Compilation

Compilation

In computer programming, the translation of source code into object code by a compiler. Wikipedia

• Intel® Edison Board Support Package

• Yocto Linux Image build for Intel Edison – Simple and Easy

• Using Make for Easy Yocto Builds On Intel Edison

• Manually Building Yocto Images for the Intel Edison Board from Source

• Farit Building Yocto Linux for Intel Edison

Host Development Dependencies

user@host:~# apt-get install build-essential git diffstat gawk chrpath texinfo libtool gcc-multilib dfu-util screen u-boot-tools automake autoconf-doc gnu-standards

user@host:~# apt-get install sed wget cvs subversion git-core coreutils \
  unzip texi2html texinfo libsdl1.2-dev docbook-utils gawk \
  python-pysqlite2 diffstat help2man make gcc build-essential \
  g++ desktop-file-utils chrpath libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
  mercurial autoconf automake groff libtool xterm

Board Support Package

Download & Decompression

Go to Intel® Edison Board Software Downloads and copy the link location for "Sources - Linux Sources Files" then download them

    user@host:~$ wget http://downloadmirror.intel.com/25028/eng/edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz

    --2016-02-28 14:58:27-- http://downloadmirror.intel.com/25028/eng/edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz
    Resolving downloadmirror.intel.com (downloadmirror.intel.com)... 23.216.208.166
    Connecting to downloadmirror.intel.com (downloadmirror.intel.com)|23.216.208.166|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 6195269 (5.9M) [application/x-compressed]
    Saving to: ‘edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz.1’

    edison-src-ww25.5-1 100%[=====================>]   5.91M   987KB/s   in 7.1s   

    2016-02-28 14:58:34 (857 KB/s) - ‘edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz.1’ saved [6195269/6195269]

    user@host:~$ tar zxvf edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz 
    edison-src/
    edison-src/Makefile
    edison-src/meta-intel-edison/
    edison-src/meta-intel-edison/README
    edison-src/meta-intel-edison/MAINTAINERS
    ...
    edison-src/meta-intel-edison/meta-intel-edison-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/files/upstream_to_edison.patch
    edison-src/meta-intel-edison/meta-intel-edison-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/files/defconfig
    edison-src/meta-intel-edison/meta-intel-edison-bsp/README.sources

    user@host:~$ ls
    Makefile  meta-intel-edison

    user@host:~$ ls meta-intel-edison/
    COPYING.MIT  meta-intel-arduino     meta-intel-edison-distro  setup.sh
    MAINTAINERS  meta-intel-edison-bsp  README                    utils