I am trying with the tarball but it is quite hard, since it doesn't come with a CMakeLists.txt.
There is a recipe here, but it involves a lot of patching which could potentially be painful to maintain

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/issues/330#issuecomment-1123685779
On Nov. 11 2023, at 8:01 pm, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 10:38 AM Jan Claußen <jan.claussen10@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > It also needs a utf-8 locale to work. Else you have to force utf-8 mode with a flag. I haven't included this as dependency at this point.
>
> you want to express all that is needed to get it running amicably.
> keeping in mind that we have glibc and musl based systems to service
> it will be good to check it on musl too.
>
> >
> > On Nov. 11 2023, at 7:35 pm, Jan Claußen <jan.claussen10@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > Glad that it arrived now! This is a really great resource monitor. It is building from the git repository. Do you think it is better to use the release instead?
> >
> > On Nov. 11 2023, at 7:30 pm, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your contribution Jan
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 10:26 AM Jan Claußen <jan.claussen10@web.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > ---
> > > meta-oe/recipes-support/btop/btop_1.2.13.bb | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-support/btop/btop_1.2.13.bb
> > >
> > > diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/btop/btop_1.2.13.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/btop/btop_1.2.13.bb
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000..f780a993a
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/btop/btop_1.2.13.bb
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> > > +SUMMARY = "Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes."
> > > +HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/aristocratos/btop"
> > > +LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
> > > +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=3b83ef96387f14655fc854ddc3c6bd57"
> > > +SECTION = "console/utils"
> > > +
> > > +SRC_URI = "git://github.com/aristocratos/btop.git;protocol=https;branch=main"
> > > +SRCREV = "2a864f6f2ea60df16b3f015885eb3c18a48b9b78"
> > > +
> > > +S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
> > > +
> > > +inherit cmake
> > > +
> > > +FILES:${PN} += " \
> > > + /usr/share/icons \
> >
> > Lets use ${datadir} instead of hardcoded /usr/share
> >
> > > + /usr/share/icons/hicolor \
> > > + /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 \
> > > + /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable \
> > > + /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps \
> > > + /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/btop.png \
> > > + /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps \
> > > + /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/btop.svg \
> > > +"
> > > --
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