meta-dotnet

Yocto meta-layer for dotnet core 7.0.100 for armv7/aarch64/x86

Compatibility

Branch	Compatible Layers	Supported Arch	dotnet version
master	Kirkstone	x86_64, armv7, aarch64	7.0.100
dunfell	dunfell, zeus	x86_64, armv7, aarch64	7.0.100
pyro	N/A	x86_64, armv7	3.1.101

Usage

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

You may need to add following lines to you local.conf file (enabling access to NuGet.org in configure and compile steps):

do_configure[network] = "1"
do_compile[network] = "1"

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}