[oe] bitbaking helloworld

[saleh usman]

I've a board on which linux is actually running then I think I only need executables.Is it so?
What console-image actually does.Which functionality executables of console-image will perform?
Saleh   

> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:50:12 -0700
> From: gary at mlbassoc.com
> To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
> CC: salehusman at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [oe] bitbaking helloworld
> 
> On 01/12/2010 07:50 AM, Saleh Usman wrote:
> > Andrea Adami<andrea.adami<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
> >
> >>
> >> Saleh, the ipk can be opened with ar -x
> >> Usually one *installs* the ipk...otherwise you can have hard time with
> >> the dependencies.
> >> (not for helloworld, happily :)
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Andrea
> >>
> > and which ipk I should extract that contains executable to be run on my platform
> 
> I think there's a bit of confusion here.  Building 'helloword'
> does not create a useful embedded environment, i.e. you can't
> run it on target/embedded hardware directly.  IIRC you are
> trying to deploy (keyword!) this on an OMAP platform.  This
> means that you'll need to build something more substantial
> that has all the base pieces required to get Linux running
> on that hardware.
> 
> I'd suggest that you try building something like 'console-image'
> This *will* create files in the tmp/deploy/... tree that you've
> been told to use.  Once you figure out how to get those files
> onto your target and run them, then you can experiment with
> adding additional packages, etc.
> 
> -- 
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