3. Creating a program project

In the IDE, from the File menu, select New > Project..., and then select QNX Project under the QNX folder:

Click Next. In the resulting window, select QNX Executable. Alternatively, from the File menu, you can select New > QNX Project, which brings you to the same window:

Click Next. In the resulting dialog, give your project a name:

Leave Use default location checked and Add project to working sets unchecked. Under CPU Variant, select a CPU architecture for the binary you're creating.

Click Finish. A ready-to-use project structure with a makefile is created for you, including a small program (Hello World!!!), which you'll find in an automatically generated source code file.

The IDE now switches to the C/C++ perspective, which features the navigator, the editor, and other useful views, areas that display information that's relevant to the task at hand. If the IDE doesn't automatically switch for you, click the C/C++ perspective button () at the top-right of the IDE.