Yocto

How to Put a Yocto Build Under Continuous Integration in the Cloud

Continuous Integration has become standard practice in software development. Yocto is used in almost all embedded devices that run Linux, but is time consuming to work with. It can take many hours to do a complete Yocto build from scratch, so at first glance it seems infeasible to do a build each…

How to Create Reproducible Yocto Environments with Buildah

Part of my job is to prepare Yocto setups for our customers' devices. My goal is twofold: set up an environment a client can easily reproduce; and ensure this environment also allows developers to have multiple projects at the same time. In this blog post I explore the workflow I use in order to…

Configuring Qt Creator for Yocto Development

In previous blog posts I've covered how to configure Qt Creator for development on Linux (1), Windows (2) and MacOS (3) desktop systems and for embedded development on the Raspberry Pi (4). We're often asked in our training classes and consulting projects how to set up the Qt Creator IDE for…

Yocto Quick Start

I've mentioned the Yocto (1) embedded framework in previous blog posts. Some people may have shied away from trying it because they have heard it has a steep learning curve. While Yocto is complex, it is very easy to get started and you can do so without any embedded hardware. In this post I'…

Yocto on the Raspberry Pi

Yocto(1) is a software framework for embedded Linux systems. We've looked at it in previous blog posts(2). It forms the basis of many embedded Linux distributions, including The Qt Company's boot2qt that is part of their commercial product Qt For Device Creation(3). Knowledge of Yocto is a…

Summer Grab Bag

It's summertime here in the Northern hemisphere, and many people are on vacation (I just got back from a week off, myself). Despite that, we are very busy at ICS with consulting projects and preparing for the upcoming Qt Developer Days (1) conferences to be held in Berlin and San…