README for rt-app @VERSION@

==============
 INTRODUCTION
==============

rt-app is a test application that starts multiple periodic threads in order to 
simulate a real-time periodic load.

Code is currently maintained on GitHub:

	https://github.com/scheduler-tools/rt-app


==============
 REQUIREMENTS
==============

rt-app runs on GNU/Linux. It needs autoconf, automake, libtool , json-c and
a recent compiler (mainly: gcc) for basic features.

=============
 COMPILATION
=============

$ autoreconf --install
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Last step is optional, rt-app is generated in the src/ directory.

Typical usage:

$ ./configure --prefix=<directory>
	installs the compiled program in  the given directory

see ./configure --help for additional options.

For cross-compilation, you may have to set the CC environment variable to your
cross-compiler, and provide the --host option (e.g., --host=arm).

=======
 USAGE
=======

$ rt-app <config_file>
where config file is a full/relative path to a json file (look under doc/ for
example config files) or "-" (without quotes) to read JSON data from stdin.

The python merge script can be used to combine json snippets into the config file:
e.g:
./merge.py -o combined.json global.json resources.json thread0.json thread1.json thread2.json thread3.json
