My first package build with bitbake

Now that we’ve got the board and the operating system, how do we build our own software for the BeagleBoard?

Following the basics from OE User’s Manual, I do the following:

$ cd ${OETREE}

then create the following:

./myhelloworld
./myhelloworld/files/myhelloworld.c
./myhelloworld/files/myhelloworld_0.1.bb

according to the instructions.

With all the files in place, its time to attempt the bake:

$ source source-me.txt
$ bitbake ../myhelloworld/files/myhelloworld_0.1.bb

This succeeds.

We now have a package we can download and install on the BeagleBoard.