[yocto] Help getting started developing.

Wed May 27 00:04:38 PDT 2015

Hi Rafael,

On 26/05/2015 22:13, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:
> Hello, 
> I have purchased a TI UEVM5432 board. I have also successfully setup the development environment as described on the online documentation from the TI web site (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OMAP5_GLSDK_Software_Developers_Guide). My developement environment is the recommended Ubuntu distribution.
>
> I have also successfully build the Yocto filesystem (as per the instructions in the link above) and successfully booted the generated image in the evaluation board.
>
> Where I need help is on how to port an application to the Yocto filesystem.  In particular, I need to build an X Window client.
>
> The instructions in the link above don't explain well how to prepare/configure my environment so I can compile my application. 
>
> If it were a typical development environment, I would configure my Makefiles and just compile. The method used with this development environment (bitbake) is not that clear to me.

If you prepare your application build environment using autotools then
it should "just work" (tm)

This walkthrough might help -

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Building_your_own_recipes_from_first_principles

Also here -

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/774826/Adding-rd-party-components-to-Yocto-OpenEmbedded-L

Regards,

Alex