After checked the official document, I still don’t understand this meaning in recipe.
BBCLASSEXTEND="native nativesdk"
BBCLASSEXTEND is a way for the named classes (in this case, native and nativesdk) to run over the recipe to alter them.
The native class makes a version of the recipe (with -native appended to the name) that builds for the build host instead of the build target, so you can execute the binaries during the build. The nativesdk class is similar but builds packages to be executed in the SDK.
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I work with a massive codebase distributed across many repositories and using even more third-party dependencies. The goal is to make the build hermetic and I contemplate using Bazel to achieve it. On the one hand, Bazel has git_repository rule to refer to the external repos in the WORKSPACE file. On the other hand, WORKSPACE files are not loaded recursively, so to get to indirect dependencies I need to build all inclusive WORKSPACE file somehow. I wonder if somebody already tackled that problem using Bazel or some other existing tools. Is there a way to expand the WORKSPACE as part of the build? May be WORKSPACE can #include other (generated) files?
WORKSPACE files can load and then call macros, which gives similar functionality to #include.
A common pattern is each project having a macro which calls macros (for dependencies on other projects) and creates *_archive rules (for dependencies directly on files to download) so it builds. For example, protobuf has protobuf_deps to implement this pattern. If you create a repository with protobuf (using git_repository, or http_archive, or any of the other repository rules), then you can load that macro and call it, and you'll automatically get all the transitive dependencies.
For example (from Chromium):
load("#bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
# This com_google_protobuf repository is required for proto_library rule.
# It provides the protocol compiler binary (i.e., protoc).
http_archive(
name = "com_google_protobuf",
strip_prefix = "protobuf-master",
urls = ["https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/master.zip"],
)
load("#com_google_protobuf//:protobuf_deps.bzl", "protobuf_deps")
protobuf_deps()
I'm showing http_archive because it's easier to work with, but you can easily change it to git_archive if you want.
Another common pattern which makes this all work is the way protobuf_deps checks native.existing_rule before creating each http_archive. That allows you to instantiate a specific version (or from a specific source, etc) of the dependency directly in your WORKSPACE file to override the one protobuf would otherwise bring in.
How I can build local sources and dependancies with flatpak-builder?
I can build local sources
flatpak build ../dictionary ./configure --prefix=/app
I can extract and build application with dependancies with a .json
flatpak-builder --repo=repo dictionary2 org.gnome.Dictionary.json
But no way to build dependancies and local sources? I don't find sources type
like dir or other, only archive, git (no hg?) ...
flatpak-builder is meant to automate the whole build process, with a single entry-point: the JSON manifest.
Everything else it obtains from Git, Bazaar or tarballs. Note that for these the "url" property may be a local URL starting with file://.
(There is indeed no support for Hg. If that's important for you, feel free to request it.)
In addition to that, there are a few more source types (see the flatpak-manifest(5) manpage), which can be used to modify the extracted sources:
file which point to a local file to copy somewhere in the extracted sources;
patch which point to a local patch file to apply to the extracted sources;
script which creates a script in the extracted sources, from an array of commands;
shell which modifies the extracted sources by running an array of commands;
Adding a dir source type might be useful.
However (and I only flatpaked a few apps, and contributed 2 or 3 patches to the code, so I might be completely wrong) care must be taken as this would easily make builds completely unreproducible, which is one thing flatpak-builder tries very hard to enable.
For example, when using a local file source, flatpak-builder will base64-econde the content of that file and use it as a data:text/plain;charset=utf8;base64,<content> URL for the file which it stores in the manifest included inside the final build.
Something similar might be needed for a dir source (tar the folder then base64-encode the content of the tar?), otherwise it would be impossible to reproduce the build. I've just been told (after submitting this answer) that this changed in Git master, in favour of a new flatpak-builder --bundle-sources option. This would probably make it easier to support reproducible builds with a dir source type.
In any case, feel free to start the conversation around a new dir source type in the upstream bug tracker. :)
There's a expermental cli tool if you want to use it https://gitlab.com/csoriano/flatpak-dev-cli
You can read the docs
http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/building-simple-apps.html
http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-builder.html
In a nutshell this is what you need to use flatpak as develop workbench
https://github.com/albfan/gnome-builder/wiki/flatpak
I have 2 application, both uses the same library but the library should be build with a flag enabled in one and disabled in other. this is a static library, so at run time there won't be a conflict in runtime. But the library is separate ie, the application is build separately and the library is separate. In each configuration, the library will be build with a different name which is taken care by the makefile. This can be done manually. but now I need to add it to Yocto.
In yocto, how can I build the same library 2 times in separate configuration?
