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TITLE: VxWorks port

DESCRIPTION: Add readme file

Title: Building Pegasus for Embedded Systems
Date: 1 November 2007
Status: Draft


Separation of the server and client builds

When building for embedded systems typically the server is built targeted to one
platform and the clients and support tools are build targeted to another (host)
platform.  Thus, for example, for VxWorks, the cim server would be targeted to
the target VxWorks platform and the remiaining components of Pegasus (clients,
compiler, end-end tests) would be targeted towards the development system.

Pegasus build environment has been extended to make this possible.  The user may
elect to work from either a single source tree or multiple source trees. But
in any case, two separate build sequences are required for a complete Pegasus
build, the target platform build (cross compile) of the cimserver and server unit tests and the 
host build.  The sections below describe these processes.

Note that this work has expanded the make structure of pegasus to include a new make configuration
file (config.mak) located in the PEGASUS_ROOT directory. If this file exists, the definitions
included in the file are included in the mak/configure.mak file which means that this file
can be used to setup configuration parameters for the make.  The host / target make structure
uses this new file.


Building the server for the target platform

1. Set up a configure.mak in the pegasus source root directory with the specific
directives for the target make.  Note that there are several sample configure.mak
files defined in the pegasus.vxworks directory.  Since there may be a number of variations
of the make structure depending on the test configuraiton, it is logical to set up a
configure.mak for each and simply copy or softlink the correct one into the pegasus source root.

2. 




Building the clients on the host platform

The host platform build is the same as as any normal pegasus build.  It is 
initiated through the top level make file and builds all components of the envrionment
for execution on the host system.  Typically this can be executed with the alternatives
defined below.

    make new world    -- builds everything
    make              -- build the source
    make repository   -- builds the repository for the host system.

There is no specific make today to simply build the non-server components.

NOTE: The $PEGASUS_ROOT/configure.mak is normally used to set up the the configuration for
the target build.   It need not be used for the host build.  It can be used to generate
parameters for this build


Special characteristics of the Embedded OpenPegasus Server

OpenPegasus implemented several special characteristics to support embedded platforms
including:

1. Memory-Resident Repository (PEP 305)
2. Static providers
3. Single image build that produces a single output file containing the server,
   providers, and the memory-resident class repository.

This section provides an overview of how to create a complete embedded server.
Note that there is a working example in the directory vxWorks/cimserver of a
build with some sample providers and a complete class repository containing 3
namespaces.

Building the Memory-Resident Repository

See the note readme.MemoryResidentRepository file for detailed information on the
memory-resident repository

Building Providers

See the note readme.StaticProviders for detailed information on building static
providers for OpenPegasus embedded systems.