From patchwork Tue Sep 5 16:51:23 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Adrian Freihofer X-Patchwork-Id: 30004 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 50632CA1008 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2023 16:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wr1-f43.google.com (mail-wr1-f43.google.com [209.85.221.43]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.27508.1693933183446393178 for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:59:43 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com header.s=20221208 header.b=SZJ99x1T; spf=pass (domain: gmail.com, ip: 209.85.221.43, mailfrom: adrian.freihofer@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wr1-f43.google.com with SMTP id ffacd0b85a97d-31ad9155414so2141377f8f.3 for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:59:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1693933182; x=1694537982; darn=lists.openembedded.org; 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=SZJ99x1Tvv0lfdIEnmiw8OLmmcM87Qmy7H3sv4ruE4sA3vrJi6cNdYdkvp0018+COj 85RLf38Js1nIHJMetMFlGcpRRM2It3IriPe77EcBXk02XqkvT2Ty5MatzR4micE4SxWj WJ6crfhU6KRhOMbAciP81mpWfHaQEK2nl1LpNh6S5b6418iIWV9dYtkjqp+uwZz9W60d sWD6DsvQaHN9fQQpyApxwk4YoOCtRBNGAWSLyPJSFiY+8GpXevyLKiK0tmdI0glSSUT4 Q0cYzgXapKE0XS4YOJGTulWhCxTJI5QxqOE2eFXfQc1em9pfd/m4/T7saVgiYecsL3FG 1eXQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1693933182; x=1694537982; 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=FCm/rK1FPg2ZBjcvA//xkJug5PIu14keblkNdd05sc59jGcoEkTVUC0R64CuSJi+JH 1v4iY4i7hUxHa18p6F08tk4i0eBdzAyvf9NKCHVztqBYS7iZOcasqyr6SjlJ83LBqbLP KzgHorBQ4CGRrXnOTi8O38HdgKhydgCRdGXtk2dGSUlA/GrEsGzuMa0FVmIP7+YDcHzk rDyNDXAiAYACeJIr15LnLSVC6nwGZMa5gqgpQ/edEYCVqkdV7qI19+2Bjuy/93H8kn5L MDK2TO1JtFmWp+JurstRluS4TKfUPpzrwTM5/tTG5xVXTiPU7bPEnWwbQAdz34ZRx3qW ShQg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YxuhIb63K2c9aeU0c8CpQX2UkbewRyhO0GaZEvBtNMckco3KKk0 1w4VXjJOEHRfpbaORS+0q4PW4S3/aEU= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IEK05y7OhDOmZUJhRDe8Auo9Y+Q5BqTfauzv5bnjnteqEl80b30FWMINrF+Iu4v/2kn3tOIDw== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:5450:0:b0:31c:84e9:20fd with SMTP id w16-20020a5d5450000000b0031c84e920fdmr367525wrv.13.1693933181674; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from t14s-af.fritz.box ([2a02:169:59a6:0:5488:f785:9061:cf6c]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c7-20020a5d4147000000b0031de43fe9bfsm18146269wrq.0.2023.09.05.09.59.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:59:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Adrian Freihofer X-Google-Original-From: Adrian Freihofer To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Cc: Adrian Freihofer Subject: [OE-core][PATCH v5 14/14] docs: cover devtool ide Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 18:51:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20230905165913.2560907-15-adrian.freihofer@siemens.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.41.0 In-Reply-To: <20230905165913.2560907-1-adrian.freihofer@siemens.com> References: <20230905165913.2560907-1-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 ; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:59:44 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/187246 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------