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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.
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.

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
- 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.

Glossary

Updated: November 27, 2023

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.