[yocto] "external"/"internal" SDK

robert.berger@gmane gmane at reliableembeddedsystems.com
Tue Jan 17 22:32:11 PST 2017


Hi,

On 2017-01-18 04:54, Joshua Watt wrote:
>
>> external SDK:
>> everything the same as above, but for some packages there should be
>> only libraries - no header files.
> Is there a reason why you want the libraries without the headers? It
> doesn't seem particularly useful to be able to link a program against a
> library, but not have the header to use its API (especially in an SDK,
> where the point is to build program against the libraries).

I think they are worried about revealing their "internal" API since they 
don't want their customers to access it directly.

>
> As an alternative, there might be a way to completely exclude those
> particular packages from the external SDK instead of removing the header
> files (see below)?

I'll try to clarify this with them.

...

> Hopefully it will at least give a place to start.

Certainly. This gives me some more ideas how other people would do it.

Thanks!

> Joshua Watt






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