[oe] Summary of Toolchain/SDK session
Philip Balister
philip at balister.org
Wed Nov 11 15:57:06 UTC 2009
Toolchain generation is currently a fragile process. Richard's staging
changes should help resolve these issues.
There are several classes of developers:
1) Create recipes for existing software.
2) Modifying kernel config within OE.
3) People creating new software to run on machine that can not be tested
on desktop.
Marco and Ken briefly presented their Eclipse based projects to help
developers. Marco's is targeted at hiding OE from developers, Ken's
provides help for people writing recipes. Ken has promised to write more
on the eclipse plugin issues.
http://community.buglabs.net/kgilmer/posts/110-BitBake-Commander-6-8-Installers-
For SW developers (3) there is an Anjuta plugin:
http://labs.o-hand.com/anjuta-poky-sdk-plugin/
and you can do remote development on a Beagle with Netbeans:
http://mechomaniac.com/BeagleboardDevelopmentWithNetbeans
There was also discussion on making it easier to install OE/bitbake.
Conclusions:
1) Toolchain generation should improve after staging layout changes.
2) People are working on Eclipse plugins, this should be encouraged.
3) Need better documentation to setup Eclipse and CDT with OE toolchains.
4) Need to add a page linking to projects that are useful for people
using OE.
Philip
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