Bitbake Cheat Sheet

Here are some quick notes on bitbake syntax and rules. For an exhaustive list of functionality, and longer descriptions, see the bitbake manual at: http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/

Note that this link goes to the OpenEmbedded version of the bitbake manual, which is a version from 2006 as of this writing. A separate bitbake manual is included in source form in the yocto project source directory, under bitbake/doc. The yocto version of the manual is more recent, but I can't find a published version of it to link to.

Command Line options
Here are a few commonly-used command line options.

User interfaces
Bitbake can be used with several different user interfaces. Here are some options:

.bb file syntax
This table lists some of the syntax found in recipe (.bb) files.