petalinux-build --component - 2020.2 English

PetaLinux Tools Documentation Reference Guide (UG1144)

Document ID
UG1144
Release Date
2020-11-24
Version
2020.2 English

The petalinux-build -c option builds the specified component of the embedded system. When no components are specified, the petalinux-build tool operates on the project as a whole. User-created components for the root file system can be built by targeting those components by name (for example, with -c <APP-NAME>). This is equivalent to bitbake <COMPONENT>. Each recipe can be specified as a component for petalinux-build -c <component>. The component can be a user created app or package/package group in the root filesystem.

The petalinux-build command with no arguments runs bitbake petalinux-user-image internally. The default image target is petalinux-image-minimal. There is no restriction on the components, and you can build your own packages. For the names of the packages, search in petalinux-config -c rootfs.

An example to build base-files is as follows:
petalinux-build -c base-files