Yocto Docker Template * experimental

This project provides a ready-to-use Docker environment for Yocto Project builds.

Features

• Based on Ubuntu 22.04
• Non-root user (yocto) with password (yocto) inside the container
• UTF-8 locale properly set
• Workspace mounted to host machine to preserve build artifacts. (build, downloads, state-cache)
• Full automation with run.ps1 (for Windows users), setup-env.sh (for other users)

Prerequisites

To run with Windows

• Docker Desktop with WSL2 backend (recommended)
• Bash available (bash command from WSL or Git Bash)

To run with other

• Docker

Usage

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/myhalici/yocto-docker-template.git
   cd yocto-docker-template

2. Run the prepare environment script;

   • for Windows 11 Powershell [ Run as administrator ] (you may need to set PATH for bash.exe if you get error for bash)

     .\run.ps1

   • for others

     ./setup.env.sh

3. Docker container will be up, running and poky will be downloaded as scarthgap branch, sourced environment.

Output

• Windows 11
  • C:\\yocto\\builds
  • C:\\yocto\\downloads
  • C:\\yocto\\sstate-cache
• Others
  • /c/yocto/builds
  • /c/yocto/downloads
  • /c/yocto/sstate-cache

experimental