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GNU/Linux based toolchain generation for RaspberryPi

Toolchain is an important part of embedded software development. There are cases when developers can simply rely on hardware vendor provided toolchain but there are also cases when they need to have a customized toolchain. One of key feature of eLBaaS is it offers the ability to customize toolchain generation for GNU/Linux based operating systems. Using this feature a developer can create a sandboxed environment in a host system that is similar to the target OS.

During a product development stage different product may require different types of target OS, some OS may need support for different programming languages like, Java, Python that require different runtime environment and the ability to prepare the target build environment in a hassle-free way is a keyfactor. Developer needing to spend too much time on toolchain preparation or figuring out how to generate the target toolchain may create substantial amount of hinderance in development and it can be particularly true for teams with less experience. Application developers highly rely on third-party libraries which needs to be compiled for target architecture, eLBaaS provides the ability to add such third-party libraries into the toolchain generation stage therefore redily available for the endusers.

To give an idea how to use a toolchain, download the RaspberryPi4 based toolchain with QT5 support from this link and checkout the Youtube video on how to use such a toolchain.