3.2. Installing the SDK

The first thing you need to do is install the SDK on your host development machine by running the *.sh installation script.

You can download a tarball installer, which includes the pre-built toolchain, the runqemu script, and support files from the appropriate directory under http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-2.3/toolchain/. Toolchains are available for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 development systems from the i686 and x86_64 directories, respectively. The toolchains the Yocto Project provides are based off the core-image-sato image and contain libraries appropriate for developing against that image. Each type of development system supports five or more target architectures.

The names of the tarball installer scripts are such that a string representing the host system appears first in the filename and then is immediately followed by a string representing the target architecture.

     poky-glibc-host_system-image_type-arch-toolchain-release_version.sh

     Where:
         host_system is a string representing your development system:

                    i686 or x86_64.

         image_type is the image for which the SDK was built.

         arch is a string representing the tuned target architecture:

                    i586, x86_64, powerpc, mips, armv7a or armv5te

         release_version is a string representing the release number of the
                Yocto Project:

                    2.3, 2.3+snapshot
            

For example, the following SDK installer is for a 64-bit development host system and a i586-tuned target architecture based off the SDK for core-image-sato and using the current 2.3 snapshot:

     poky-glibc-x86_64-core-image-sato-i586-toolchain-2.3.sh
            

Note

As an alternative to downloading an SDK, you can build the SDK installer. For information on building the installer, see the "Building an SDK Installer" section. Another helpful resource for building an installer is the Cookbook guide to Making an Eclipse Debug Capable Image wiki page. This wiki page focuses on development when using the Eclipse IDE.

The SDK and toolchains are self-contained and by default are installed into /opt/poky. However, when you run the SDK installer, you can choose an installation directory.

Note

You must change the permissions on the SDK installer script so that it is executable:
     $ chmod +x poky-glibc-x86_64-core-image-sato-i586-toolchain-2.3.sh
                

The following command shows how to run the installer given a toolchain tarball for a 64-bit x86 development host system and a 32-bit x86 target architecture. The example assumes the SDK installer is located in ~/Downloads/.

Note

If you do not have write permissions for the directory into which you are installing the SDK, the installer notifies you and exits. Be sure you have write permissions in the directory and run the installer again.

     $ ./poky-glibc-x86_64-core-image-sato-i586-toolchain-2.3.sh
     Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro) SDK installer version 2.3
     ===============================================================
     Enter target directory for SDK (default: /opt/poky/2.3):
     You are about to install the SDK to "/opt/poky/2.3". 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.
      $ . /opt/poky/2.3/environment-setup-i586-poky-linux
            

Again, reference the "Installed Standard SDK Directory Structure" section for more details on the resulting directory structure of the installed SDK.