Transclusion: Yocto: iMX: Host Setup

This subsection describes a Linux Host Machine setup required for building images for an NXP i.MX based boards using the Yocto Project build environment.

General Requirements

To get the Yocto Project expected behavior in a Linux Host Machine, the packages and utilities described below must be installed. An important consideration is the hard disk space required in the host machine. For example, when building on a machine running Ubuntu, the minimum hard disk space required is about 50 GB for the X11 backend. It is recommended that at least 120 GB be provided, which is enough to compile any backend. The recommended minimum Ubuntu version is 14.04 but builds for Jethro works on 12.04 or later. Earlier versions may cause the Yocto Project build setup to fail, because it requires python versions only available starting with Ubuntu 12.04.

Host Packages

A Freescale Yocto Project Community BSP build requires that some packages be installed for the build that are documented under the Yocto Project. You can go to Yocto Project Reference Manual and check for the packages that must be installed for your build machine.

• Essential Yocto Project host packages:

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat

• i.MX layers host packages for Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 host setup are:

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev xterm sed cvs subversion coreutils texi2html \
docbook-utils python-pysqlite2 help2man make gcc g++ desktop-file-utils \
libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev mercurial autoconf automake groff curl lzop asciidoc

• i.MX layers host packages for a Ubuntu 12.04 host setup only are:

$ sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage

• i.MX layers host packages for a Ubuntu 14.04 host setup only are:

$ sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools