In recent months, some i.MX6ULL users try to add google chromium to Linux BSP L4.1.15 managed by yocto project 2.1 (krogoth), but failed. One of A customers project also encoutered the same issues, their engineers submitted case to us asking for help. Then a compilation test for the customer was done, there really exist some errors during compilation. The follwing contents show how to compile it and handle issues.
---System Configurations
Hardware: notebook, i7 4-cores, 16GB DDR4
Software: windows 7/10, VMware Player 14.0, USB3.1 SSD
Step1:
# cd ~/fsl-release-bsp
# DISTRO=fsl-imx-x11 MACHINE=imx6ull14x14evk source fsl-setup-release.sh -b build-x11
# gedit ./conf/local.conf
Add lines below, just like descriptions of chromium in i.MX_Yocto_User’s_Guide.pdf
……
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "chromium libexif"
LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST="commercial"
……
[Comment]
Above methord has been described in i.MX_Yocto_User's_Guide.pdf.
# bitbake chromium -c fetch
Begin to download chromium package：
If you feel it’s the speed of download is too slow, you can copy the following link to explorer, and download the file directly:
http://gsdview.appspot.com/chromium-browser-official/chromium-48.0.2548.0.tar.xz
Then copy the file to ~/fsl-release-bsp/downloads. And create a.done file by touch command in the directory.
# cd ~/fsl-release-bsp/downloads
# touch chromium-48.0.2548.0.tar.xz.done
Empty file is OK, not need any contents in the file.
Step 2
Begin to compile chromium:
# cd ~/fsl-release-bsp/downloads/build-x11
# bitbake chromium -c compile
From the following picture, total tasks are 1636
| Errors 1 during compilation |
|---|
Error : ERROR: cups-2.1.3-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 4, output: failed: Connection timed out. Read error (Connection timed out) in headers.
ERROR: cups-2.1.3-r0 do_fetch: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'https://www.cups.org/software/2.1.3/cups-2.1.3-source.tar.bz2'. Unable to fetch URL from any source. ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/weidong/fsl-release-bsp-415-200/build-x11/tmp/work/cortexa7hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/cups/2.1.3-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.33362 ERROR: Task 111 (/home/weidong/fsl-release-bsp-415-200/sources/poky/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups_2.1.3.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1' Handle it: Download the file through explorer: https://www.cups.org/software/2.1.3/cups-2.1.3-source.tar.bz2 Then copy it to ~/fsl-release-bsp/downloads, and create cups-2.1.3-source.tar.bz2.done Continue: # bitbake chromium -c compile |
| Errors 2 during compilation |
|---|
Handle it :
[Comment] The solution is from the link: https://forum.fs-net.de/index.php?thread/4352-yocto-build-chromium-browser/ fsimx6ul-chromium.patchis provided by F&S Support Team Continue: # bitbake chromium -c compile |
Successfully.
Step 3 Compiling full image
# bitbake fsl-image-gui
When chromium compilation is done, we can begin to comipile rootfs(fsl-image-gui)
Then no errors occurred. Compiled BSP successfully.
Then we check if chromium has been included in rootfs.
# cd ~/fsl-release-bsp/build-x11/tmp/deploy/images/imx6ull14x14evk
[Comment]
(1) fsl-image-gui-imx6ull14x14evk-20200425220751.rootfs.tar.bz2
The file is rootfs without u-boot/device tree/linux kernel.
(2) fsl-image-gui-imx6ull14x14evk-20200425220751.rootfs.sdcard
The file is full image including u-boot/device tree/kernel/rootfs
Here is the links among files:
Now we check if rootfs have included chromium, create a temp directory in ~/ and copy rootffs to the temp directory
# mkdir ~/temp
# cp ./fsl-image-gui-imx6ull14x14evk-20200425220751.rootfs.tar.bz2 ~/temp
Then decompress it.
# cd ~/temp
# tar -jxvf fsl-image-gui-imx6ull14x14evk-20200425220751.rootfs.tar.bz2
# cd usr/bin/chromium/
# ls
Successfully.
NXP TIC team
Weidog Sun
2020/05/01
