On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Pietro <pulsarpie...@posteo.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to the Yocto building system and I could be talking nonsense. I > used to work with buildroot time ago and I remember there is an area > where compiled software/packages/tools previously built are "staged" and > used when building other packages. > > Is there something like that available with Yocto ? Specifically I would > like to add a package which uses the Google Protocol Buffer, I do not have > administrator rights on the machine and I can't install the packages I > need system wise. > > Is it possible to add recipes and use them at building time without > including them in the image being generated ? > > A good example for that would be the protoc, the protocol buffer description > file compiler. >
There is a recipe for protobuf in meta-oe (2.6.1). All you need to do, is include meta-oe in your layers (bblayers.conf) and have protobuf-native listed in DEPENDS inside your package recipe. The protoc compiler will be available in the PATH when package is being built, so autotools checks like AC_CHECK_PROG/AC_PATH_PROG should be able to find it. Cheers, -- Maciej Borzecki RnDity -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
