RE: How to add tools to the NCS toolchain?

rgrr2 — Wed, 15 May 2024 20:13:24 GMT

Hi Amanda,

thanks for the links. Especially the last one is interesting.

My idea using "make" is something like

> make conf-blabla

and in the Makefile

.PHONY: conf-blabla

conf-blabla:

west build ... lengthy west invocation

So the Makefile gives the user the choice of some defined configurations, no west parameters to remember.

If "make" appears in the tools I really would be grateful.

Regards

Hardy

RE: How to add tools to the NCS toolchain?

Amanda Hsieh — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:49:21 GMT

Hi,

[quote user=""]Reasoning for "make": parameterization of west takes sometimes long command lines (Kconfig / DT parameters). I want to do this via preconfigured make targets. [/quote]

You can add long command lines (Kconfig / DT parameters) into a CMake file. See Application CMakeLists.txt, and Adding files and configuring CMake.

[quote user=""]Also "make" is a good way to integrate NCS into eclipse.[/quote]

To my knowledge, Cmake is already supported there (albeit being a bit of an uphill struggle to get going, please see this: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/discussions/69812)

[quote user=""]I want to have "make" included in the NCS toolchain. As far as I can see, on Windows the tools (in toolchains/xxx/usr/bin) is msys2 based. My question is where to place a request to add tools?[/quote]

I have forwarded it to the team, but no promise.

Regards,
Amanda H.