From patchwork Fri Aug 25 22:25:53 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Adrian Freihofer X-Patchwork-Id: 29514 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83034FC616B for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:27:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ed1-f44.google.com (mail-ed1-f44.google.com [209.85.208.44]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.2568.1693002468337200657 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:27:48 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com header.s=20221208 header.b=PB2gzdsV; spf=pass (domain: gmail.com, ip: 209.85.208.44, mailfrom: adrian.freihofer@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ed1-f44.google.com with SMTP id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-5298e43bb67so2973398a12.1 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:27:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1693002466; x=1693607266; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:date:subject:cc:to:from:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=AoenDSfxEhrJSXJzwNF0qUZi4ZdzROlnUR735GqJdd4=; b=PB2gzdsVJSl9JWcCzCl4HPrI7M0k2kadcvm6dkRuAxwlPQM9e0k8pYpY6QXcYy2xJ9 LXAfHBjB6d8thCWDqqp+X2uDKnh+KATG0h97Gve7xkPNLl+SzwL+MzRemJesX0Vaxhi4 bve32JdnnrsiYNPJCR9NqMJEPLSAcAolbjchMk2TY1jeXivZZYkK2DzQcD2Bs9FYClo+ BIsvoJ/RHBknTSHtBYoz6fyt+ZII2qEItC3zJ+hsPbuXCuI9NAHgQMk9RSQXWZ7GZBaQ 32nZdsQMeRUqjr9NaULc1ZZ5K85eBJcPKz+RZGSaAYxdrOQDuFZra0oc418Wu7SwDEeY gQxQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1693002466; x=1693607266; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:date:subject:cc:to:from:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=AoenDSfxEhrJSXJzwNF0qUZi4ZdzROlnUR735GqJdd4=; b=hC9+mIqy5ptsBb49VvuDqMk6ObvrOXF0TjDdXUTa1xAMoML9myuBMoxToFWZt2oGu+ hDQlFnylmh8mj1PrNXhVvHit9EdwVN00OeJ0ytODSY26M/cDzNoOXMX7eauY0LcHjrTV z6cTFlzd54Q9mlcKxn7V7aM8u0jAOSWDrHbxP/dzPUjfeLrBhH8T048aPtwovKBvkXoT eGmixYFRWwFm2t9QCeDsWhqN9COgmTPG0nV5K5KBHUTd65iDn27NF+jK4f7m56B8VR9Q uXmToaJ95ScyX/Tsi2bMduH3R8k1kZG3FN6uhqsYPJlJiEKukw6SEP2F/pYRHVw3OLDR E1rw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yw+4l+q+6SkCUBi/ifgy0CZszuDjLicv4YVc0phu4wnQliVzYr+ byxKhGj/ur3W+Od87kEtjbPj5JNqkMY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IFRz/Bbpn0Qhvlngj9jUsU0d3NifUBcr8Q6/0A2ESMgXYtCcauaK4jTA2c6Wnz/rfev7r0c8A== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:1e93:b0:521:ef0f:8ef9 with SMTP id f19-20020a0564021e9300b00521ef0f8ef9mr21500180edf.19.1693002466469; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from t14s-af.fritz.box ([2a02:169:59a6:0:5488:f785:9061:cf6c]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n24-20020aa7d058000000b0050488d1d376sm1449057edo.0.2023.08.25.15.27.45 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:27:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Adrian Freihofer X-Google-Original-From: Adrian Freihofer To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Cc: Adrian Freihofer Subject: [PATCH v3 13/13] docs: cover devtool ide Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:25:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20230825222711.2735745-14-adrian.freihofer@siemens.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.41.0 In-Reply-To: <20230825222711.2735745-1-adrian.freihofer@siemens.com> References: <20230825222711.2735745-1-adrian.freihofer@siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:27:53 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/186740 Signed-off-by: Adrian Freihofer --- documentation/sdk-manual/extensible.rst | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/documentation/sdk-manual/extensible.rst b/documentation/sdk-manual/extensible.rst index 9e08e57a4e7..d05d4e36aa7 100644 --- a/documentation/sdk-manual/extensible.rst +++ b/documentation/sdk-manual/extensible.rst @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ all the commands. devtool quick reference. -Three ``devtool`` subcommands provide entry-points into +Four ``devtool`` subcommands provide entry-points into development: - *devtool add*: Assists in adding new software to be built. @@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ development: - *devtool modify*: Sets up an environment to enable you to modify the source of an existing component. +- *devtool ide*: Generates a configuration for an IDE. + - *devtool upgrade*: Updates an existing recipe so that you can build it for an updated set of source files. @@ -632,6 +634,99 @@ command: proceed with your work. If you do use this command, realize that the source tree is preserved. +Use ``devtool ide`` to generate an configuration for the IDE +------------------------------------------------------------ + +``devtool ide`` automatically configures the IDE for cross-compiling and remote debugging. +The IDE is configured to call for example cmake directly. This has several advantages. +First of all it is much faster than using e.g. ``devtool build``. But it also allows to +use the very good integration of build tools like cmake or gdb with VSCode directly. + +Two different use cases are supported: + +- Generate the IDE configuration for a workspace created by ``devtool modify``. + +- Generate the IDE configuration for using a cross-toolchain as provided by + ``bitbake meta-ide-support build-sysroots``. + +Assuming the development environment is set up correctly and a workspace has been created +for the recipe using ``devtool modify recipe``, the following command can create the +configuration for VSCode in the recipe workspace: + + $ devtool ide recipe core-image-minimal --target root@192.168.7.2 + +What this command does exactly depends on the recipe or the build tool used by the recipe. +Currently, only CMake and Meson are supported natively. + +For a recipe which inherits cmake it does: + +- Prepare the SDK by calling bitbake core-image-minimal, gdb-cross, qemu-native... + +- Generate a cmake-preset with configures cmake to use exactly the same environent and + the same cmake-cache configuration as used by ``bitbake recipe``. The cmake-preset referres + to the per-recipe-sysroot of the recipe. + + Currently Configure, Build and Test presets are supported. Test presets execute the test + binaries with Qemu. + +- Generates a helper script to handle the do_install with pseudo + +- Generates some helper scripts to start the gdbserver on the target device + +- Generates the ``.vscode`` folder containing the following files: + + - c_ccp_properties.json: configure the code navigation + + - extensions.json: Recommend the extensions which are used. + + - launch.json: Provide a configuration for remote debugging with gdb-cross and gdbserver. + The debug-symbols are searched in the build-folder, the per-recipe-sysroot and the rootfs-dbg + folder which is provided by the image. + + - settings.json: confgure the indexer to ignore the build folders + + - tasks.json: Provide some helpers for running + + - do_install and ``devtool deploy-target`` + + - start the gdbserver via ssh + +For a recipe which inherits meson a similar configuration is generated. +Because there is nothing like a meson-preset a wrapper script for meson is generated. + +For some special recipes and use cases a per-recipe-sysroot based SDK is not suitable. +Therefore devtool ide also supports setting up the shared sysroots environment and generating +a 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. + + $ devtool ide none core-image-minimal + +In case of a shared sysroot SDK the configuration which gets generated for VSCode exposes the +cross-tool-chain as a cmake-kit. If a cmake project is loaded into VSCode the cross-toolchain +can be selected for compiling. + +The default IDE is VSCode. Some hints about using VSCode: + +- 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. + A cmake kit might be activated by ``Ctrl + Shift + p``, type cmake quick start, + if not preset file is in the wokspace. + +- 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 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. + +Additionally ``--ide=none`` is supported. +With the none IDE some generic configurations files like .gdbinit files and some helper scripts +are generated. + Use ``devtool upgrade`` to Create a Version of the Recipe that Supports a Newer Version of the Software -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------