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diff --git a/README.host.sdk b/README.host.sdk new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb05f76f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.host.sdk @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Using Poky generated host SDK +============================= + +How to build host SDK +==== + +You need to setup Poky and then run one command: + +$ bitbake meta-toolchain + +Result would be tarball in tmp/deploy/sdk/ with everything needed to build for +your target device. Unpack this in / directory - toolchain will reside in +/usr/local/poky/arm/ dir. + +Usage of SDK +===== + +First add toolchain into PATH: + +$ export PATH=/usr/local/poky/arm/bin/:$PATH + +Compiler is 'arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc'. Building 'helloworld' example is +simple: + +$ arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc hello.c -o hello +$ file hello +hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.14, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped + +Autotools and SDK +====== + +'Configure' scripts allow to specify Host, Target, Build architecture. To build +with Poky SDK you need to specify: + +./configure --target=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi + + +Using packages from Poky +======== + +During development it is often situation that we want to use some libraries +which are available in Poky build. Their packages need to be unpacked to +/usr/local/poky/arm/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/ directory. + +For example to add libiw (from wireless-tools package) you need to unpack two +packages: + +libiw29_29-pre20-r0_armv5te.ipk +libiw-dev_29-pre20-r0_armv5te.ipk |