[yocto] Building on MacOS X

[Maciej Borzęcki]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Tim Orling
<timothy.t.orling at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> You can also build using Docker containers:
> https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki

IIRC docker on mac relies on docker-machine, which in turn spins up a
virtualbox VM.


>
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 7:34 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 12 January 2017 at 15:14, Roger Smith <roger at sentientblue.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there any documentation for running the Yocto build system on Mac OS X
>> or macOS as Apple now calls it? I am working with the Intel Aero board.
>> Before I go down the rabbit hole of fixing issues like this one (and I am
>> using the bash shell), I’d like to know if anyone has build it on os x
>> before.
>
>
> If you install all of the GNU tools using brew or similar and put them first
> on $PATH then you can get bitbake started.  Then you need to stub out the
> linux-specific bits in bitbake.  I've previously started on this work
> already
> (http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ross/darwin).
> The next step is figuring out how to configure OE to build and link natively
> on OSX using LLVM instead of GCC.
>
> However all of this is mostly academic because in Sierra (iirc) onwards
> there is tighter security on processes, which means that pseudo won't work
> even if you port it to macOS.
>
> So unless you fancy some non-trivial engineering the short version is just
> use something like Docker to run a Linux system on your Mac.
>
> Ross
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