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 \
> > +"
> > --
> > 2.42.0
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