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4Introduction
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7Welcome to the Yocto Project Application Developer's Guide. This manual
8provides information that lets you begin developing applications using
9the Yocto Project.
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11The Yocto Project provides an application development environment based
12on an Application Development Toolkit (ADT) and the availability of
13stand-alone cross-development toolchains and other tools. This manual
14describes the ADT and how you can configure and install it, how to
15access and use the cross-development toolchains, how to customize the
16development packages installation, how to use command-line development
17for both Autotools-based and Makefile-based projects, and an
18introduction to the Eclipse IDE Yocto Plug-in.
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20.. note::
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22 The ADT is distribution-neutral and does not require the Yocto
23 Project reference distribution, which is called Poky. This manual,
24 however, uses examples that use the Poky distribution.