Add support for linking optional libraries in PlatformIO #533
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Summary of changes
This MR adds support for linking libraries outside of the core libmbed-os.a in PlatformIO projects. It does this via a new mbed_app.json option,
link_libraries, which automatically adds libraries as a dependency of libmbed-os. It also adds some new logic in the PlatformIO integration code to track what libraries the user application depends on and add them to the link line.I was worried this might be complicated, but it actually seems to be pretty simple. It helps, though, that we only have to worry about static libraries, not shared or object, so CMake will already give us a link line containing all the libraries. All we have to do is convert it to the format that SCons expects, add dependencies, and bam! Things start working.
Impact of changes
Migration actions required
Documentation
TODO
Pull request type
Test results
Now able to compile and run code for Raspberry Pi Pico via PlatformIO:
This used to not work because, when building for this target, mbed-os depends on mbed-usb to implement usb-serial functionality.