[cmake-developers] FYI: Cross compiling ideas...

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

just FYI some input on what people would like to have when cross compiling.
Like uploading executables to the target in try_run(), installing to a target 
using something like scp, etc.

Alex


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Date: Thursday 16 February 2012, 14:32:21
From: Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org>
To: neundorf at kde.org, "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org>

torsdagen den 16 februari 2012 12.34.16 skrev  Alexander Neundorf:
> > one thought about build systems and remote
> > installation that i'll bounce off of you on irc or by email ...
> 
> Like make install should do scp or something ?

This is too off-topic for ev-membership; but wanted to comment on this anyway.
Qt has a tool called 'runonphone' for symbian. Its a piece of crap, but the 
idea is awesome.

you call this thing with a sis file (we would use deb or rpm) and the tool 
copies it to the device, installs (/replaces)  it and starts it.
Its always started in debugging mode (i.e. gdb) and printf/qdebug go over the 
wire to the stdout of runonphone (running on the host machine).
I know the berlin guys went further and allowed remote debugging in creator, 
personally I never saw this, but why not :)

If you ever developed for android on eclipse you get some idea about the set 
of features that would be useful here.

Thanks for reading! Sorry for rant ;)
-- 
Thomas Zander

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