I have Parallels (running on El Capitan the one before Sierra) and ubuntu 14 running my current build environment on a MacBook Pro, but boy is the build slow… I also worked at Apple for 19 years on drivers inside MacOS X/iOS, so I am more than motivated to have this working natively rather than inside any container or disk space hogging environment. As I mentioned I am working with the Intel Aero compute board, so slogging though all this fat to build an image is a productivity killer.
I think most of the incompatibilities between Linux and os x (which btw is coming from the ios side of the fence unfortunately), can be mitigated with boot args or via the command line . Apple’s compiler team had to make llvm compatible with gcc, so I am surprised if in 2017, there are compiler issues to building for an x86_64 platform with llvm on the Mac . That’s the kind of bug Apple likes to fix promptly.. As I mentioned, I tried to simply source the oe-init-build-env, and got an error that the readlink command that yocto is using is incompatible with the bsd version of readlink built into os x. i.e when I run . source oe-init-build-env I get the error readlink: illegal option -- f Which is because on OS X readlink doesn’t specify -f YNOPSIS stat [-FLnq] [-f format | -l | -r | -s | -x] [-t timefmt] [file ...] readlink [-n] [file ...] I didn’t want to go through this level of change in the Yocto sources if (1) people don’t care to take changes or (2) it had already been done before.. I was curious how far down this rabbit hole people had gone before.. Roger > On Jan 12, 2017, at 8:50 AM, Andrea Galbusera <giz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Belisko Marek <marek.beli...@gmail.com > <mailto:marek.beli...@gmail.com>> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Tim Orling > <timothy.t.orl...@linux.intel.com <mailto:timothy.t.orl...@linux.intel.com>> > wrote: > > You can also build using Docker containers: > > https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki > > <https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki> > Well the re is other limitation about slow filesystem access from > docker on osx. There is workaround to use nfs but it's not possible to > use nfs for building yocto - so it's kind of chicken-egg problem ;) > > I shortly tested the CROPS docker-based setup after watching some > presentation at ELCE 2016 in Berlin. It basically worked but I experienced > the filesystem slowness your are talking about. I ended up waiting hours to > see a simple core-image-minimal build complete (even after giving more cores > to docker). One more point is that slightly more complex build scenarios, > i.e. building resin.os, also required tweaking docker run parameters for the > build container in order to give bitbake access to features like loop devices > it needed (not always easily debuggable issues indeed). Turned out I decided > to stick with more canonical linux based environments for the moment. > > Anyway, the technology behind CROPS is *very* interesting to me, and I'd like > to hear from people closely involved (Tim?) what the state of the art is and > what we can expect to see in the near future. IIRC, the roadmap for Yocto 2.3 > release was supposed to resurrect the Eclipse plugin and adopt CROPS as an > alternative for running eSDK in a seamless way on different development host > OSs. Beside from the images on docker hub and the github projects that didn't > have high activity in the latest months, I hardly find discussions and > documentation on the whole approach. Isn't this hot enough anymore or are > there big issues that will prevent this technology from taking off. I often > manage SDKs for Windows-minded developers and I strongly yearn to find a > better approach to help them feel at home while building stuff for OE/Yocto > based systems... > > > > > > On Jan 12, 2017, at 7:34 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com > > <mailto:ross.bur...@intel.com>> wrote: > > > > > > On 12 January 2017 at 15:14, Roger Smith <ro...@sentientblue.com > > <mailto:ro...@sentientblue.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Is there any documentation for running the Yocto build system on Mac OS X > >> or macOS as Apple now calls it? I am working with the Intel Aero board. > >> Before I go down the rabbit hole of fixing issues like this one (and I am > >> using the bash shell), I’d like to know if anyone has build it on os x > >> before. > > > > > > If you install all of the GNU tools using brew or similar and put them first > > on $PATH then you can get bitbake started. Then you need to stub out the > > linux-specific bits in bitbake. I've previously started on this work > > already > > (http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ross/darwin > > <http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ross/darwin>). > > The next step is figuring out how to configure OE to build and link natively > > on OSX using LLVM instead of GCC. > > > > However all of this is mostly academic because in Sierra (iirc) onwards > > there is tighter security on processes, which means that pseudo won't work > > even if you port it to macOS. > > > > So unless you fancy some non-trivial engineering the short version is just > > use something like Docker to run a Linux system on your Mac. > > > > Ross > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > yocto mailing list > > yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> > > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto> > > > > > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > yocto mailing list > > yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> > > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto> > > > > marek > > -- > as simple and primitive as possible > ------------------------------------------------- > Marek Belisko - OPEN-NANDRA > Freelance Developer > > Ruska Nova Ves 219 | Presov, 08005 Slovak Republic > Tel: +421 915 052 184 <tel:%2B421%20915%20052%20184> > skype: marekwhite > twitter: #opennandra > web: http://open-nandra.com <http://open-nandra.com/> > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto> > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto>
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