Summary of Toolchain/SDK session

Summary of Toolchain/SDK session

[Philip Balister]

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