RDK-E Build Environment Host Setup

Host Environment

Requirement

Yocto 4.0 (Kirkstone)

Linux

64 bit Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

https://docs.yoctoproject.org/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.html

https://docs.yoctoproject.org/kirkstone/ref-manual/system-requirements.html

Free HDD Space

Minimum 100GB Free Memory

Host Tools version

Git 1.8.3.1 or greater
tar 1.28 or greater
Python 3.9.0 or greater.
gcc 10.1 or greater.
GNU make 4.0 or greater

Packages

sudo apt install build-essential chrpath cpio debianutils diffstat file gawk gcc git iputils-ping libacl1 liblz4-tool locales python3 python3-git python3-jinja2 python3-pexpect python3-pip python3-subunit socat texinfo unzip wget xz-utils zstd

You also need to ensure you have the en_US.UTF-8 locale enabled:

locale --all-locales | grep en_US.utf8

Configure repo

In order to use Yocto build system, you need to ensure that repo is installed on the machine:

# create a bin directory
mkdir ~/bin
export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

# Download the repo tool and ensure that it is executable
curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Configure Credentials

It is recommended to put credentials in a ~/.netrc

# RDK Central Github
machine github.com
    login <Public GitHub UserID>
    password <PAT>

# RDK Central Gerrit
machine code.rdkcentral.com
    login <RDK Central SSO email address>
    password <PAT>