Professional Windows® Embedded CE 6.0

Chapter 4. Building a Customized CE 6.0 Runtime Image

In this chapter, we will go through the steps to create an OS design, include additional components from the component catalog, set environment variables to further customize the OS design, and generate a CE 6.0 runtime image.

To work through the exercise in this chapter, you need to have the following software components already installed on the development workstation. The installation steps for these software components were covered in Chapter 2.

• Visual Studio 2005

• Visual Studio 2005 SP1

• Visual Studio 2005 SP1 update for Vista

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• Windows Embedded CE 6.0

• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 SP1

• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2

If you don't have all the software components installed, follow the steps provided in Chapter 2.

To build a CE 6.0 runtime image, we will go through the following steps:

1. Create the OS design project.

2. Select the Board Support Package.

3. Select additional needed components from the CE 6.0 component catalog.

4. Generate the OS runtime image from the OS design project.

Note

Depending on the development workstation's processor speed and available system memory, a typical OS design project takes anywhere from 15 minutes to well over 30 minutes to build.

Creating the Initial OS Design

When creating a new OS design project, VS2005 launches the OS design wizard and steps through the OS design project creation process, providing templates we can select and ...