[meta-freescale] setting up cross-compiling understanding problems

[Daiane Angolini]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:26 PM,  <Matthias.Heise at atlas-elektronik.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> you have been very helpful so far with my different noob-problems – thank
> you very much.
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> Now I was trying to set up cross-compiling for my wandboard (finally made
> it) and have some difficulties to understand what was happening there and
> why J
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> Please be so kind and enlighten me, this is what I tried :
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> First of all I copied and renamed the core-image-minimal.bb and added some
> packages, bitbaked and run it.
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> Then for cross-compiling :
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> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/adt-manual/adt-manual.html#using-the-adt-installer
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> As this was strongly recommended there I first downloaded the adt-installer,
> extracted it and set up the adt_installer.conf like this (the same also with
> a bitbaked adt-installer) :
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> YOCTOADT_TARGETS="arm"
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> YOCTOADT_QEMU="Y"
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> YOCTOADT_NFS_UTIL="Y"
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> YOCTOADT_ROOTFS_arm="minimal sato-sdk"
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> YOCTOADT_TARGET_SYSROOT_IMAGE_arm="minimal"
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> YOCTOADT_TARGET_MACHINE_arm="wandboard-quad"
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> YOCTOADT_TARGET_SYSROOT_LOC_arm="$HOME/test-yocto/$YOCTOADT_TARGET_MACHINE_arm"
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> Then I executed the adt_installer script, it finished but had some errors
> downloading images (probably as I have a “custom” machine, right ?)
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> I didn’t change the location so that the /opt/poky/1.7 location was used.
> However there were no scripts added to that folder
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> After a few tries and half a day I found a tutorial which did this:
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> bitbake meta-toolchain
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> sudo ./tmp/deploy/sdk/poky-eglibc-x86_64-arm-toolchain-<version>.sh
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> source
> /opt/poky/<version>/environment-setup-armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
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> then after pointing Eclipse to /opt/poky/1.7 and
> /opt/poky1.7/sysroots/cortexa9hf……
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> I was able to compile. (get 3 strange “infos” however : Missing PROG
> arm-poky… -dlltool, Missing PROG arm-poky… -mt, Missing PROG dlltool)
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> What I am wondering about is that this last procedure is headlined as
> optional in the above mentioned manual, which brings me to the idea that I
> did something wrong before…
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> Please comment,

I´m trying to understand what you expect. I didn´t get the question here.

However, it made me think about, maybe, we could include this
procedure in our UG. Would you be able to write down the step-by-step
you followed?

I can follow it and double check it.

Daiane
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> Thank you very much,
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> Best regards,
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> Mat
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