# Installing eXtremeDB on VxWorks

> After downloading, simply extract the contents of the archive file to a convenient directory. For example, suppose that you purchasedeXtremeDB High Availability for VxWorks version 6.9 with the Diab tool chain for applications on ARM target architecture, and you wish to use the root directory "eXtremeDB". Installing on a Windows host development environment, simply extract the contents of the zip file into directory `eXtremeDB`.

> Now all of the software components necessary to build eXtremeDB C/C++ applications, as well as documentation and SDK samples, are available in the root directory `eXtremeDB`. After installation, your directory tree will look like the following:

>         \eXtremeDB
>             documentation
>             host
>             include
>             samples
>             target
>             license.txt

See Package Contents for an explanation of these contents.