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QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
This User's Guide describes the QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. The guide introduces you to the QNX Toolkit by explaining the QNX development environment and how to build, run, and debug your QNX OS applications and systems.
About the QNX Toolkit

QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
This User's Guide describes the QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. The guide introduces you to the QNX Toolkit by explaining the QNX development environment and how to build, run, and debug your QNX OS applications and systems.
- About the QNX Toolkit
  - Quickstart guide
    This guide will help you use the QNX Toolkit to quickly develop a program so you can run it on an QNX OS target.
  - Known issues
  - Getting to know Visual Studio Code
    The QNX Toolkit is based on the Visual Studio Code but adds many features and tools for debugging, profiling, and monitoring applications on QNX-based systems.
- Using the Target Navigator
  The QNX development environment consists of a host and a target machine.
- Developing QNX Projects
  To use the QNX Toolkit to write applications targeted for QNX OS systems, you must define projects, which are folders in the filesystem. A VS Code workspace is a collection of these folders and VS Code settings defined by the .code-workspace file. QNX projects are saved to a folder defined in a your configuration (default location is ~/qnxprojects).
- Debugging and Launching
- Using the System Profiler
  You can use the System Profiler to render different types of trace analysis, such as graphs and tables.
- References
  The reference topics provide information about QNX Toolkit features and workflows that isn't covered in the other chapters.
- 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.
- Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
  This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

About the QNX Toolkit

Updated: November 27, 2023

QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code provides Visual Studio Code users with access to the world-class POSIX-based QNX development environment. The QNX Toolkit enables shorter debug times and faster time to market, while multi-core-specific tools help developers migrate code cleanly from single-core to multi-core systems, and safely optimize performance.

Prerequisites

The QNX Toolkit has the following prerequisites:

Linux (at least Ubuntu 20 x86-64), or Windows (at least Windows 10 x86-64)
QNX Software Development Platform 8.0 installed
Installation of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
VS Code Extension: Microsoft C/C++ (required for C/C++ Development)
VS Code Extension: QNX Trace Compass (required for the System Profiler)
Java runtime 17 (or higher) is required for the System Profiler
System running QNX OS connected over IP OR local virtualized environment (QEMU, VMware or VirtualBox)
CMake (for CMake project types)

Installation

The QNX Toolkit is an extension for Visual Studio Code that can be downloaded and installed from the Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode