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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook

You're reading from   Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook Practical recipes to help you leverage the power of Yocto to build exciting Linux-based systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788399210
Length 456 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alex Gonzalez Alex Gonzalez
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Table of Contents (7) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Build System FREE CHAPTER 2. The BSP Layer 3. The Software Layer 4. Application Development 5. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling 6. Other Books You May Enjoy

Describing workflows for application development


The recommended way to approach application development with the Yocto Project is to use either the standard or the extensible Yocto SDK as an iterative interface between the application developers and the system integrators. The latter feed the new software into the Yocto build system to produce and share new SDKs between the application and BSP developers.

However, there are other application development workflows that are useful and these will be introduced next.

How to do it...

We will see how the following development workflows are applied to application development:

  • External development: When using Yocto SDKs
  • Working directory development: When using the Yocto build directory
  • External source development: When using the Yocto build system but configuring an external directory for the source

How it works...

Let's see how the different development workflows work in more detail.

External development

This workflow uses either the standard or the extensible...

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