Various uses of the Moblin sysroot

The Moblin SDK sysroot provides a flexible, configurable environment for Moblin application development.

Using the sysroot with the Moblin developer image, developers have the flexibility to do any of the following:

• Option 1: Update the sysroot contents in the Moblin SDK tarball

Developers can use the content of sysroot in SDK tarball directly, no extra steps required, but in some condiction, developers may need to install some new extra components (header files, libraries, etc) to sysroot which are required for some app development...

• Option 2: Mount the Moblin chroot environment in the sysroot

Developers can create a new developer image which has specified development packages, and then mount this image to sysroot directory to replace the existing sysroot

• Option 3: Mount the Moblin netbook root file system through sshfs to sysroot

Developers can mount the root file system of the Moblin netbook developer image to sysroot, to replace the existing sysroot, so that we could debug with netbook easily ...

• Option 4: Mount the root file system of Moblin USB booting disk to sysroot.

developers could create a USB booting disk by using developer image, which could be mounted to sysroot directly, build and install binaries to the disk, and then use the USB to boot the Netbook ...