The vxprj Utility

Learning Objectives

After this section you will be able to:

Apply vxprj commands to your projects
Import a project made with vxprj into workbench

Overview of the vxprj Utility

VxWorks provides the vxprj utility to create, manage, and build VxWorks projects. It is accessible through the command-line interface (CLI) and can be launched inside and outside Workbench. In the case of using it externally, you must import the project into Workbench.

This section will contain multiple code blocks showing the results of using vxprj commands.

Getting Help for vxprj

Vxprj has multiple help commands that cover all of its utilities. This short guide will show you how to use the most common ones.

To view the vxprj command groups and general help commands, type vxprj help (or just vxprj).

To get help with project commands, type vxprj project help

To get help for a specific subcommand, type vxprj project subcommand help

It's time to learn about how to manage your project with vxprj.

Managing Projects with the vxprj Utility

In this section, you'll examine some example commands that you can use with the vxprj utility. In the next few examples, the project will have a VSB called myVSB, a VIP called myVIP, and lastly it will use the board xlnx_zynqmp_3_0_0_1.