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| 3 | ************ |
| 4 | Introduction |
| 5 | ************ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Welcome to the Yocto Project Application Developer's Guide. This manual |
| 8 | provides information that lets you begin developing applications using |
| 9 | the Yocto Project. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The Yocto Project provides an application development environment based |
| 12 | on an Application Development Toolkit (ADT) and the availability of |
| 13 | stand-alone cross-development toolchains and other tools. This manual |
| 14 | describes the ADT and how you can configure and install it, how to |
| 15 | access and use the cross-development toolchains, how to customize the |
| 16 | development packages installation, how to use command-line development |
| 17 | for both Autotools-based and Makefile-based projects, and an |
| 18 | introduction to the Eclipse IDE Yocto Plug-in. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | .. note:: |
| 21 | |
| 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. |