zephyr/doc/getting_started/toolchain_host.rst
Marti Bolivar b587909427 doc: periodic updates to getting started guide
Updates based on discussion and changes in supported features.

- Make the guide shorter by removing content that's not relevant to
  most users who are truly just getting started, such as information
  about pre-LTS versions that did not support west, and by being more
  concise in some places.

- Decrease the number of colored boxes. At the latest TSC F2F, the
  "note / warning / note / tip" contents were identified as a
  readability problem.

- Add additional information based on new west features, like "west
  boards".

Signed-off-by: Marti Bolivar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
2019-06-14 14:19:09 -04:00

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.. _host_toolchains:
Host Toolchains
###############
In some specific configurations, like when building for non-MCU x86 targets on
a Linux host, you may be able to re-use the native development tools provided
by your operating system.
To use your host gcc, set the :envvar:`ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT`
:ref:`environment variable <env_vars>` to ``host``. To use clang, set
:envvar:`ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT` to ``clang``.