yocto

Setting Up Yocto Projects with kas

by Burkhard Stubert
2022/06/242022/06/24

Kas makes the setup of a Yocto build environment super simple and super fast. We call kas with a project configuration file: kas-container build ./eu-terminal-distro.yml. Kas starts a Docker container, clones the layer repositories, initialises the Yocto configuration files (local.conf and bblayers.conf), and starts building the embedded Linux system. Most Linux BSP providers don’t make a kas configuration file available. I’ll show how to convert a repo manifest file into a kas configuration file in this post.

The HMI of the ROPA sugar-beet harvesters runs on a Topcon Opus A8 terminal.

Building Qt 6.2 For Old Yocto Versions

by Burkhard Stubert
2022/04/112022/04/16

The Qt version of an embedded Linux system is tied to the Yocto version. Yocto 2.7 (Warrior) comes with Qt 5.12, Yocto 3.1 (Dunfell) with Qt 5.14, Yocto 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 with Qt 5.15 . There is no Yocto version with Qt 6 yet. How can we build Qt 6.2 against the SDK of old Yocto versions?

by Burkhard Stubert
2021/03/292021/04/06

Setting up QtCreator for cross-compilation with CMake took me 15-20 hours the first two or three times. The next half a dozen times took me… Read More »How to Set Up QtCreator for Cross-Compilation with CMake in 5 Minutes

Build, deploy and run Qt application on embedded device by pressing the Run button in QtCreator.

Cross-Compiling Qt Embedded Applications with QtCreator and CMake

by Burkhard Stubert
2020/11/212021/11/25

We change the code of our Qt application in QtCreator and press the Run button to try the changes on an embedded device. QtCreator cross-compiles the application, deploys it to the device and runs it on the device. QtCreator performs these steps in a breeze, because we spent quite some time to define a QtCreator Kit. The fairly unknown script configure-qtcreator.sh from the Yocto layer meta-boot2qt automates most of the kit definition.

Qt Embedded Systems – Part 2: Building a Qt SDK with Yocto

by Burkhard Stubert
2020/06/192022/04/15

We want to develop the Internet radio application for the Raspberry Pi in the same way as for a PC. We change the source code in QtCreator and run the application. QtCreator cross-builds the application on the PC for the Raspberry Pi, deploys it with SSH to the Pi and runs it on the Pi. We need a Qt SDK for this to work. In addition to the target libraries from the Linux image, the Qt SDK contains the library headers, a cross-compiler, a cross-linker, a cross-debugger and more.

Qt Embedded Systems – Part 1: Building a Linux Image with Yocto

by Burkhard Stubert
2020/05/262020/09/30

In Part 1 of the series on Qt Embedded Systems, we build a custom Linux image with Yocto for the Raspberry Pi 3B. When we… Read More »Qt Embedded Systems – Part 1: Building a Linux Image with Yocto

Yocto Builds with CROPS Containers

by Burkhard Stubert
2019/05/062019/07/04

In a recent post Using Docker Containers for Yocto Builds, I suffered an episode of NIHS (not-invented-here syndrome). I wrote a Dockerfile for Yocto builds. Stefan Agner pointed out in his comment that the CROPS project provides ready-made containers for Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora and others. The crops/poky-container enables us to start our first Yocto build within minutes.

by Burkhard Stubert
2019/02/112021/06/19

We want to build a custom Linux image with Yocto for the Raspberry Pi 3 model B (BCM2837). The Linux image contains a very simple Internet radio application using Qt 5.11 and the eglfs graphics backend. Our colleagues shall be able to repeat the build easily – now, in three years and even in ten years.

I’ll explain why Docker is an excellent choice to build custom Linux images and give you a step-by-step guide how to do it. At the end of the post, you will be able to run a simple Internet radio on a custom Linux image on a Raspberry Pi 3.