If you're limited to .bbappend and you don't want to duplicate the recipe, you can add some additional tasks then. In these additional tasks (after regular installation) you can do configuration/compilation/installation once again but with any kind of additional actions/variable overrides or whatever. Something like this:
do_special_configure() {
oe_runmake clean
export MAGIC_VARIABLE="magic value"
do_configure
}
do_special_compile() {
export MAGIC_VARIABLE="magic value"
do_compile
}
fakeroot do_special_install() {
export MAGIC_VARIABLE="magic value"
do_install
}
do_special_configure[dirs] = "${B}"
do_special_compile[dirs] = "${B}"
do_special_install[dirs] = "${B}"
addtask special_configure after do_install before do_special_compile
addtask special_compile after do_special_configure before do_special_install
addtask special_install after do_special_compile before do_package do_populate_sysroot
If the different configurations really produce different installed files, then you'll have no problems adding two separate recipes that just happen to have the same SRC_URI
Well, you can't, not without two recipes.
Your two applications, can't influence in any way, how the library is being used. Thus, your options (as long as both these two applications should be available for the same machine / distro combination) basically are:
Create a 2nd recipe (in this case, likely in your layer, though preferably in the upstream layer). If the recipe you're copying uses in .inc and a small .bb that mostly includes that file, you can easily do just the same. Otherwise, your options are to either copy the recipe and modify it, or to have your new recipe
require <PATH_FROM COREBASE-TO-THE-UPSTREAM-RECIPE>/upstream-recipe.bb
If possible, modify the upstream recipe (preferably using a .bbappend) to simultaneously build both versions that you require.
I'm using SCons to build a very large project, with many buildable sub-projects. I can easily use keyword commands like scons group=ai to build the AI sub-projects with if statements (choosing the right SConscripts based on the keyword command), but I want to make it as easy as possible for others to use scons. Ideally, I'd like to use it like so: scons ai to build the AI components. However, the only single-word command functionality I've found in SCons so far is aliasing, and all the examples are about changing the target. This is not what I want. Since I have a very large project with multiple sub-SConscript files to build the subprojects, I want to call the SConscripts selectively. I've tried code like so:
env.Alias("ai", SConscript("ai/SConscript", 'env'))
but this calls the AI SConscript every time, regardless of whether I use the "ai" alias or a different one. Does anyone know if it is possible to use aliasing this way to selectively call SConscripts based on the alias?
As you mentioned, the Alias() function is only used for targets. I can think of 2 ways to solve this
Alias() can be called multiple times for the same alias with different targets, so you could call it for all targets in each SConscript, then you could build everything in a SConscript. Here's an example of what I mean:
ai/SConscript:
# targets, etc
env.Alias("ai", target1)
env.Alias("ai", target2)
...
env.Alias("ai", targetn)
Another option would be to put some logic in your root SConstruct so it only calls sub-project SConscript's based on a command line argument. This option would require you to use a command line argument of this form: group=ai
I want to build a library with waf, but install it under a different name than the target name. It seems you can do
bld.shlib(..., install_path='${PREFIX}/lib')
but I need to be able to do something like:
bld.shlib(..., install_as='${PREFIX}/lib/xyz')
Also, bld.install_as() wont work, as it doesn't seem to accept a task as a target, and I can't figure out how to turn a task into a node representing the target, so the following doesnt work either:
tgt = bld.shlib(...)
bld.install_as('foo', tgt)
Or alternatively, I need to be able to disable the "lib" prefix that is automatically added to library names, but only for this one library - not for all them during the build, e.g. something like:
bld.shlib(..., libprefix='', install_path="${PREFIX}/lib/")
I know you can set shlib_PATTERN as well, but that seems to affect all libraries under the current environment. We have a pretty complicated build that uses a lot of different environments for building debug/release concurrently, so just cloning the current environment and changing the flag doesnt work either, because it clones the default environment, not the one the target will eventually be built under (because we clone the targets for each environment during build time).
Any thoughts? Thanks!
You can do this:
hello_lib = bld.shlib(
includes='/usr/include/python',
source='a.cpp',
target='hello',
uselib='BOOST_PYTHON',
vnum='0.0.1')
hello_lib.env.cxxshlib_PATTERN = '%s.so'
This code changes naming pattern for only one task.
There are two keyword arguments you can use: "name" and "target". "target" is the name of the file create while Name is the name of the target when using the "--target" argument. Confusing, but here is an example:
bld(features=['cxx','cxxshlib'],
source=src,
includes=inc,
target='OutputName',
name='NameOfTarget',
use=libs,
install_path='${PREFIX}/lib/MyLibs
)
waf configure build install --target=NameOfTarget --prefix=/home/Brian
This creates a shared library "libOutputName.so" and installs it to /home/Brian/lib/MyLib