Help With Bb File, I'm new at this bitbake thing... Options

[DoTheDog]

Hi all,
I really need some help with this. I am running Suse 10 and have successfully installed bitbake, the OE.db, compiled a gpe-image and mysql. Here is my question. I am trying to compile plutohome orbiter for the zaurus (akita). PlutoHome is a open source home automation suite. It uses an "orbiter" as a remote using either bt or wifi. I would love to get this software running on my c1000. IF I can get it to compile, I'll get another c1000 or two to use in the new home automation setup.

Here is the problem. As I mentioned above, I have the environment setup such that I can compile anything that already has a recipe/BB file. I am trying to compile PlutoOrbiter. It requires SerializeClass, PlutoUtils, DCE and a number of header files from other Pluto specific packages. I am starting with a relatively simple lib from pluto called SerializeClass. I have successfully compiled it on pocketworkstation on my z but I can't seem to figure out how to compile it using bitbake.

One question is: the source for PlutoHome is in svn. How do I write in the recipe to download it from the svn repository?

Here is my BB file:

LICENSE = "GPL"
DESCRIPTION = "PlutoHome SerializeClass for Akita"
SECTION = "base"
PRIORITY = "optional"
MAINTAINER = ""
DEPENDS = ""
PR = "r1"

SRC_URI = "http://svn.plutohome.com/pluto/trunk/src/SerializeClass/"

S = "${WORKDIR}/SerializeClass-${PV}"

inherit gpe-image

ALLOW_EMPTY = "1"

PACKAGES = "${PN}"

FILES_${PN} = "/usr/local/bin/*"


Here is the result of "bitbake SerializeClass_SVN"
oc60174:/home/oc60174/crosscompileOE/stuff/build # bitbake SerializeClass_SVN
NOTE: Psyco JIT Compiler (http://psyco.sf.net) not available. Install it to increase performance.
NOTE: Using cache in '/home/oc60174/crosscompileOE/stuff/build/tmp/cache'
NOTE: Parsing finished. 2649 cached, 1 parsed, 35 skipped, 0 masked.
NOTE: build 200607162222: started

OE Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION = "1.4.2"
OE_REVISION = "e1e2c14d38a8ce5263bb95e2c150225a0a822a6b"
TARGET_ARCH = "arm"
TARGET_OS = "linux"
MACHINE = "akita"
DISTRO = "openzaurus"
DISTRO_VERSION = "3.5.4.1"
TARGET_FPU = "soft"

ERROR: Nothing provides dependency SerializeClass_SVN
NOTE:

Here is my local.conf file:
DL_DIR = "${HOME}/crosscompileOE/stuff/sources"
BBFILES = "/home/oc60174/crosscompileOE/stuff/org.openembedded.oz354x/packages/*/*.bb"
BBMASK = ""
PREFERRED_PROVIDERS = "virtual/qte:qte virtual/libqpe:libqpe-opie"
PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += " virtual/libsdl:libsdl-qpe"
PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += " virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc-initial:gcc-cross-initial"
PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += " virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc:gcc-cross"
PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += " virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}g++:gcc-cross"
MACHINE = "akita"
TARGET_ARCH = "arm"
TARGET_OS = "linux"
DISTRO = "openzaurus-3.5.4.1"
KERNEL_VERSION = "2.6"
INHERIT = "package_ipk"
IMAGE_FSTYPES = "jffs2 tar"
BBINCLUDELOGS = "yes"
CVS_TARBALL_STASH = "http://www.oesources.org/source/current/"
#added because qemu-native puked on make
ASSUME_PROVIDED +="qemu-native"

Any and all help is very much appreciated.

Rob

[DoTheDog]

lardman,
So here is the last .bb file I tried:

CODE

LICENSE = "GPL"
DESCRIPTION = "SerializeClass try 1"
SECTION = "console/util"
MAINTAINER = "me"
SRC_URI = "svn://svn.plutohome.com/pluto/trunk/src;module=SerializeClass;proto=http \
          svn://svn.plutohome.com/pluto/trunk/src;module=PlutoUtils;proto=http"

S = "${WORKDIR}/${PN}"

inherit autotools

It's called ~/crosscompileOE/stuff/org.openembedded.oz354x/packages/SerializeClass/SerializeClass_1.1.1.bb

It threw the following error:

