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7 OpenADK has a nice configuration tool similar to the one you can
8 find in the http://www.kernel.org/[Linux kernel] or in
9 http://www.busybox.net/[Busybox]. Note that you can *and should build
10 everything as a normal user*. There is no need to be root to configure
11 and use OpenADK. The first step is to run the configuration
18 For each menu entry in the configuration tool, you can find associated
19 help that describes the purpose of the entry.
21 image::openadk-menu.png[]
23 First of all you need to choose if you want to build a Linux firmware
24 or a bare-metal toolchain. Linux is choosen as default.
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28 After that you should select your target architecture.
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32 Now you can select your target system, endianess, cpu and other stuff.
34 image::openadk-task.png[]
36 If you want to compile some predefined appliance tasks, you can select it in +Tasks+.
37 You can later simply add your own tasks, which is a collection of options, packages,
38 kernel modules or features, runtime configuration and more. They can either be placed
39 inside the +tasks+ directory or in your own custom directory that you pass via
40 +ADK_CUSTOM_TASKS_DIR+ to make.
42 When you are ready exit and save. You can always redefine the
43 configuration using +make menuconfig+.
45 Once everything is configured, the configuration tool generates a
46 +.config+ file that contains the description of your configuration. It
47 will be used by the Makefiles to do what's needed.
55 You *should never* use +make -jN+ with OpenADK: it does not support 'top-level
56 parallel make'. Instead, use the +ADK_MAKE_JOBS+ option in +Global settings+ to
57 tell OpenADK to run each package compilation with +make -jN+.
59 The `make` command will generally perform the following steps:
61 * download source files
62 * configure, build and install required host tools
63 * configure, build and install the cross-compiling toolchain
64 * build a kernel image, if selected
65 * build/install selected target packages
66 * build a bootloader, if selected
67 * create a root filesystem in selected format
69 OpenADK output is stored in several subdirectories:
71 * +firmware/+ where all the images and packages are stored.
73 * +build_<system>_<libc>_<arch>_<abi>/+ where all the components except for the
74 cross-compilation toolchain are built. The directory contains one
75 subdirectory for each of these components.
77 * +target_<system>_<libc>_<arch>_<abi>/+ which contains a hierarchy similar to a root filesystem
78 hierarchy. This directory contains the installation of the
79 cross-compilation toolchain and all the userspace packages selected
80 for the target. However, this directory is 'not' intended to be
81 the root filesystem for the target: it contains a lot of development
82 files, unstripped binaries and libraries that make it far too big
83 for an embedded system. These development files are used to compile
84 libraries and applications for the target that depend on other
87 * +root_<system>_<libc>_<arch>_<abi>/+ which contains the complete root filesystem for
88 the target. One exception, it doesn't have the correct
89 permissions (e.g. setuid for the busybox binary) for some files.
90 Therefore, this directory *should not be used on your target*.
91 Instead, you should use one of the images or archives built in the
92 +firmware/+ directory. If you need an
93 extracted image of the root filesystem for booting over NFS, then
94 use the tarball image generated in +firmware/+ and extract it as
95 root. Compared to +build_*/+, +target_*/+ contains only the files and
96 libraries needed to run the selected target applications: the
97 development files are (exception: if any dev packages are selected)
98 not present, the binaries are stripped.
100 * +host_<gnu_host_name>/+ contains the installation of tools compiled for the host
101 that are needed for the proper execution of OpenADK
103 * +host_build_<gnu_host_name>/+ contains the build directories of tools compiled for the host
104 that are needed for the proper execution of OpenADK
106 * +toolchain_<system>_<libc>_<arch>_<abi>>/+ contains just the cross-compilation toolchain.
107 Can be used together with +target_<system>_<libc>_<arch>_<abi>/+ for other projects. Toolchain
110 * +toolchain_build_<system>_<libc>_<arch>_<abi>/+ contains the build directories for the various
111 components of the cross-compilation toolchain.
113 * +pkg_<system>_<libc>_<arch>_<abi>/+ contains stamp files and file lists for the various components.
115 The command, +make menuconfig+ and +make+, are the
116 basic ones that allow to easily and quickly generate images fitting
117 your needs, with all the applications you enabled.
119 More details about the "make" command usage are given in