BitBake User Manual

Table of Contents

• 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 History and Goals
  • 1.3 Concepts
    • 1.3.1 Recipes
    • 1.3.2 Configuration Files
    • 1.3.3 Classes
      • 1.3.3.1 Class Types
    • 1.3.4 Layers
    • 1.3.5 Append Files
  • 1.4 Obtaining BitBake
  • 1.5 The BitBake Command
    • 1.5.1 Usage and syntax
    • 1.5.2 Examples
      • 1.5.2.1 Executing a Task Against a Single Recipe
      • 1.5.2.2 Executing Tasks Against a Set of Recipe Files
      • 1.5.2.3 Executing a List of Task and Recipe Combinations
      • 1.5.2.4 Generating Dependency Graphs
      • 1.5.2.5 Executing a Multiple Configuration Build
      • 1.5.2.6 Enabling Multiple Configuration Build Dependencies
• 2 Execution
  • 2.1 Parsing the Base Configuration Metadata
  • 2.2 Locating and Parsing Recipes
  • 2.3 Providers
  • 2.4 Preferences
  • 2.5 Dependencies
  • 2.6 The Task List
  • 2.7 Executing Tasks
  • 2.8 Checksums (Signatures)
  • 2.9 Setscene
  • 2.10 Logging
• 3 Setting Up The Environment With bitbake-setup
  • 3.1 Quick Start