OEandYourDistro

See RequiredSoftware for the list of the software required by Openembedded.

Using OpenEmbedded on FreeBSD and other NON Linux Systems

to be done, maybe there is some information in the old wiki

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10)

In addition to the usual, you'll need to install the following packages to get bitbake to run:

• sqlite3
• libsqlite3-0
• python-pysqlite2
• libsqlite3-dev

The last item was a mystery to me, and resolved the ERROR: Importing sqlite3 and pysqlite2 failed message issued by bitbake when a python script tried to import sqlite3.

You will also need the following packages for oe:

• help2man
• diffstat
• texi2html

FreeBSD

• Python == /usr/ports/lang/python
• GNU Patch == /usr/ports/devel/patch
• GNU m4 == /usr/ports/devel/m4
• GNU make == /usr/ports/devel/gmake
• wget == /usr/ports/ftp/wget
• Psyco JIT Compiler == /usr/ports/devel/py-psyco
• ccache == /usr/ports/devel/ccache
• GNU sed == /usr/ports/textproc/gsed
• Bison == /usr/ports/devel/bison
• GCC 2.95.3 == /usr/ports/lang/gcc295
• bc == already in FreeBSD
• PyQt == /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-qt
• glibc headers (ignore)
• subversion == /usr/ports/devel/subversion
• git == /usr/ports/devel/git
• pcre == /usr/ports/devel/pcre

Ports has also has these: fileutils, jade, docbook, dsssl-docbook-modular, sgmltools

Using OpenEmbedded on Mac OS X

to be done, maybe there is some information in the old wiki

Using OpenEmbedded on Windows/Cygwin Systems

Building Openembedded on Windows is currently unsupported, but work is in progress to support buidling of meta-toolchain.bb on Windows/Cygwin hosts.