Hello,

"yasokada via Lists.Zephyrproject.Org"
<yasokada=gmail.com@lists.zephyrproject.org> writes:

Application Development
https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/application/index.html
at several lines above the Source Tree Structure ( https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/application/index.html#source-tree-structure )

Zephyr does not support “in-tree” builds.

The "in-tree" and "out-of-tree" may be used in linux as being part of the system or not, I think.
Linux kernel: meaning of source-tree, in-tree and out-of-tree ( https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/208638/linux-kernel-meaning-of-source-tree-in-tree-and-out-of-tree )

In the above sentence for Zephyr, what does the "in-tree" builds mean?

For example, I guess, the "in-tree" builds means that the build can be performed only partly for some module, not for all the application project.

That is not correct.

Am I mistaken?

An "in-tree" build is when build artifacts (object files, generated
code, etc.) are created in the same directories as the source code. E.g.
if CMake places the object file for zephyr/kernel/init.c in the same
directory (zephyr/kernel), that would be an in-tree build, but that is
not supported by the Zephyr build system.

Zephyr's build system requires "out-of-tree" builds, which means that
the build directory is separate from the source directories.

Martí

Thanks in advance

Dear Marti

Thank you very much for your reply.
I can understand the difference now.

Best regards

Yasuhiko Okada