Task #10 - How to create a custom layer

One of the most important features of Yocto is its ability to handle sublayers. To understand the sublayers please Yocto Project Development Manual

Start creating meta-custom folder, then create the other folders. For example:

meta-daiane/

├── conf

│   └── layer.conf

├── README

├── recipes-core

│   └── helloworld

│       ├── helloworld

│       │   └── hello_world.c

│       └── helloworld_0.0.bb

└── recipes-daiane

    └── images

        └── dai-image-hello.bb

It´s possible to create recipes-kernel and place there your defconfig, or create a bbappend to apply your patches to kernel, or even create a recipes-multimedia and place there custom application for gstreamer, for example.

Here, the custom application example is a helloworld application.

One important tip:

Yocto see recipes name as PACKAGENAME_VERSION.bb, It means, yocto uses "_" (underline) to separate the package name from package version on a recipe file name. So, if you call your helloworld application as hello_world_1.0.bb Yocto will think your application is called "hello" and the version is something around "world_1.0"

Please, be careful.

LAYER.CONF

This is the file that gives new layer live. Find the content of mine layer.conf below:

# We have a conf and classes directory, add to BBPATH

BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}"

 

# We have a packages directory, add to BBFILES

BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb \

            ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend"

 

BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "daiane"

BBFILE_PATTERN_daiane := "^${LAYERDIR}/"

BBFILE_PRIORITY_daiane = "4"

As soon as the new custom layer is created, it MUST include it to  conf/bblayers.conf file. Please see the example:

LCONF_VERSION = "6"

 

BBPATH = "${TOPDIR}"

BSPDIR := "${@os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(d.getVar('FILE', True)) + '/../..')}"

 

BBFILES ?= ""

BBLAYERS = " \

  ${BSPDIR}/sources/poky/meta \

  ${BSPDIR}/sources/poky/meta-yocto \

  \

  ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \

  \

  ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-arm \

  ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra \

  ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-demos \

  \

  ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-daiane \

"

Please, find the tarball with sample meta layer attached to this document.

It includes one image that will install the Hello World application:

$ bitbake dai-image-hello

When the content of image tar ball is extracted, hello_world was installed and it was for ARM:

$ find -name hello*

./usr/bin/hello_world

 

$ file ./usr/bin/hello_world

./usr/bin/hello_world: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, stripped

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