RE: [Ltib] ltib newbie question

[Stuart Hughes]

Excellent 

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 10:42 +0530, Vijayekkumaran M- TLS, Chennai.
wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> Thank you very much for your mail.
> 
> It has given me all the necessary details. 
> 
> I was able to use the merge facility and was able to put my files into the
> image.
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Vijay
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Hughes [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:49 PM
> To: Vijayekkumaran M- TLS, Chennai.
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Ltib] ltib newbie question
> 
> Hi Vijay,
> 
> This depends really on whether it is your own application or a general
> package that other people may want (e.g. an extension of the
> distribution package set). The difference is purely the level of
> integration.
> 
> If you are building your own application and you don't really want tight
> integration with ltib, but you just want it to show up on your image.
> The best method is to use the 'merge directory facility'.  This lets you
> drop executables/files into a directory and ltib will simply place them
> into the target image.  This is most appropriate when say you have an
> application that you build with and IDE or other tools and you're not
> interested in packaging into ltib.  Remember, if you do this, you need
> to make sure that you use the same cross toolchain that ltib is using to
> build it's own packages (so you build something compatible).  The
> easiest way to do this is to invoke './ltib -m shell' which will put you
> in the ltib build environment.   This will then have the cross toolchain
> first in your path and so gcc, ld, ar are actually aliases to the cross
> toolchain versions.  More importantly, this makes sure that the
> interface headers and libraries from your ltib instance are used.  Once
> in the ltib shell environment, you can start your ide or run any other
> development tool as normal.
>   
> If you are adding a package that is already available on the internet
> (lets say some open source project), it's probably worth adding this
> package fully into ltib.  This involves writing an rpm spec file (there
> is a template for this) and adding the name of the spec file to a couple
> of places and updating a Kconfig file (.lkc file).
> 
> Both these methods are discussed in the FAQ.  Take a look at the FAQ
> linked from http://www.bitshrine.org/ (see the section "Can I add files
> to the target root file system without creating a package" and "How can
> I add a completely new package to the rootf filesystem"
> 
> If this is unclear after reading the FAQ, please feel free to ask more
> questions.
> 
> 
> BTW: please remove your signature disclaimer when posting to the list as
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> 
> Regards, Stuart
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 12:22 +0530, Vijayekkumaran M- TLS, Chennai.
> wrote:
> >  
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I am a newbie to ltib and some limited exposure to building linux.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I am able to build with the downloaded packages and get an image.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Now I need to build my application code also using tlib and need it to
> > make it part of the image.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Could you please give me some pointers about how to do this such as
> > which file to edit or things like that?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards
> > 
> > Vijay
> > 
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