Toolchain Container

This repo provides a toolchain container which sets up cross compilation environment for either SDK or build tree toolchain by automatically loading the environment-setup-* script.

Running with SDK Toolchain

• Install SDK Toolchain

  By default this container assumes SDK is located in /sdk. The SDK needs to be installed separately using the --url option.

  • Linux

    docker run --rm -it -v /home/user/sdk:/sdk <repo>/toolchain --url http://someserver/sdk_installer.sh
    

  • Windows/Mac

    docker run --rm -it -v sdkvolume:/sdk <repo>/toolchain --url http://someserver/sdk_installer.sh
    

  You should now see:

  Attempting to download http://someserver/sdk_installer.sh
  ######################################################################## 100.0%
  Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro) SDK installer version 2.5+snapshot
  ========================================================================
  You are about to install the SDK to "/sdk". Proceed[Y/n]? Y
  Extracting SDK........................................................................................................done
  Setting it up...done
  SDK has been successfully set up and is ready to be used.
  Each time you wish to use the SDK in a new shell session, you need to source the environment setup script e.g.
   $ . /sdk/environment-setup-i586-poky-linux
  sdkuser@ubuntu:~$
  

• Build with SDK Toolchain

  The following instructions assume /workdir is mounted with the location of source tree which needs to be compiled using SDK toolchain.

  • Linux

    docker run --rm -it -v /home/user/sdk:/sdk -v /home/user/workdir:/workdir <repo>/toolchain
    

  • Windows/Mac

    docker run --rm -it -v sdkvolume:/sdk -v myvolume:/workdir <repo>/toolchain
    

Running with Build Tree Toolchain

• Prepare Build Tree Toolchain

  Follow instructions on https://github.com/crops/poky-container to setup a crops/poky container, then follow the Yocto Project Quick Build manual (https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/brief-yoctoprojectqs/brief-yoctoprojectqs.html) to clone the poky repo and run bitbake meta-ide-support to prepare the build tree toolchain.

• Build with Build Tree Toolchain

  The following assumes /workdir/poky/build/tmp (TMPDIR prepared by crops/poky container) has been populated with build tree toolchain. Set the --toolchain option to the build tree toolchain location containing environment-setup-* script.

  • Linux

    docker run --rm -it -v /home/user/workdir:/workdir <repo>/toolchain --toolchain /workdir/poky/build/tmp
    

  • Windows/Mac

    docker run --rm -it -v myvolume:/workdir <repo>/toolchain --toolchain /workdir/poky/build/tmp
    

Examples

• CMake

  To build a CMake project mounted on /workdir using SDK toolchain:

  • Linux

    docker run --rm -it -v /home/user/sdk:/sdk -v /home/user/workdir:/workdir <repo>/toolchain --cmd "cmake . && make"
    

  • Windows/Mac

    docker run --rm -it -v sdkvolume:/sdk <repo>/toolchain -v myvolume:/workdir <repo>/toolchain --cmd "cmake . && make"
    

• Autotools

  To build an autotools project mounted on /workdir using SDK toolchain:

  • Linux

    docker run --rm -it -v /home/user/sdk:/sdk -v /home/user/workdir:/workdir <repo>/toolchain --cmd "./configure \$CONFIGURE_FLAGS && make"
    

  • Windows/Mac

    docker run --rm -it -v sdkvolume:/sdk <repo>/toolchain -v myvolume:/workdir <repo>/toolchain --cmd "./configure \$CONFIGURE_FLAGS && make"