[Development] sdktool parameters

[Eike Ziller]

As far as I read the code, it should be

"QVariantList:-mthumb,-mfpu=neon-vfpv4,etc"

i.e. type is QVariantList and the value is a comma-separated list of strings. Individual elements cannot contain ‘,’ themselves.

Br, Eike

> On Dec 16, 2019, at 15:35, Юрий Лунёв via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I’m trying to figure out the syntax of sdktool so that I could set up my custom Yocto-built SDK in automatic and manageable way.
> 
> What I’m stuck with now is the command to add a toolchain:
> $SDKTOOL addTC --id «ProjectExplorer.ToolChain.Gcc:me.gcc" \
>        --language C \
>        --name "Myir GCC" \
>        --path ${X86_SYSROOT}/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc \
>        --abi arm-linux-generic-elf-32bit \
>        --supportedAbis arm-linux-generic-elf-32bit \
>        ProjectExplorer.GccToolChain.PlatformCodeGenFlags QString:"-mthumb -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -mcpu=cortex-a7"
> 
> 
> What happens is that PlatformCodeGenFlags appear as a single variable quoted by ‘ from both sides. And the compiler fails this way.
> 
> I found out that there’s a way to specify QStringList instead, but I can’t figure out the syntax. It’s something related to QVariant,
> QVariantList etc, and there isn’t documentation for it, or I’m too blind to find that.
> 
> How do I say something like the following)
> $SDKTOOL addTC --id «ProjectExplorer.ToolChain.Gcc:me.gcc" \
>        --language C \
>        --name "Myir GCC" \
>        --path ${X86_SYSROOT}/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc \
>        --abi arm-linux-generic-elf-32bit \
>        --supportedAbis arm-linux-generic-elf-32bit \
>        ProjectExplorer.GccToolChain.PlatformCodeGenFlags QStringList: '-mthumb’, '-mfpu=neon-vfpv4', 'mfloat-abi=hard’, '-mcpu=cortex-a7’
> 
> Best regards, Yury Lunyov.
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