Re: My thoughts on the future of OE?

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 05/02/2014 07:10 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 05/02/2014 03:47 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On 2 May 2014 14:00, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl> wrote:
>>> Just about fifteen minutes ago I was asked the question of "Yay, I could
>>> build a complete image for the board from scratch. Now how do I
>>> create and
>>> run a HelloWorld application on it?"
>>
>> Depending on context simply adding the "tools-sdk dev-pkgs"
>> IMAGE_FEATURES is sufficient to build applications on the target, as
>> long as it's for the hello world or iterative development approaches.
>> Obviously a recipe would need to be written at some point but getting
>> a toolchain in the image for development on the target is trivial.
>>
>> Ross
>>
> 
> That would be for "how do I create and run a HelloWorld application on
> target without using my PC at all?".
> 
> I guess I'm still a bit stuck in the era where the target had very
> limited resources. For first time users, this is much easier, and for a
> workshop, I've indeed supplied a dozen boards that had editors,
> compilers and library headers pre-installed for immediate development.
> 
> That will work for hello-world style apps, but for more complex projects
> that draw in a few dozen complex libraries (gstreamer comes to mind)
> this is not going to be very satisfactory.
> 
> 
> What he was asking for was "How do I use the cross-compile environment
> to develop my own application and run it on the target machine?"
> 
> 

https://github.com/balister/meta-sdr/wiki/CrossCompile

IS what I tell people for GNU Radio. The generic method should be OK for
other cases. I need to collect techniques to move output onto the target.

Philip