[yocto] Building on MacOS X

[Maciej Borzęcki]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Andrea Galbusera <gizero at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Good to know. There is still hope for mac users after all :)

>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 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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