The Ångström Distribution

Thanks to Jamie Lenehan we have a PDF version of the OE usermanual. It contains all kind of usefull information for people wanting to build or work on Ångström. For easy reference, the HTML version is online as well.

This page will guide you trough the effort of writing a .bb file or recipe in bitbake speak. Let's start with the easy stuff, like the package description, license, etc:

DESCRIPTION = "My first application, a really cool app containing lots of foo and bar"
LICENSE = "GPLv2"
HOMEPAGE = "http://www.host.com/foo/"

The maintainer field needs to have a real name and a working email-address to be usefull, the description and license fields are mandatory, so better check them twice. The next step is to specify what the package needs to build and run, the so called dependencies:

All Ångström images are built using OpenEmbedded. This document described the steps necessary to setup an environment where you can build images and packages yourself.