taborkelly / meta-swift

Yocto meta-layer for building swift applications

meta-swift

Yocto meta-layer for swift-on-arm (Swift 5.1.2)

Usage

Add this meta layer to your project (refer to yocto user manual)

Create a new swift application and include it in your yocto build as follows...

DESCRIPTION = "My swift 5.1.3 app"
LICENSE = "CLOSED"

SRC_URI = "file://Sources/hello-world/main.swift \
           file://Package.swift \
"

inherit swift

This does a few things, when you inherit swift meta-layer class, it will does the following...

• Automatically download the x86_64 and ARMv7 swift 5.1.2 binaries and create a cross-compiling sys-root
• Add an RDEPENDS_${PN} for swift which is the arm v7 runtime
• Performs the required build steps

Deployment

The user of this meta-layer must provide their own do_install function.

The finished binaries are located in ${WORKDIR}/.build/release/*