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Riotboard Yocto  : Part5 : Application Development using ADT

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Contents:
Part1 : Environment setup and initial build
Part2 : Build u-boot using Yocto
Part3 : Build Kernel using Yocto
Part4 : Package Development using Yocto
Part5 : Application Development using ADT     <-- You are here

 

 

Previously we build a package in yocto and managed to get it bundled with sdcard image.

 

Users developing apps for a target hardware need a development platform.

The development platform consists of  primarily Toolchain & IDE.

 

For developing apps we need to get the toolchain first.

The toolchain can be either a  pre-built tarball  or build manually using yocto


As usual :  we will start with yocto environment set-up:

~$ cd fsl-arm-yocto-bsp

~/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp$  MACHINE=riotboard source fsl-setup-release.sh -b build -e fb

~/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp/build$

 

 

 

Using pre-built ADT tarball:

 

In my previous blog we had built a helloworld package using the yocto sources available locally.

but everyone may not be interested in wasting at-least 30GB disk space just for developing a Riotboard  app.

 

Its better to use a pre-built toolchain from Yocto repositories:

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.5.2/toolchain/i686/

 

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we will download the one for armv7a :

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.5.2/toolchain/i686/poky-eglibc-i686-core-image-sato-armv7a-vfp-neon-toolchain-1.5.1.sh

 

Once downloaded run the installer with defaults.

./poky-eglibc-i686-meta-toolchain-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-toolchain-1.5.1.sh

 

accepting the defaults will install toolchain to /opt/poky/1.5.1


We will verify the downloaded toolchain by compiling  a c code.

setting up toolchain in environment .

 

cross compile and test a simple code.


myapp.c

#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{ printf("Hello Riot \n");
}

 

~$ mkdir riot_apps
~$ cd riot_apps/
~/riot_apps$
~/riot_apps$ source /opt/poky/1.5.2/environment-setup-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
~/riot_apps$ arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  myapp.c

 

Now copy the generated binary to Riotboard and execute .

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Build toolchain using Yocto:

 

The toolchain we used above is nice and good (thanks to yocto guys),  but what if you have a custom package or a newly introduced library to integrate to toolchain.

Well we need to build one.

 

The build process is fairly simple.

 

Fetch all sources to build the toolchain:

bitbake -c fetchall meta-toolchain

Build the toolchain:

bitbake meta-toolchain

enter toolchain SDK directory:

cd /home/tushar/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp/build/tmp/deploy/sdk

Install the toolchain we just build:

./poky-eglibc-i686-meta-toolchain-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-toolchain-1.5.2.sh

accepting the defaults will install toolchain to /opt/poky/1.5.2


Time to test the toolchain.

compiling c source used earlier in this blog.

cd  riot_apps

source /opt/poky/1.5.2/environment-setup-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  myapp.c

 

Now copy the generated binary to yocto and verify the working status..

 

 

Next we will try to compile and test a i2c user space driver .

you can use the  xtrinsic driver i wrote earlier.

 

using the previous settings

arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  xtrinsic_driver.c

It works..

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Plz check ADT Manual for more information.


I hope you liked the blog, let me know by comments if any challenges.

I will do my best to answer them.