1.1.6. Building the SDK with Yocto

1.1.6.1. Introduction

This page provides the steps to build the Processor SDK and individual components from source. The Processor SDK build is based on the Arago Project which provides a set of layers for OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project targeting TI platforms.

This page will provide the basic steps required to recreate the Processor SDK along with a reference of Processor SDK specific configurations, build targets, and target devices. Also, tips and suggestions are provided along with links for more in-depth information.

1.1.6.2. Steps to Run Yocto Builds inside Container

TI provides a Ubuntu 22.04 based docker image with all the packages that are required to start a Yocto Build.

The Docker Image is hosted on ghcr.io/texasinstruments.

Refer Steps to Run Yocto builds inside a Container for a comprehensive guide.

Follow Processor SDK Build Reference for Layer Configuration and Build Options.

Attention

Before starting the container, ensure that you have completed all the Pre-Requisites as mentioned here.

1.1.6.3. Steps to Run Yocto Builds on Host

1.1.6.3.1. Prerequisites (One-time setup)

The following build host packages are required for Ubuntu. The following command will install the required tools on the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ # Install packages required for builds
$ sudo apt-get -f -y install \
  git build-essential diffstat texinfo gawk chrpath socat doxygen \
  dos2unix python3 bison flex libssl-dev u-boot-tools mono-devel \
  mono-complete curl python3-distutils repo pseudo python3-sphinx \
  g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 jq git-lfs pigz zstd liblz4-tool \
  cpio file lz4 debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 \
  python3-subunit locales libacl1 unzip gcc python3-pip python3-pexpect \
  xz-utils wget \
$ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

By default Ubuntu uses “dash” as the default shell for /bin/sh. You must reconfigure to use bash by running the following command:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Important

Be sure to select “No” when you are asked to use dash as the default system shell.

Large Swap File

Building large packages, especially several at a time, requires a lot of working memory for a computer. For computers with 32 GB of RAM or more, this should not be a problem. For computers with less RAM, a swap file of ~16GB may be needed to build large packages. Creating a large swap file, or resizing a small swap file to be larger will help avoid build errors for large packages.

Proxy Setup

If working behind a proxy, please see Working Behind a Network Proxy.

1.1.6.3.2. Build Steps

Please refer to here for the layer configuration oeconfig-file for a particular release of Processor SDK Linux SK TDA4VM. The MACHINE can be set to j721e-evm, for example.

Your newly built wic image will be generated in deploy-ti directory. Use Linux SD Card Creation Guide to flash this image on the SD-Card.

Tip

If your computer is frequently crashing while running the bitbake command, edit the conf/local.conf file under build directory and set the variables: BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE to cap the number of threads bitbake can create at a time. By default bitbake tries to automatically figure out and set the maximum values for these variables on your system which may lead to errors.

Caution

While building images via Yocto, if you are facing locale.Error: unsupported locale setting error, it means your system is trying to use a locale setting which was not there. Run the following commands which will setup the locale and try building your target image again.

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
ulimit -n 4096

1.1.6.4. Processor SDK Build Reference

The following sections provide information for configuration, build options, and supported platforms of the Processor SDK.

1.1.6.4.1. Layer Configuration

Please refer to here for the layer configuration for a particular release of Processor SDK Linux.

1.1.6.4.2. Build Options

Images

In addition to individual components packages, the following table provides a list of build targets supported. These are the <target> used in the command:

MACHINE=<machine> bitbake <target>

The “Build Output” is given relative to the deploy-ti directory.

1.1.6.4.3. Recipes

Recipe Basics

One or more recipes can be specified for the <target> for greater granularity of recipe development and debug. Specifying a recipe name, minus the version (if the version is appended to the name), will build the recipe and all its dependencies.

Note

Please note that the output of a recipe can be in another folder under “arago-tmp-[toolchain]/work” directory, depending on the defines of the recipe.

Forced Re-compilation

Installing Package

Cleaning a Built Recipe

A built recipe can be cleaned using:

MACHINE=<machine> bitbake <target> -c cleansstate

or

MACHINE=<machine> bitbake <target> -c cleanall

The cleansstate task will clean recipe’s work directory and remove the recipe’s output from the dependency tree used by other recipe’s during compilation.

1.1.6.5. See also

General information on Yocto, OpenEmbedded and Arago projects can be found at: