meta-dotnet

Yocto meta-layer for dotnet core 6.0.1 for armv7/aarch64/x86

Usage

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

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

DESCRIPTION = "My dot net core 3.1 app"
LICENSE = "CLOSED"

SRC_URI = "file://hello-world.cs \
           file://hello-world.csproj \
"

inherit dotnet

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

• Automatically download the host dotnet sdk for linux x64 as a native build tool dotnet-sdk-native (In the future this could become mac and windows compatible, but I only yocto on linux)
• Performs the required build steps dotnet restore and dotnet build -c Release ...

Deployment

The resultant application is a self-contained, compressed, trimmed package. No dotnet runtime is required on the target rootfs

The applications will be installed at /opt/dotnet/${PN}