This change changes the semantics of the environment variable
ZEPHYR_SDK_INSTALL_DIR to allow the use of 3rd party toolchains
alongside the Zephyr SDK's host tools.
Specifically, setting ZEPHYR_SDK_INSTALL_DIR now indicates that the
Zephyr SDK host tools are to be used. But not necessarily that the
Zephyr SDK's toolchain is to be used.
The documentation is also changed to explain this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Boe <sebastian.boe@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>
