Project Assistant: Creating a Project, Target, and Adding Fsets in One Shot
One of the newest features in the Moblin Image Creator UI is the Project Assistant, which allows you to create a project, add a target to that project, and add fsets to that target, through one dialog.
The Project Assistant can be found by selecting the Project Assistant option from the File menu.
Step 1: Create a Project
The first step is to create a project. Enter values for the name, description, path, and platform parameters.
Figure 1: Moblin Image Creator wizard asking for the project name, description, path, and platform. Parameter descriptions:
| Project Name | This is the name used to reference the project. | Project Description | This is a description of the project, what it's used for, what it will contain, etc. |
| Project Path | This is a full path on your local file-system that specifies where the project's build-environment and file-system are created. You must specify an empty folder, and it is recommended that you have at least one GB of free space.
Note: Later, you can chroot from this file location to develop software for your targets. |
| Project Platform | This is the platform which will determine kernel configuration and device drivers. It should be based on the architecture of the target device on which you wish to install the image.
Menlow and McCaslin are the names of the low power Intel® Architecture (IA) platforms. Existing Intel-processor-based, ultra-mobile systems, such as the Samsung Q1 Ultra*, use the McCaslin platform. The next generation of ultra-mobile systems will use the Menlow platforms. |
Once this is complete, select the Forward button.
Step 2: Create a Target and Add fsets
After you create a project, you can use The Project Assistant to add a target to that project and select which fsets you want added to your target. Each target must have a unique name.
Figure 2: Moblin Image Creator wizard displaying a list of fsets.
Parameter description:
| Name | This is the name used to reference the target. This will become a directory located in the /targets directory and will contain the file-system for your target. It must be unique. |
Depending on your objectives, you can select among the different available fsets. Each fset installs a bundle of related packages. For example, if you would like a full GUI, select the fset that says "full-mobile-stack-with-proprietary" (see note on Adobe Flash* below). If you select an fset that depends on the installation of other fsets, these are automatically selected and installed, as well.
Step 3: Review and Apply
Make sure that your configuration is correct, and click the Apply button. Moblin Image Creator will create a project, add a target to the project, and add fsets to the target.
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Isolating projects to individual users of MIC
Hi,
I'm trying to set up a server that a team of developers can share for development. And I find that MIC maintains one single list of all the projects created. Each instance of MIC shows the whole list of projects created. This is confusing to individual developers and has the potential of working on incorrect project by mistake. It also requires all projects to have unique name on the server. Is there a way to isolate the projects so that MIC will show only the projects belong to the individual?
Thanks,
Anthony