[Buildroot] How-to export cross-toolchain and libraries to a build server?

Tue Nov 11 13:00:57 UTC 2014

Hello,

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:10:22 +0000, Fabrice Mousset | GEOCEPT GmbH
wrote:

> it works :-)

Cool!

> I have built my BSP with BR2_HOST_DIR (make BR2_HOST_DIR=/opt/crosstools/am335x) and made an archive of it (tar cJf am335x-sdk.tar.xz /opt/crosstools/am335x). Then expand this archive on the build server.
> And it simply works, Jenkins is now able to build Qt5 projects for my board.

Great.

> The SDK is quiet big (about 57MB), but it is a simple and quick solution.

57 MB are you sure? This looks very small to me, when you count the
toolchain + all the Qt5 libraries and headers.

> I will try to spend time on "relocatable SDK generation" in the next weeks to see if an easier/smarter solution is possible.

Great, looking forward to see contributions in this area!

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com