RDK-E Build Environment Host Setup

Host Environment

Requirement

Yocto 4.0 (Kirkstone)

Linux

64 bit Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Shell BASH

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

Free HDD Space

Layer	GB
RDKE OSS	75GB
RDKE Vendor	50GB
RDKE Middleware	120GB
RDKE Application	50GB
RDKE Image Assembler	30GB

Host Tools Versions

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 ant build-essential chrpath cmake curl diffstat fd g++ g++-multilib gcc gcc-multilib \
git git-flow git-man jq libbz2-dev libffi-dev libglib2.0-dev libldap2-dev liblzma-dev libncurses5-dev \
libreadline-dev libsasl2-dev libsqlite3-dev libslang2-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev \
llvm make nnn openjdk-17-jdk openjdk-21-jdk python3.8 ripgrep sysstat texinfo tk-dev tree wget \
xz-utils zip zlib1g-dev 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>