[yocto] Transitioning to Yocto, some basic questions about workflow

[Burton, Ross]

On 10 November 2015 at 22:27, Michael Habibi <mikehabibi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see that Yocto thinks of the deployable image and applications as
> separate entities: first you'd build the distribution, then you would use
> ADT/cross-toolchain/etc to build the applications and install them
> separately. However, in our environment, we would need all of our custom IP
> applications to be built as part of the deployable image, and not as a
> separate procdure. For example, if I were to call "bitbake our-image", I
> would like the deployable image to contain 1) the kernel, 2) various core
> utilities and libraries for booting, and 3) our custom applications for our
> device.


Your observation here is incorrect: the ADT/etc are for developers to use
when developing the applications.  If you're doing integration (i.e.
building images) then your applications are just more recipes to build
packages from that go into the image.

Ross
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