= RTEMS Tools Project =

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The RTEMS Tools Project is a collection of host based tools that support the RTEMS Project. RTEMS is an embedded operating system and development occurs on a range of different host computers. The RTEMS Tools Project collects a number of the host tools into a single package.

The tools provided are:

* The [wiki:Developer/Tools/RSB RTEMS Source Builder] builds development tools from source.
* The [wiki:Developer/Tools/RTEMS_Linker RTEMS Linker] creates dynamically loaded executables.
* The [wiki:Developer/Tools/RTEMS_Tester RTEMS Tester] is a Python-based tool to run RTEMS tests on a range of hardware or simulator targets.
* The [wiki:Developer/Tracing/Trace_Linker RTEMS Trace Linker] is a linker used to create [wiki:Developer/Tracing trace executables].
* The [wiki:Developer/Tools/RTEMS_GDB_Python RTEMS GDB Python] support scripts provide user-friendly access to RTEMS kernel data.

The RTEMS Tools Project contains a number of tool patches for external tools used by the RTEMS projects.

== Repository ==

The RTEMS Tools repository is located at https://git.rtems.org/rtems-tools.

== Building ==

The RTEMS Tools uses the waf build system. First you configure with:
{{{
$ waf configure --prefix=/opt/rtems/4.11
}}}
Then build using:
{{{
$ waf
}}}
Finally to install:
{{{
$ waf install
}}}

== RTEMS Tool Kit  ==

The RTEMS Tools Project contains tools written in C++ and Python. The toolkit provides a framework to manage things like ELF files and symbols. The Python code provides classes that allows RTEMS to build quality tools simply.