yocto SDK krogoth cmake FindBoost not found - sdk

Question

I am trying to find the boost libraries (cmake) inside the Yocto SDK with extended environment on krogoth.
The default cmake Find_
find_package(Boost REQUIRED)
The standard error message
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
Unable to find the Boost header files. Please set BOOST_ROOT to the root
directory containing Boost or BOOST_INCLUDEDIR to the directory containing
Boost's headers.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:3 (find_package)
The following is a snippet from my conf/local.conf
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " boost-dev"
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " boost"
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " kernel-devsrc"
MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "kernel-module-hello"
KERNEL_MODULE_AUTO_lOAD += "hello-md"
LCHAIN_HOST_TASK_append = "${SDK_EXTRA_TOOLS}"
SDK_EXTRA_TOOLS = " nativesdk-cmake
I am using the native cmake
auke#xenialxerus:~/workspace/beaglebone-dev/build$ which cmake
/home/auke/workspace/beaglebone-dev/poky-sdk/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/
since I:
source environment-setup-cortexa8hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
looking for the usual headers in:
find ./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/
..
/tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/list/to_seq.hpp
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/list/to_tuple.hpp
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/to_list.hpp
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/empty.hpp
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/is_list.hpp
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/size.hpp
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/get_type.hpp
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/assert_is_identifier.hpp
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/include/boost/vmd/is_number.hpp
..
just like the binaries:
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_system-mt.a
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.60.0
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_serialization-mt.a
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-mt.a
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_date_time.a
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_thread.so
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_signals-mt.a
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-mt.so
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_graph-mt.a
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_regex.so
./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/usr/lib/libboost_wserialization.so.1
Is there something that i might have overlooked?
regards Auke

Answer 1

You should use
bitbake -c populate_sdk <image_name> to generate the SDK based on your image;
As an alternative to locating and downloading a toolchain installer,
you can build the toolchain installer one of two ways if you have a
Build Directory:
*Use bitbake meta-toolchain. This method requires you to still install
the target sysroot by installing and extracting it separately. For
information on how to install the sysroot, see the "Extracting the
Root Filesystem" section.
*Use bitbake -c populate_sdk. This method has significant
advantages over the previous method because it results in a toolchain
installer that contains the sysroot that matches your target root
filesystem.
Also, using the variable TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK to add more packages.
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/ref-manual/ref-manual.html
This variable lists packages the OpenEmbedded build system uses when
building an SDK, which contains a cross-development environment. The
packages specified by this variable are part of the toolchain set that
runs on the SDKMACHINE, and each package should usually have the
prefix "nativesdk-". When building an SDK using bitbake -c
populate_sdk , a default list of packages is set in this
variable, but you can add additional packages to the list.
e.g.
TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK += “nativesdk-libqt5core-dev”