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@ -377,6 +377,35 @@ If you need to install custom CMake toolchain files supplied by the application
being built, you should install them (during :ref:`ref-tasks-install`) to the
preferred CMake Module directory: ``${D}${datadir}/cmake/modules/``.
.. _ref-classes-cmake-qemu:
``cmake-qemu``
==============
The :ref:`ref-classes-cmake-qemu` class might be used instead of the
:ref:`ref-classes-cmake` class. In addition to the features provided by the
:ref:`ref-classes-cmake` class, the :ref:`ref-classes-cmake-qemu` class passes
the ``CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR`` setting to ``cmake``. This allows to use
QEMU user-mode emulation for the execution of cross-compiled binaries on the
host machine. For more information about ``CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR``
please refer to the `related section of the CMake documentation
<https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR.html>`__.
Not all platforms are supported by QEMU. This class only works for machines with
``qemu-usermode`` in the :ref:`ref-features-machine`. Using QEMU user-mode therefore
involves a certain risk, which is also the reason why this feature is not part of
the main :ref:`ref-classes-cmake` class by default.
One use case is the execution of cross-compiled unit tests with CTest on the build
machine. If ``CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR`` is configured::
cmake --build --target test
works transparently with QEMU user-mode.
If the CMake project is developed with this use case in mind this works very nicely.
This also applies to an IDE configured to use ``cmake-native`` for cross-compiling.
.. _ref-classes-cml1:
``cml1``