Even if bitbake could run on WSL, it’d be horribly slow. I/O on WSL is *terrible* right now, docker or a VM wipes the floor with it. I’m sure it’ll be viable eventually, though :)
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Dan McGregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 May 2018 at 10:33, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10 May 2018 at 16:47, Dan McGregor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm with Khem. meta-darwin and meta-mingw are things, even if they > >> haven't been updated in years. If interest arises they shouldn't have > >> too many barriers to starting development again. I've also started to > >> attempt to build on a FreeBSD host. > > > > meta-mingw builds Windows binaries from Linux and meta-darwin builds > > Darwin binaries from Linux, so they're not relevant. > > Neat, I only took a quick look; I guess I misinterpreted their purposes. > > > > > People *are* at least trying to use Windows Subsystem for Linux to > > build Yocto on Windows, but I suspect as far as bitbake is concerned > > that is Linux. There's no practical way we can build on macOS right > > now due to the recent security changes. > > When I tried, early in the WSL testing, bitbake wouldn't start due to > some missing syscalls. inotify related, IIRC. > > > > > Builds on BSD would be interesting, I'm curious as to how much breaks > > from GNU userland expectations and whether the build override is > > actually useful. > > The problem I'm running into right now is pseudo. FreeBSD uses a > different API for extended attributes, so all the various xattr_... > things don't work. I might need to make it depend on a port of the > xattr wrappers. > > Outside of that, I've been using a FreeBSD hosted cross toolchain for > embedded Linux for years. It works well on its own. Hopefully the > build-* overrides will be helpful for the small differences I've > noticed. > > > > > Ross > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > -- Christopher Larson kergoth at gmail dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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