Building OpenEmbedded

Building OpenXT is current unfortunately quite tricky. We are working
on simplifying the procedure and help is welcome.

There are several different sets of binaries that can be built:

1. The OpenEmbedded build, which produces a platform installer ISO and
   many additional binary packages and related files, and requires a 32
   bit Debian squeeze machine, and takes about 6 hours and 150GB of disk
   space.

2. The Windows tools build, which requires a Windows machine, the
   Microsoft Device Driver Kit (DDK), and Visual Studio (TODO: confirm versions).

3. The CentOS tools and SyncXT server RPMs, which requires a CentOS 6 machine.

The OpenEmbedded build

Basic OpenEmbedded packages Follow the instructions for debian at

OEandYourDistro on the OpenEmbedded
wiki
for installing a few packages required to get OpenEmbedded
going. OpenEmbedded itself will download and install a lot of
toolchain materials (e.g. specific compiler versions).

Additional OpenXT specific packages

Install also these Debian packages:

ghc guilt iasl quilt bin86 bcc libsdl1.2-dev liburi-perl genisoimage                                                                                                  

Clone openxt.git

The first build scripts exist in openxt.git (along with this README.md file), so clone that:

git clone git://[email protected]/OpenXT/openxt.git