[yocto] Building on MacOS X

[Andrea Galbusera]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Maciej Borzęcki <maciej.borzecki at rndity.com
> wrote:

> 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.
>

Not anymore! There's a native implementation [1] but still a linux kernel
around anyway! ;-)

[1]
https://www.docker.com/docker-news-and-press/docker-released-native-mac-and-windows-apps-optimize-developer-experience


>
>
> >
> > 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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