Development

Contents

Build and Development
Toolchain
Analysis
Testing

Sailfish OS development uses a variety of tools. The basic use is explained in various guides but for more details you’ll need to look at the reference information below

Build and Development

sfdk: The CLI frontend to the Sailfish SDK
git : Sailfish OS uses git extensively for change control. We have a separate repo for packaging git
scratchbox2 : a powerful cross-compilation suite
mic : Local image generation tool
osc : a client for the OBS. We have separate repo for packaging osc as well.

Toolchain

Linaro gcc toolchain : GNU Compiler Collection
gdb : GNU Debugger. We have a separate repo for packaging

Analysis

Valgrind is available in the tools repository
strace is available in the tools repository

Testing

testrunner-lite (available from tools repository) can be used to automate unit test execution (see https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Quality/QA-tools/Testrunner-lite for more information)