Re: [yocto] Targeting Windows platform

2018-03-14 Thread Isaac Nickaein
Hi Alex, Sure. I am hoping the management see the benefits and we could start working on this. Besides that, I should give them an estimate on how long would it take implement such thing. I am clueless about how much effort would it take to add a Win32 MACHINE type. By looking at conf/machine/x86

Re: [yocto] Targeting Windows platform

2018-03-14 Thread Alexander Kanavin
On 03/14/2018 09:56 AM, Isaac Nickaein wrote: Thanks for sharing your experience. It is relieving to see that you have the same perspective. I hope there will be an initiative to target Windows and I will be glad to contribute. I don't think waiting for the initiative to happen will get you an

[yocto] Targeting Windows platform

2018-03-14 Thread Isaac Nickaein
Hi Florian, > The SDKs and images are very helpful for (cross platform) CI and deployment. Indeed. I don't know any platform or tool as capable as Yocto to provide such convenience for C++ development. > A real Windows SDK support would be awesome (exspecially for deploying > library dependencie

Re: [yocto] Targeting Windows platform

2018-03-13 Thread Florian Doersch
Hi Isaac, here we also have a mixture of embedded and desktop applications. We use yocto for our embedded devices (Xilinx Zynq, Raspberry Pi, Gumstix). The SDKs and images are very helpful for (cross platform) CI and deployment. A first milestone definitly would be having a minimal platform s

[yocto] Targeting Windows platform

2018-03-13 Thread Isaac Nickaein
I know the idea is wild and possibly not a top priority (or even priority) of the community, but extending the area of Yocto to support Windows platform can make it the ubiquitous build system for the enterprise, especially in embedded companies that have a mixture of embedded and desktop applicati