Software : Components and Tools

Above and beyond the build system, there are individual components that are maintained by the Yocto Project®. Some are used by the project internally and some will be needed for development.

You can read about them here, but will need to download them via the Downloads section.

Development Tools

Cross Platform Enablement with Containers (CROPS)

CROPS is an open source, cross-platform development framework that leverages Docker containers to provide an easily managed, extensible environment... more

Devtool

The cornerstone of the extensible SDK is a command-line tool which helps you build, test and package software within the extensible SDK... more

Extensible Software Development Kit (ESDK)

The extensible SDK provides a cross-development toolchain and libraries tailored to the contents of a specific image... more

Toaster

Toaster is a web interface to the Yocto Project build system with great forensic capability. It allows you to configure, run your builds, and view information about the build... more

Production Tools

Auto Upgrade Helper

This is a utility automatically generates upgrades for recipes based on new versions being published upstream... more

Recipe Reporting System

The Recipe Reporting System is the main tool for tracking the recipe versions available for Yocto Project. It helps developers manage the recipes they maintain... more

Patchwork

The Yocto Project uses Patchwork as an organizational tool to handle patches, which number in the thousands for every release... more

AutoBuilder

The AutoBuilder mechanism performs immediate tests on any changes made to the reference distro and nightly complete build tests across all the supported architectures... more

Cross-Prelink

Prelinking is the process of pre-computing the load addresses and link tables generated by the dynamic linker as compared to doing this at runtime... more

Pseudo

Pseudo is a program that allows operations to succeed as if the user had system administrator privileges even though they are an ordinary user... more

Open Embedded Build System

BitBake

BitBake is what builds the image. Its a scheduler and execution engine that follows tasks which are specified in recipes... more

Openembedded Core (oe-core)

OpenEmbedded Core contains base layer of recipes, classes and associated files that is meant to be common among many different OpenEmbedded-derived systems, including the Yocto Project......

Reference Distribution

Poky

Poky is a reference distribution for embedded devices which contains a set of metadata to get you start customizing for your own distro. It is also used to test project stability... more

Packages for Finished Targets

Matchbox

Matchbox is an Open Source base environment for the X Window System running on non-desktop embedded platforms... more

Opkg

Opkg is a lightweight package management system intended for use on embedded Linux devices... more

Archived Components

Build Appliance

The Build Appliance is a virtual machine image which enables you to build and boot a custom embedded Linux image with the Yocto Project using a non-Linux development system... more

Eclipse IDE Plug-in

The Eclipse IDE Plug-in integrates the functionality of the Yocto Project and toolchain into the Eclipse IDE... more