Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that allows you to easily - generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem and a Linux - kernel image for your target. Buildroot can be used for one, two or all +
Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that allows you to easily + generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem and a Linux + kernel image for your target. Buildroot can be used for one, two or all of these options, independently.
-Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems. - Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86 - processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC +
Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems. + Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86 + processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc.
-A compilation toolchain is the set of tools that allows you to
- compile code for your system. It consists of a compiler (in our case,
- gcc), binary utils like assembler and linker (in our case,
- binutils) and a C standard library (for example
- GNU Libc,
- uClibc or
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A compilation toolchain is the set of tools that allows you to
+ compile code for your system. It consists of a compiler (in our case,
+ gcc), binary utils like assembler and linker (in our case,
+ binutils) and a C standard library (for example
+ GNU Libc,
+ uClibc or
dietlibc). The system installed
on your development station certainly already has a compilation
toolchain that you can use to compile an application that runs on your