meta-ide-sdk

This is a temporary preview for the devtool ide-sdk plugin. This will either find its way upstream into poky or move to its own layer in https://github.com/siemens

Bootstrap the eSDK

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:afreof/meta-ide-sdk.git
cd meta-ide-sdk
. oe-init-build-env

Working on a recipe's source code

Create the workspace for the recipe and build the SDK

devtool modify cmake-example devtool modify meson-example

devtool ide-sdk cmake-example meson-example core-image-minimal -c --debug-build-config

Start Qemu

runqemu nographic

Working with VSCode

The default IDE is VSCode. Open VSCode in the workspace folder of the recipe: $BUILDIR/workspace/sources/cmake-example

• To work with CMake press Ctrl + Shift + p, type cmake. This will show some possible commands like selecting a CMake preset, compiling or running CTest. Cross-compiled unit tests are executed transparently with qemu-user.

• To work with Meson press Ctrl + Shift + p, type meson. This will show some possible commands like compiling or executing the unit tests.

• For the deployment to the target device, just press Ctrl + Shift + p, type task. Select the install & deploy task.

• For remote debugging, switch to the debugging view by pressing the "play" button with the bug icon on the left side. This will provide a green play button with a drop-down list where a debug configuration can be selected. After selecting one of the generated configurations, press the "play" button.

  Starting a remote debugging sesssion automatically initiates the deployment to the target device. If this is not desired, the "dependsOn": ["install && deploy-target...] parameter of the tasks with "label": "gdbserver start... can be removed from the tasks.json file.

Using another IDE

Additionally --ide=none is supported. With the none IDE parameter some generic configurations files like .gdbinit files and some helper scripts starting the gdbserver remotely on the target device as well as the gdb client on the host are generated.

Working on source code without using a recipe

For some special recipes and use cases a per-recipe sysroot based SDK is not suitable. Therefore devtool ide-sdk also supports setting up the shared sysroots environment and generating IDE configurations referring to the shared sysroots. Recipes leading to a shared sysroot are for example meta-ide-support or shared-sysroots. Also passing none as a recipe name leads to a shared sysroot SDK:

Build the SDK

devtool ide-sdk none core-image-minimal

Working with VSCode and CMake

For VSCode the cross-tool-chain is exposed as a CMake kit. CMake kits are defined in ~/.local/share/CMakeTools/cmake-tools-kits.json. The following example shows how the cross-toolchain can be selected in VSCode. Fist of all we need a folder containing a CMake project. For this example lets create a CMake project and start VSCode::

mkdir kit-test
echo "project(foo VERSION 1.0)" > kit-test/CMakeLists.txt
code kit-test

If there is a CMake project in the workspace cross-compilation is supported:

• Press Ctrl + Shift + P, type CMake: Scan for Kits
• Press Ctrl + Shift + P, type CMake: Select a Kit

Finally most of the features provided by CMake and the IDE should be available.

Using another IDE without a recipe

For other IDEs than VSCode devtool ide-sdk none ... is just a simple wrapper for the setup of the extensible SDK as described in :ref:setting_up_ext_sdk_in_build.

. oe-init-build-env
devtool modify cmake-example
devtool ide-sdk cmake-example core-image-minimal -c --debug-build-config --ide=none
runqemu nographic

# Find cmake-native and save path into variable
grep cmakeExecutable CMakeUserPresets.json

CMAKE_NATIVE="$BUILDDIR/tmp/work/cortexa57-poky-linux/cmake-example/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/cmake"
"$CMAKE_NATIVE" --list-presets
"$CMAKE_NATIVE" --build --preset cmake-example-cortexa57
"$CMAKE_NATIVE" --build --preset cmake-example-cortexa57 --target clean
"$CMAKE_NATIVE" --build --preset cmake-example-cortexa57 --target all
"$CMAKE_NATIVE" --build --preset cmake-example-cortexa57 --target test

Deploy application and start gdbserver on the remote target device

../../temp/cmake-example/install_and_deploy_cmake-example-cortexa57
../../temp/cmake-example/gdbserver_start_1234_-usr-bin-cmake-example_m

Start gdb on the host

GDB_NATIVE=/home/adrian/projets/oss/meta-sdk-ide/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-aarch64/13.2/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/aarch64-poky-linux/aarch64-poky-linux-gdb
"$GDB_NATIVE" -x gdbinit-usr-bin-cmake-example
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