Introduction to Ac6 System Workbench
- Overview
- Eclipse
- Kernel and modules
- Platforms and Root file-systems
- The build system architecture
- Building individual packages
- Building platforms
- Building Root file-systems
- Developing with System Workbench
- Creating an application
- Building the application
- Debugging
| Exercise: |
Building a root file system using a pre-defined platform template |
Developing applications with System Workbench
- Creating a Linux program
- Creating a library
- Static library
- Shared library
- Debugging on the target
- Using an SSH connection
- Debugging shared libraries
| Exercise: |
Create a small program, with a custom shared library, and debug it on the target |
Creating a Linux Platform
- Creating a platform project
- Importing a pre-configured platform
- Creating a platform from scratch
- Configuring the platform
- Source and installation directories
- Link to a target Rootfs
- Build configurations
| Exercise: |
Create and configure a minimum platform from scratch, using library packages |
- Populating the build environment
- Import packages in the build environment
- Build individual packages
- Build the whole platform
| Exercise: |
Build the platform, manually building some packages |
- Adding packages to a platform
- From a library
- From an existing Eclipse project
| Exercise: |
Add the previously developed application to the platform |
- Creating a new package
- Specifying the source
- Patching the official sources
- Adding package-specific resources
- Adding package configuration directives
| Exercise: |
Add a new open-source package to the platform |
| Exercise: |
Compiling and customizing the kernel |
Compiling and customizing the kernel
- Kernel projects
- Creating a kernel project
- Selecting the architecture and configuration
- Customizing the configuration
- Compiling the kernel
| Exercise: |
Configure and compile the kernel in the platform |
- Module projects
- Creating a module project
- Linking it to a kernel project
- Creating and building modules
| Exercise: |
Add and configure an external module |
Creating a Root File-System
- Creating a rootfs project
- Creating the rootfs structure
- Add files to the base structure
- Edit standard configuration files
- File systems
- Initialization
- Starting applications
- Creating and populating the root filesystem
- Linking the file system to the platform
- Installing platform components
- Installing libraries
| Exercise: |
Create the root filesystem for the platform just built |
Managing Package Libraries
- Creating a Library
- Adding packages from a platform
- Creating packages in the Library
- Importing a library
- Exporting a library
| Exercise: |
Create a library with the kernel, module and application created |
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