Re: My thoughts on the future of OE?

Mike Looijmans
2014-05-02T14:18:43Z

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?"

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Mike Looijmans