This workflow uses either the standard or the extensible SDKs generated by the Yocto Project. This is what we have been using on the recipes we saw before when building from the command line and also when using both the Eclipse and Qt Creator IDEs. This workflow produces binaries that have to be individually copied to the hardware to be run and debugged. It can be used in conjunction with the other workflows.

This is the recommended workflow for application development especially when using all the features of the full extensible Yocto SDK. Refer to the Using the extensible SDK for a detailed explanation.

However, sometimes we are not the main developers of the package and we only want to introduce some fixes or modifications. The two workflows explained in the following sections use the Yocto build system.