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Baking Our First Poky-Based System

Let’s get our hands dirty! In this chapter, we will understand the basic concepts involved in the Poky workflow. We will cover the steps to download, configure, and prepare the Poky build environment and bake something usable. The steps covered here are common for testing and development. They will give us some experience using Poky and a taste of its capabilities.

Preparing the build host system

This section describes how to prepare Windows and Linux distribution host systems. Although we will describe the Windows steps, we will focus on using a Linux distribution host system.

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The use of macOS as a host system is possible. Still, it involves using the CROss PlatformS (CROPS) framework, which leverages ...

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