Chapter 3. Creating the helloworld Recipe

In the previous chapter, you learned the history of BitBake, its options, and how it works. In this chapter, we will create our first demo application, a very basic one, helloworld demo. Creating and running such an application does not require much effort. In this chapter, we will:

• Learn the basic elements of a recipe

• Learn the contents of work and build directory

• Have an overview of tasks

• Learn how to deploy packages