How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, Introduction lists the utilities you must have on your system before using the ChorusOS product and also lists the tools, utilities and files you are provided with.

Chapter 2, System Generation gives specific information for the installation of ChorusOS source code, and outlines how to generate a ChorusOS system image.

Chapter 3, Building with imake provides a brief introduction to the imake development tool. Further details are available in the ChorusOS 4.0 Introduction.

Chapter 4, Building with mkmk provides an introduction to the building rules of the mkmk tool and a description of the merge method, using mkmerge(1CC), which permits the selection of a subset of the source code, for example, the family dependent code.

Chapter 5, Creating a ChorusOS Component describes how to create and add a ChorusOS component to your system, built with the mkmk or the imake tool. You are guided through an example which is provided in the form of a tutorial.

Chapter 6, Customization supplies information on the customization of your system production by adding features and tunables managed by the configurator(1CC) command and the ews graphical configuration tool.

Chapter 7, XML Syntax contains details of the XML syntax of the ChorusOS product's configuration files.