topic Problem setting up Eclipse IDE using yocto for toolchain compilation for i.MX 8QuadXPlus in i.MX Processors

Problem setting up Eclipse IDE using yocto for toolchain compilation for i.MX 8QuadXPlus

SimonSchnee — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:26:53 GMT

I used the following links for setting up an IDE for cross compiling for the i.MX 8QuadXPlus MEK board.

Yocto Programming with Eclipse v2 | Variscite Wiki (variwiki.com)
Setting up the Eclipse IDE for Yocto Application D... - NXP Community
I did the following steps (from Yocto Project Description: i.MX Yocto Project User's Guide (nxp.com)):

$mkdir imx-yocto-bsp
$cd imx-yocto-bsp
$repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-manifest -b imx-linux-hardknott -m imx-5.10.52-2.1.0.xml
$repo sync
$DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland MACHINE=imx8qxpc0mek source imx-setup-release.sh -b build-xwayland
Now I want the toolchain: $bitbake meta-toolchain

I am facing the problem, that when building the toolchain using yocto/bitbake it takes several hours and always exceeds my storage capacity because it needs already at 40% completion around 40GB of storage.

Is there a possibility to disable some yocto packages or am I doing something wrong?

Re: Problem setting up Eclipse IDE using yocto for toolchain compilation for i.MX 8QuadXPlus

Yuri — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 06:18:40 GMT

@SimonSchnee
Hello,

please try the following, as recommended in Chapter 2 (Porting Kernel) of "i.MX Porting Guide".

DISTRO=Target-Distro MACHINE=Target-Machine bitbake core-image-minimal -c populate_sdk

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/user-guide/IMX_PORTING_GUIDE.pdf

Regards,
Yuri.

Re: Problem setting up Eclipse IDE using yocto for toolchain compilation for i.MX 8QuadXPlus

SimonSchnee — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:42:43 GMT

Thank you for your reply.

I extended the disk size of my virtual machine (Ubuntu LTS 20.04).

Then I repeated all the steps and could build the toolchain.

But your solution would also work

Do you know what is the exact difference between "imx-image-core" and "core-image-base"?

Best regards.

Re: Problem setting up Eclipse IDE using yocto for toolchain compilation for i.MX 8QuadXPlus

Yuri — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:12:20 GMT

@SimonSchnee
Hello,

According to Table 1 (i.MX Yocto project images) of "i.MX Yocto Project User's Guide":

core-image-base: A console-only image that fully supports the target device hardware.

imx-image-core: An i.MX image with i.MX test applications to be used for Wayland backends.
This image is used by our daily core testing.

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/user-guide/IMX_YOCTO_PROJECT_USERS_GUIDE.pdf

Regards,
Yuri.

Re: Problem setting up Eclipse IDE using yocto for toolchain compilation for i.MX 8QuadXPlus

MichaelBMiner — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:02:33 GMT

Hello Yuri,

I have built my image using

mkdir imx-yocto-bsp cd imx-yocto-bsp repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-manifest -b imx-linux-hardknott -m imx-5.10.72-2.2.0.xml repo sync DISTRO=fsl-imx-wayland MACHINE=imx6ull14x14evk source imx-setup-release.sh -b build-fb bitbake-layers create-layer ../sources/meta-simpledaemon bitbake-layers add-layer ../sources/meta-simpledaemon mkdir ../sources/meta-simpledaemon/recipes-example/simpledaemon recipetool create -V1.0 https://gitlab.com/MichaelBMiner/simpledaemon -o ../sources/meta-simpledaemon/recipes-example/simpledaemon/ bitbake fsl-image-machine-test

Must I include the bitbake populate SDK argument? I want to develop new applications for my image using eclipse but I am not sure where to point the project compiler.

Re: Problem setting up Eclipse IDE using yocto for toolchain compilation for i.MX 8QuadXPlus

Yuri — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:01:08 GMT

@MichaelBMiner
Hello,

I think it makes sense to generate the SDK (add "-c populate_sdk") for application development.

Regards,
Yuri.