yocto and OpenEmbedded provide the tools necessary to create small customised linux distributions aimed at embedded systems.

meta-ost is the layer containing recipes required for various OST projects.

images

For setting up the build environment, see Setup and Building.

Check out Getting Started with Yocto and C/C++ to get started developing a C/C++ application using cmake and yocto.

Learn about how to layers should be structured, about how our CI/CD pipeline works and about how you could commit to the project in Structure / Workflow.

Learn about Yocto and bitbake which uses recipes structured in various layers to build custom images, see Introduction to Yocto/OpenEmbedded.

Read about Layers and Recipes therein.

Use devtool to add, modify and test new recipes.

ros

There are essentially three ways to build on/for a yocto image:

• include the toolchain in the image and build natively (not recommended)
• SDK
• extensible SDK

See SDK's