About the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide

The QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide covers a variety of topics that might interest developers who are building applications that will run under the QNX Neutrino RTOS.

Note: For an introduction to programming in QNX Neutrino, see Getting Started with QNX Neutrino. Depending on the nature of your application and target platform, you may also need to refer to Building Embedded Systems. If you're using the Integrated Development Environment, see the IDE User's Guide.

This table may help you find what you need in the Programmer's Guide:

When you want to:	Go to:
Get started with a “Hello, world!” program	Compiling and Debugging
Get an overview of the QNX Neutrino process model and scheduling methods	Programming Overview
Create and terminate processes	Processes
Write programs for multicore systems	Multicore Processing
Manipulate the access control lists for files and directories	Working with ACLs
Understand the inaccuracies in times	Understanding the Microkernel's Concept of Time
Use native networking	Transparent Distributed Processing Using Qnet
Learn about ISRs in QNX Neutrino	Writing an Interrupt Handler
Learn about programming for differently sized architectures	32- and 64-Bit Architectures
Analyze and detect problems related to dynamic memory management	Heap Analysis
Deal with non-x86 issues (e.g., big-endian vs little-endian)	Freedom from Hardware and Platform Dependencies
Understand our Makefile methodology	Conventions for Recursive Makefiles and Directories
Look up terms used in the QNX Neutrino documentation	Glossary

Note: We assume that you've already installed QNX Neutrino and that you're familiar with its architecture. For a detailed overview, see the System Architecture manual.

For the most part, the information that's documented in the Programmer's Guide is specific to QNX. For more general information, we recommend the following books:

Threads:

Butenhof, David R. 1997. Programming with POSIX Threads. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 0-201-63392-2.

TCP/IP programming (note that some of the advanced API features mentioned in the following books might not be supported):

Hunt, Craig. 2002. TCP/IP Network Administration. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates. ISBN 0-596-00297-1.
Stevens, W. Richard. 1997. Unix Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR. ISBN 0-13-490012-X.
Stevens, W. Richard. 1993. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 The Protocols. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 0-201-63346-9.
Stevens, W. Richard. 1995. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 The Implementation. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 0-201-63354-X.