release Notes that are posted on the QNX Download Center.