Extending SDK

Extending SDK

[Gary Thomas]

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?

I looked through the handbook, but didn't find much information
on this.

Thanks for any pointers

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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
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Re: Extending SDK

[Joshua Lock]

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.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: Extending SDK

[Gary Thomas]

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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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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Re: Extending SDK

[Joshua Lock]

On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 09:03 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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?
> 

Quite right, I'd recommend the -dbg packages too if you anticipate a
debugging session.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre