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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Welcome to the Yocto Software Development Kit (SDK) Guide. SDK allows developers in quick development and testing during development stage. It eliminates the need of downloading & setting-up of full repository environments.

Setting a full RDK stack is also quite time consuming and requires a high end machine having good disk space and CPU power for the build process. In the other hand SDK supports following features to overcome above challenges.

  • A minimal collection of tool chain, development binaries, supporting headers & libraries are shipped in the form of a self extracting script.
  • Allows to build any component using generic auto tool or similar build approach.
  • Supports packaging so as to install the modified software in target in a easy manner while taking care of the dependencies.

This page provides information that explains how to use both the Yocto SDK to develop images and components using the Yocto Project. A SDK consists of the following:

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