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authorHolger Hans Peter Freyther <zecke@selfish.org>2009-08-11 09:51:45 +0200
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usermanual: Start a chapter on how to build your own SDK.
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<para>This section is a stub, help us by expanding it</para>
</section>
+
+ <section id="commonuse_qte_sdk">
+ <title>Creating Software Development Kits (SDKs)</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>What is provided by a SDK</title>
+
+ <para>The Software Development Kit (SDK) should be easy to install and
+ enable your userbase to create binaries and libraries that work on the
+ target hardware.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>To accomplish this goal OpenEmbedded SDKs contain tools for the
+ host and tools for the target hardware. Among these tools is a cross
+ compiler, libraries and header files for additional dependencies, pkg-config
+ files to allow buildsystems to easily find the dependencies, a file with
+ results for autoconf and a script that can be sourced to setup the
+ environment.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Creating a SDK with your libraries pre-installed</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Preparing the host side</title>
+ <para>Your SDK might need utilities that will run on the
+ host. These could include scripts, buildsystem software like
+ cmake, or an emulator like qemu. For these dependencies it is
+ imported that they <emphasis>inherit sdk</emphasis> and by
+ convention end with <emphasis>-sdk</emphasis> in the
+ <command>PN</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>A new task should be created that will assure that all
+ host utilities will be installed. Place a file called
+ <filename>task-YOUR-toolchain-host.bb</filename> in the
+ <filename>recipes/tasks</filename> directory and place the
+ following content in it:
+<screen>
+require task-sdk-host.bb
+DESCRIPTION = "Host packages for YOUR SDK"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+ALLOW_EMPTY = "1"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "YOUR-DEPENDENCY-sdk"
+</screen>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Preapring the target side</title>
+ <para>Your SDK should provide your user with header files and libraries
+ he will need when doing application development. In OpenEmbedded the
+ <command>${PN}-dev</command> isi providing the header files, pkg-config
+ files and symbolic links to libraries to allow using the library. The SDK
+ should install these development packages to the SDK.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>To install the development packages you will need to create a
+ new task. Create a new file <filename>task-YOUR-toolchain-target.bb</filename>
+ in the <filename>recipes/tasks</filename> directory and place the
+ following content in it:
+<screen>
+DESCRIPTION = "Target package for YOUR SDK"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+ALLOW_EMPTY = "1"
+
+PR = "r0"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+ task-sdk-bare \
+ your-lib-dev \
+ your-data
+ "
+</screen>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Putting it together</title>
+ <para>In the previous two sections we have prepared the host and
+ target side. One thing that is missing is combining the two newly
+ created tasks and actually create the SDK. This is what we are going
+ to do now.</para>
+
+ <para>Create <filename>meta-toolchain-YOU.bb</filename> in the
+ <filename>recipes/meta</filename> directory and place the following
+ content in it:
+<screen>
+PR = "r0"
+TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK = "task-YOUR-toolchain-target"
+TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK = "task-YOUR-toolchain-host"
+
+require meta-toolchain.bb
+SDK_SUFFIX = "toolchain-YOUR"
+</screen>
+
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Using <command>bitbake meta-toolchain-YOU</command> the SDK
+ creation should be started and you should find a <filename>sdk</filename>
+ directory inside your deploy directory with a SDK waiting for you. With
+ the above command you still need to have OE configured with your
+ <filename>conf/local.conf</filename> to select the machine and
+ distribution you are targetting.
+ </para>
+
+ <note>SDK creation currently does not work with the <emphasis>DISTRO</emphasis>
+ set to <emphasis>micro</emphasis>.</note>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ </section>
</chapter>