How I learned Yocto Project, Qt and why you would do the same

A guide to introducing you to Yocto Project and Qt. The knowledge allows you to deploy Qt made applications to embedded devices running Poky distributions/Yocto Project

Introductory notes

If you are here, it is likely that you are willing to deploy your (Qt made) work to a custom Linux distribution (prepared with Yocto Project).

Yocto Project and embedded Linux

Yocto Project is an amazing tool that allows you to produce a Linux distribution, called Poky, out of the bare packages.

Why would you need that? You have got numerous other Linux distributions to fulfill many if not all your needs in terms of using Linux for the technical purpose you have figured out. Lots of stuff is open source, there are commercial versions as well.

Well, the secret word is “customization”. Yocto Project is about the customization you will hardly achieve, or if you achieve it, it would involve a greater amount of work using some other methods or Linux distro.

Take this scenario, you have got a very limited piece of hardware, some single-board computer (SBC) with scarce memory, processor, energy consumption out of it. Yet, this single-board computer is a cost-effective solution…