# Build the robotics image with the prebuilt robotics eSDK

Use the prebuilt platform extended SDK (eSDK) to build the robotics image.

The robotics eSDK is an installer generated from the Qualcomm Linux image and provides a complete Yocto environment that allows you to synchronize, modify, compile, and install applications.

**Prerequisites**

- An Ubuntu 22.04 host computer with at least 50 GB of free space.
- You have downloaded the prebuilt robotics image with steps in [Download the prebuilt packages](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-70023-265/topic/quick_start.html#dl-prebuilt).

**Steps**

1. Install the eSDK by running the installer script.

Note

For the location of eSDK, see [Download the prebuilt packages](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-70023-265/topic/quick_start.html#dl-prebuilt).

Note

The following steps use the x86 architecture prebuilt eSDK as an example. The operations for other versions are similar.

    1. Run the following commands to run the installer script:

> 
> 
> Tab RB3 Gen 2 Vision Development Kit
> Tab IQ-9075 Evaluation Kit
> 
> cd <decompressed_workspace>/target/qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-kit/sdk
>         umask a+rx
>         sh ./qcom-robotics-ros2-jazzy-x86_64-qcom-robotics-full-image-armv8-2a-qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-kit-toolchain-ext-2.5.0.sh
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> 
> cd <decompressed_workspace>/target/qcs9075-iq-9075-evk/sdk
>         umask a+rx
>         sh ./qcom-robotics-ros2-jazzy-x86_64-qcom-robotics-full-image-armv8-2a-qcs9075-iq-9075-evk-toolchain-ext-2.5.0.sh
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    2. When you see the following prompt, select <kbd class="kbd docutils literal notranslate">Enter</kbd> or type a custom directory for eSDK installation.

QCOM Robotics Reference Distro with ROS Extensible SDK installer version 1.0

============================================================================

Enter target directory for SDK (default: ~/qcom-robotics-ros2-jazzy\_sdk):
2. Follow the instructions on the console to install the Platform eSDK in a convenient path of your host computer.
3. Ensure that the eSDK installation is successful when you see the following prompt.

SDK has been successfully set up and is ready to be used.

Each time you wish to use the SDK in a new shell session, you need to source the environment setup script.
4. Set up the eSDK and build the robotics image.

. environment-setup-armv8-2a-qcom-linux
        devtool build-image qcom-robotics-full-image
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    Output image path:

Tab RB3 Gen 2 Vision Development Kit
Tab IQ-9075 Evaluation Kit

&lt;eSDK\_install\_path&gt;/tmp/deploy/images/qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-kit/qcom-robotics-full-image

&lt;eSDK\_install\_path&gt;/tmp/deploy/images/qcs9075-iq-9075-evk/qcom-robotics-full-image

Note

The `<eSDK_install_path>` is the default or custom path specified in [Step 1](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-70023-265/topic/esdk_gen_image.html#id-install-esdk).

## Develop with the eSDK

To develop your own application with the eSDK, see the Yocto
documentation: [Using devtool in your SDK workflow](https://docs.yoctoproject.org/singleindex.html#using-devtool-in-your-sdk-workflow).

Last Published: Dec 29, 2025

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