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QNX® Momentics® Transparent Distributed Processing Source Kit 1.0.1 Installation Note

QNX® Momentics®

Date of this edition: October 03, 2005

Target OS: QNX® Neutrino® 6.3.0 SP1 or later

Host OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or SP2, 2000 SP4, NT SP6a; Sun Solaris 7, 8, or 9; QNX® Neutrino® 6.3.0 SP1 or later; Linux Red Hat 8, 9, or Enterprise WS 3 or 4

Note: For the latest information about this software kit, see the online release notes (log into your myQNX account, and then go to the Download Center area of www.qnx.com).

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Installing this software kit

Note: Before you install this software kit, you must have already installed QNX Momentics 6.3 and Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later on a supported host.
Caution: Each Board Support Package, Driver Development Kit, Technology Development Kit, and Source Kit contains a standalone directory hierarchy. If you're installing more than one of these products, don't combine the directories, or you might overwrite some of the files.

On a Windows host

Note: If you've installed QNX Momentics versions 6.2.1 and 6.3.0 so that they coexist on your Windows host, please note:
  • You can't install 6.3.0 software when the active version is QNX Momentics 6.2.1; set your configuration to 6.3.0.
  • If you switch from 6.2.1 to 6.3.0, you may have to log out of your user session and log back in before installing this kit.
  1. Log in as a user with system-administrator privileges.
  2. Log into your myQNX account on our website, and then go to the Download Center.
  3. Download the software kit, tdp-1.0.1-nnnnnnnnnnn-win32.exe, where nnnnnnnnnnn is the 11-digit build number. The kit is in the form of an executable (.exe) file.
  4. Double-click the file in Windows Explorer or run it at the command line.
  5. Follow the instructions provided by InstallShield.
    Note: Windows XP SP2 may display a security warning the first time you install a TDK or SK. You can verify the kit's checksums when you download the file from our website.

On a Solaris or Linux host

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Log into your myQNX account on our website, and then go to the Download Center.
  3. Download the software kit, tdp-1.0.1-nnnnnnnnnnn-host.bin, where nnnnnnnnnnn is the 11-digit build number, and host is either solaris or linux. The kit is in the form of a .bin script.
  4. Run chmod to make the script executable. For example: 
    chmod a+x tdp-1.0.1-20051234567-linux.bin
  5. Run the script at the system prompt. For example: 
    ./tdp-1.0.1-20051234567-linux.bin
  6. Follow the instructions provided by InstallShield.

On a QNX Neutrino host

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Log into your myQNX account on our website, and then go to the Download Center.
  3. Download the software kit, src-tdp-1.0.0-nnnnnnnnnnn-qnx6.sh, where nnnnnnnnnnn is the 11-digit build number. The kit is in the form of a shell script.
  4. Run chmod to make the script executable. For example: 
    chmod a+x tdp-1.0.1-20051234567-qnx6.sh
  5. Run the script at the system prompt. For example: 
    ./tdp-1.0.1-20051234567-qnx6.sh
  6. Follow the instructions on your screen.

Uninstalling this software kit

On a Windows host

  1. Log in as a user with system-administrator privileges.
  2. Open the Control Panel (e.g. on Windows 2000: Start-->Settings-->Control Panel).
  3. Select Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Select the Transparent Distributed Processing software kit, then click the Remove button.

On a Solaris or Linux host

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Go to the $QNX_TARGET/_uninstall/Transparent_Distributed_Processing_Source_Kit1.0.1 directory.
  3. Start the QNX InstallShield application: 
    ./uninstaller.bin

    InstallShield will now remove the source kit.

On a QNX Neutrino host

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Go to the $QNX_TARGET/install/src/tdp directory.
  3. Run the uninstaller script: 
    ./uninstall

Documentation

This product includes a manual, the Transparent Distributed Processing Source Kit Developer's Guide, that describes how to write a driver for Neutrino's lightweight L4 QNet to support different fast interconnects. If you're on a self-hosted Neutrino machine, you'll find this manual in the helpviewer; on other hosts, point a browser at:

${QNX_TARGET}/usr/help/product/tdp_sk_en/bookset.html.

The QNX Momentics Development Suite has other documentation related to Qnet, including:

  • Native Networking (Qnet) chapter of the System Architecture guide
  • Using Qnet for Transparent Distributed Processing chapter of the Neutrino User's Guide
  • Transparent Distributed Processing Using Qnet chapter and Advanced Qnet Topics appendix of the Neutrino Programmer's Guide.

Technical support

If you have any questions, comments, or problems with a QNX product, please contact Technical Support. For more information, see the How to Get Help chapter of the Welcome to QNX Momentics guide or visit our website, www.qnx.com.