Building Opie distribution for iPaq h191x and Asus MyPal 716
Requirements
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x86 platform with decend CPU speed
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at least 512 MB RAM (it's not minimum limit)
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32 bit version of Debian 3.1R5 Sarge with updates or Debian 4.0 Eth
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at least 8 GB free HD space (not including system)
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sudo rights for your username
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internet with decent bandwitch to download sources (about 500MB of sources)
Setup
Steps you do as normal user.
Installing additional packages
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sudo apt-get install binutils libc6-dev gcc g++ patch make m4 qemu diff diffstat xdelta zip bzip2 gzip tar bison wget curl cvs subversion ftp git-core perl libpcre3-dev python python-dev python-psyco ccache expat libexpat1-dev libxml-parser-perl docbook texi2html openjade sgml-base sgml-data texinfo openjade
Installing bitbake tool
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Download
![[WWW]](/moin/handhelds/img/moin-www.png)
Bitbake source into temporary directory and untar.
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inside bitbake source directory run: sudo ./setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local --install-data=/usr/local/share
Prepare directory structure
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make directory: sudo mkdir /stuff
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change owner to your user name: sudo chown 'yours username' /stuff
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cd /stuff
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mkdir -p oe/opie/sources
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cd /stuff/oe/opie
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wget
meta-opie.tar.bz2
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tar xjvf meta-opie.tar.bz2
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mkdir -p build/conf
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cd /stuff/oe/opie/build/conf
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wget
local.conf
Edit environment variables
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add below lines to .bash_profile in yours home directory:
export OEBASE=/stuff/oe
export BBPATH=${OEBASE}/opie/build:${OEBASE}/opie/meta
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re-login to apply environment variables changes
Building
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cd /stuff/oe/opie/build
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bitbake opie-image
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and very long wait ...
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finaly you should get image builded in /stuff/oe/opie/build/tmp/deploy/images
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bitbake world (it's optionaly and will build rest of packages)
