It is very inconvenient to maintain an application that both runs on a
Zephyr board and an out-of-tree board.
It forces one to write build scripts like this in the app:
if(BOARD STREQUAL my_out_of_tree_board)
set(BOARD_ROOT some/out/of/tree/board/path)
endif()
To avoid this we change the semantics of BOARD_ROOT. Instead of it
being a path to the board root it is now a prioritized list of board
root directories. Zephyr will append ZEPHYR_BASE to BOARD_ROOT.
This ensures that Zephyr boards can be used when the out-of-tree board
directory can not supply the requested board.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
Fixes issue #7184.
Use $BOARD_ROOT to find correct list of supported boards.
This is needed since the user can set this variable to any directory.
Pass $BOARD_ROOT to usage.cmake where it is called.
Signed-off-by: Håkon Øye Amundsen <haakon.amundsen@nordicsemi.no>
Introducing CMake is an important step in a larger effort to make
Zephyr easy to use for application developers working on different
platforms with different development environment needs.
Simplified, this change retains Kconfig as-is, and replaces all
Makefiles with CMakeLists.txt. The DSL-like Make language that KBuild
offers is replaced by a set of CMake extentions. These extentions have
either provided simple one-to-one translations of KBuild features or
introduced new concepts that replace KBuild concepts.
This is a breaking change for existing test infrastructure and build
scripts that are maintained out-of-tree. But for FW itself, no porting
should be necessary.
For users that just want to continue their work with minimal
disruption the following should suffice:
Install CMake 3.8.2+
Port any out-of-tree Makefiles to CMake.
Learn the absolute minimum about the new command line interface:
$ cd samples/hello_world
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -DBOARD=nrf52_pca10040 ..
$ cd build
$ make
PR: zephyrproject-rtos#4692
docs: http://docs.zephyrproject.org/getting_started/getting_started.html
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Boe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
Håkon Øye Amundsen