Posted 12 August 2020 - 16:18
ipk's are created by the build process, by bitbake, based on a bitbake build recipe.
You can construct it manually, for which you need "ar" to pack and unpack it (no idea if a Windows compatible version exists), and "tar" / "gzip" to work with the archives inside the ipk.
Any source editor will do, as long as it can save files in UTF-8 with linux line-ends (LF instead of CR-LF).
Currently in use: VU+ Duo 4K (2xFBC S2), VU+ Solo 4K (1xFBC S2), uClan Usytm 4K Ultimate (S2+T2), Octagon SF8008 (S2+T2), Zgemma H9.2H (S2+T2)
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