Yocto recipetool tutorial

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There are two ways of writing a recipe:
1. Writing from scratch
2.  Using recipetool to create a recipe for us

We will see in this post on how to create a base recipe using recipetool

Syntax for recipetool for local source:
recipetool create source

Let's try to pass a simple hello.c file to recipetool and observe the output.

Note: Yocto environment script should be run, for us to use recipetool


The recipetool command created 'hello.bb' with the following information added in the recipe:
  • LICENSE = "CLOSED"
  • SRC_URI
  • Empty configure(), compile(), install() tasks.
We can pass 'o' option to change the name of generated recipe
$ recipetool create -o test_recipe.bb hello.c

When given a tar file, it added CHKSUM as well as any inherits.


It added a 'DEPENDS' variable, when passed dropbear tarball



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