Yocto: cannot build meta-mono

I'm trying to build an embedded system with yocto poky. My layers are:

BBLAYERS ?= " \
  /home/dev/microzed/meta \
  /home/dev/microzed/meta-yocto \
  /home/dev/microzed/meta-yocto-bsp \
  /home/dev/microzed/meta-xilinx \
  /home/dev/microzed/meta-mono \
  "

with git clones:

git clone -b master git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git ~/microzed
git clone -b master git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-xilinx ~/microzed/meta-xilinx
git clone -b master git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-mono ~/microzed/meta-mono

with bitbake core-image-minimal it all compiles and runs - but no mono.

So if I try to bitbake mono: bitbake core-image-mono it fails with the error:

ERROR: Required build target 'core-image-mono' has no buildable providers. Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-mono', 'mono-helloworld', 'mono', 'libgdiplus', 'giflib']

not sure how to resolve this. I don't actually need libgdiplus either... :/ in previous versions it was easy to remove, but the current master seems to have the dependency in quite a few places.

Solution

Requires meta-oe

git clone -b master git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded ~/microzed/meta-openembedded

plus the layer:

    /home/dev/microzed/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \

you can compile console-only build with:

bitbake core-image-mono-console