From 776834d63b655fcb160b9352bc18e4a4c4d4de0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:25:11 -0700 Subject: documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml: Garman's partial review comments (From yocto-docs rev: 329401ac13e60381ca74a617ae398586cbd5dfed) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml') diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml index 797d79f5ad..53e6904545 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml @@ -19,21 +19,22 @@ The Yocto Project provides toolchains that allow you to develop your application outside of the Yocto Project build system for specific hardware. - These toolchains (called meta-toolchains) contain cross-development tools like compilers, - linkers, and debuggers that build your application for your target. - The Yocto Project also provides images that have toolchains set up for supported - architectures. + These toolchains (called meta-toolchains) contain cross-development tools such as compilers, + linkers, and debuggers that build your application for your target device. + The Yocto Project also provides images that have toolchains for supported + architectures included within the image. + This allows you to compile, debug, or profile applications directly on the target device. See Reference: Images for a listing of the image types that Yocto Project supports. Using the BitBake tool you can build a meta-toolchain or meta-toolchain-sdk target, - which is in the form of a tarball. + which generates a tarball. Unpacking this tarball into the /opt/poky directory on your host produces a setup script (e.g. /opt/poky/environment-setup-i586-poky-linux) that - you can source to initialize your build environment. + you can source to initialize your build environment. Sourcing this script adds the compiler, QEMU scripts, QEMU binary, a special version of pkgconfig and other useful utilities to the PATH variable used by the Yocto Project @@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ that builds your application specify to use the cross-compiler arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc and linker arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld, which are part of the - meta-toolchain you have previously established: + meta-toolchain you would have previously established: CC=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc; LD=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld; @@ -69,13 +70,13 @@ The current release of the Yocto Project supports the Eclipse IDE plug-in to make developing software easier for the application developer. The plug-in provides capability extensions to the graphical IDE to allow - for cross compilation, deployment and execution of the output in a QEMU + for cross compilation, deployment and execution of the application within a QEMU emulation session. Support of the Eclipse plug-in also allows for cross debugging and profiling. Additionally, the Eclipse plug-in provides a suite of tools that allows the developer to perform remote profiling, tracing, collection of - power data, collection of latency data and collection of performance data. + power consumption data, collection of latency data and collection of performance data. The current release of the Yocto Project no longer supports the Anjuta plug-in. @@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ The QEMU images shipped with the Yocto Project contain complete toolchains - native to specific target architectures. + native to their target architectures. This support allows you to develop applications within QEMU similar to the way you would using a normal host development system. @@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ - Several mechanisms exist that let you connect into the system running on the + Several mechanisms exist that let you connect to the system running on the QEMU emulator: QEMU provides a framebuffer interface that makes standard -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf