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QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide
Working with QNX Momentics IDE
QNX Momentics IDE provides a graphical environment for developing, running, debugging, and profiling applications.
Get to know Eclipse
The IDE is based on the Eclipse platform but adds many features and tools for debugging, profiling, and monitoring applications on QNX-based systems.

QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide
- Working with QNX Momentics IDE
  QNX Momentics IDE provides a graphical environment for developing, running, debugging, and profiling applications.
  - Get to know Eclipse
    The IDE is based on the Eclipse platform but adds many features and tools for debugging, profiling, and monitoring applications on QNX-based systems.
  - What's new in the IDE?
    The QNX Momentics IDE version 8 is build on top of Eclipse 2023-06 and supports the features of QNX OS 8.0.
  - Starting the IDE
    Depending on your development system OS, you can start the IDE from the system UI or the command line.
  - Preparing your target
    The QNX development environment consists of a host and a target machine.
  - Creating a target connection
    A target connection defines connection settings for a target machine. Each connection provides a launch target that you can select in the launch bar to specify where an application is to run.
- Developing Projects with the IDE
  To use the QNX Momentics IDE to write applications targeted for QNX OS systems, you must define projects, which are containers that store your source code, configuration files, and binary files.
- Debugging Applications
  The IDE allows you to debug a running application, a library used by the application, or a core file.
- Unit Testing
  The IDE lets you use commercial test frameworks to write unit tests and then execute them by launching a project. While running a test program, you can use the Code Coverage tool to determine how much of the code is exercised (covered) by your tests.
- Analyzing Memory Usage and Finding Memory Problems
  QNX Momentics IDE lets you run Memory Analysis and several Valgrind (pronounced val-grinned) tools to find memory problems such as leaks and corruption, and to measure memory usage of programs. It also provides the QNX System Information perspective so you can learn which processes are consuming memory or other resources excessively.
- Analyzing Performance
  QNX Momentics IDE works with the Application Profiler and Valgrind (pronounced val-grinned) Cachegrind tools, which measure the performance of programs running on QNX targets. It also offers the QNX System Information perspective for viewing performance-related metrics.
- Analyzing System Behavior
  Many IDE tools allow you to find errors and optimize applications, but to ensure that your embedded system behaves well, you need to use system-wide diagnostic tools. The QNX System Information and QNX System Profiler tools help you understand process and thread interaction on the target, reduce application and system startup times, and debug deadlock and improper CPU usage levels.
- Building QNX OS Images
  Using the IDE's QNX System Builder feature, you can generate OS images, which are bootable images that contain startup code, the QNX OS, your applications, and any data files used by your applications. The IDE supports image building by allowing you to transfer an image to a target board.
- Reference
  The reference topics provide information about QNX Momentics IDE features and workflows that isn't covered in the chapters related to developing projects or debugging, testing, and analyzing applications.
- JTAG: Debugging with Lauterbach TRACE32
  The Lauterbach TRACE32® In-Circuit Debugger (TRACE32-ICD) supports the JTAG onchip interface so you can perform hardware debugging of QNX OS systems through the QNX Momentics IDE.
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Get to know Eclipse

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The IDE is based on the Eclipse platform but adds many features and tools for debugging, profiling, and monitoring applications on QNX-based systems.

The UI of our IDE varies significantly from that of Eclipse, notably with the IDE's launch bar at the top, which automates building, running, and stopping programs. When appropriate, we refer the reader to the Eclipse documentation for components that are part of the underlying platform and are presented in the same way in our IDE. But you should follow the steps in this guide on project creation, launching, and debugging instead of those in the Eclipse documentation.

If you want to learn about the Eclipse platform and its built-in features, you can read the Eclipse documentation included with the IDE:

The Workbench User Guide describes the Workbench desktop environment and provides both basic tutorials and detailed instructions for many different tasks.
The C/C++ Development User Guide has information about the C/C++ Development Toolkit (CDT) and the Eclipse features for creating, editing, and navigating C/C++ projects.
The Eclipse Marketplace User Guide explains how to use the Eclipse Marketplace Client to find and install useful features.
The EGit Documentation describes how to share your project to a Git repository and work on it with your team.

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