Re: Extending SDK

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 11/24/2010 08:53 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 08:22 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I've built meta-toolchain-sdk and although it was saved in the
>> wrong place, all seems to be working well.  Until I tried to
>> build a program that uses some package which was not part of
>> the "default" set.   In particular, I tried to build 'xeyes'
>> outside of Poky using the SDK, but it needs xt and xmu libraries
>> which are built for my target, but weren't in the SDK I built.
>>
>> Questions:
>>     * Did I miss something in building the SDK that left these out?
>>     * Is there a way, hopefully straight forward, of adding additonal
>>       packages to the SDK?  Can this be done incrementally, i.e. I
>>       already have an SDK installed, can I do some magic to just add
>>       the xt support?
>>
>
> The SDK currently installs a fixed set of packages, the headers deemed
> useful for gnome-mobile development - this isn't currently very useful
> and is an area I'd like to improve.
>
> The SDK does come with a package manager (opkg-cl) which you should be
> able to configure to point at your existing feeds and then use to
> install additional headers into your SDK.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.  I suppose that I'd need to install the -dev
packages for the stuff I want?

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