Yocto Development Environment
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VAR-SOM-MX6 - Setting Development Environment
Introduction
Installing Ubuntu 14.04 in VMWare Player
There are many examples on the WEB. we Recommend:
Installation recommendations
- Set the number of CPU's to maximum possible
- Set the memory size to at least 4GB.
- Set the disk size to be at least 200GB. 300GB is better.
- Use Bridge for networking.
- Install the VMWare tools.
- If you have an extra hard drive use it as a physical partition and set you home directory to it.
- Update Ubuntu right after first login.
Installing additional packages for Ubuntu 14.04
First time you login into Ubuntu Install additional pacakages
<br/>Yocto essentials pacakages: sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev xterm <br/>Yocto Documentation: sudo apt-get install make xsltproc docbook-utils fop dblatex xmlto <br/>ADT Installer Extras: sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool libglib2.0-dev libarchive-dev <br/>Additional : sudo apt-get install bison flex patch libncurses-dev sudo apt-get install gettext texinfo curl subversion sudo apt-get install minicom wireshark sudo apt-get install qemu kvm qemu-kvm-extras qemu-kvm-extras-static sudo apt-get install ssh vde2 nfs-kernel-server debootstrap uml-utilities sudo apt-get install bridge-utils dnsmasq xinetd tftpd tftp sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage
Pre Built Ubuntu 14.04 VMWare virtual machine
We created a Virtual machine with all packages installed. We also installed Yocto Fido R2 on it. Please download it from the FTP site and add it to your VMWare. Username: variscite Password: variscite