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Angstrom Toolchain


I am new to angstrom and linux. I am in the process of building an sdk with angstrom. But I cant understand what is a Toolchain and its functionality. Please someone help me here.


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  • In software, a toolchain is the set of programming tools that are used to create a product (typically another computer program or system of programs). The tools may be used in a chain, so that the output of each tool becomes the input for the next, but the term is used widely to refer to any set of linked development tools.

    A simple software development toolchain consists of a compiler and linker to transform the source code into an executable program, libraries to provide interfaces to the operating system, and a debugger.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolchain