Glossary

To make best use of the QNX Toolkit, we recommend that you become familiar with the following terms, which are used throughout the user interface and documentation.

SDP Path

Directory location of the QNX Software Development Platform

QNX Target

A target connection in which the IDE talks to the qconn agent at the specified target port. This target type works with physical boards or pre-existing VMs, and allows you to run and debug your programs, or analyze them using any of the integrated tools.

QNX Virtual Machine Target

This target type lets you create a VM that runs QNX OS. All tasks related to running, debugging, and analyzing programs with any tool are supported. You can generate QNX VMs for many kinds of commercial third-party VM platforms

QNX Recursive Makefile

An application or library project which uses QNX's recursive make build system.

Simple Makefile

A QNX OS application or utility using a traditional makefile.

QNX CMake Project

An application or library project which uses the CMake build system, in conjunction with the QNX compiler tool chain.