CODE

oc60174@oc60174:~/crosscompileOE/stuff/build> bitbake SerializeClass
NOTE: Psyco JIT Compiler (http://psyco.sf.net) not available. Install it to increase performance.
NOTE: Using cache in '/home/oc60174/crosscompileOE/stuff/build/tmp/cache'
NOTE: Parsing finished. 2650 cached, 1 parsed, 35 skipped, 0 masked.
NOTE: build 200607182013: started

OE Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION     = "1.4.2"
OE_REVISION    = "e1e2c14d38a8ce5263bb95e2c150225a0a822a6b"
TARGET_ARCH    = "arm"
TARGET_OS      = "linux"
MACHINE        = "akita"
DISTRO         = "openzaurus"
DISTRO_VERSION = "3.5.4.1"
TARGET_FPU     = "soft"

NOTE: package SerializeClass-1.1.1: started
NOTE: package SerializeClass-1.1.1-r0: task do_fetch: started
NOTE: package SerializeClass-1.1.1-r0: task do_fetch: completed
NOTE: package SerializeClass-1.1.1-r0: task do_package: started
ERROR: function do_install failed
ERROR: log data follows (/home/oc60174/crosscompileOE/stuff/build/tmp/work/SerializeClass-1.1.1-r0/temp/log.do_install.7500)
| NOTE: make DESTDIR=/home/oc60174/crosscompileOE/stuff/build/tmp/work/SerializeClass-1.1.1-r0/image install
| make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
| FATAL: oe_runmake failed
NOTE: Task failed: /home/oc60174/crosscompileOE/stuff/build/tmp/work/SerializeClass-1.1.1-r0/temp/log.do_install.7500
NOTE: package SerializeClass-1.1.1-r0: task do_package: failed
ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
NOTE: package SerializeClass-1.1.1: failed
ERROR: Build of SerializeClass failed

Here is the Makefile for SerializeClass

CODE

ROOT = ..
VIP = ../VIPShared
GDEV = ./Gen_Devices
CXXFLAGS = -Wall -g -ggdb3 -D_GNU_SOURCE
CPPFLAGS = -I./ -I../../ -I../ -I../DCE/ -I../../DCE -I../VIPShared/ -I../../VIPShared -I
/usr/include/mysql -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_DEVEL_DEFINES -DUSE_LZO_
DATAGRID
CXX = g++

sources = SerializeClass.cpp

all: libSerializeClass.so all-recursive

libSerializeClass.so: $(sources:.cpp=.o)
       $(CXX) -shared $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $(call cpath,$+)
       cp $@ ../lib

libSerializeClass.a: $(sources:.cpp=.o)
       $(AR) rc $@ $(call cpath,$+)
       cp $@ ../lib

clean:
       rm -f $(call cpath,$(sources:.cpp=.o) $(sources:.cpp=.d)) libSerializeClass.so libSerializeClass.a >/dev/null

#include $(ROOT)/PlutoUtils/make.rules
include /home/oc60174/crosscompileOE/stuff/build/tmp/work/PlutoUtils-1.0-r0/PlutoUtils/make.rules
-include $(sources:.cpp=.d)

It looks like it wants the $(ROOT)/PlutoUtils/make.rules. It may also want ../Gen_Devices. VIPShared isn't required.

I've been trying to compile it native in PocketWorkstation (Sharp ROM) using gcc-2.95. I had to download from svn the following:

CreateDevice, DCE, Gen_Devices, Orbiter, pluto_main, PlutoUtils,RA, SerializeClass, Splitter, utilities

I compiled SerializeClass first, PlutoUtils, DCE, then Orbiter. I'm trying to compile Orbiter now, it is throwing out of memory errors, but I think I have that beat. It is taking a long time.

Some other dependencies: I used apt-get
libhttpfetcher-dev
mysql-server
libsdl1.2-dev
libsdl-sge-dev
libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
libxtst-dev
libxmu-dev
libsdl-gfx1.2-dev

it would be very cool to get this going. I want to use this for my home automation software.

Again, Thanks for your help lardman!

Rob

[koen]

It's called ~/crosscompileOE/stuff/org.openembedded.oz354x/packages/SerializeClass/SerializeClass_1.1.1.bb

package names can only contain [a-z][0-9], so the use of capitals will blow up in your face at packaging time.