| Arnout Vandecappelle | e8a3da4 | 2015-03-21 20:49:48 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded |
| 2 | Linux systems through cross-compilation. |
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| 4 | The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text |
| 5 | document with 'make manual-text' and read output/docs/manual/manual.text. |
| 6 | Online documentation can be found at http://buildroot.org/docs.html |
| 7 | |
| Eric Andersen | ffde94b | 2001-12-22 00:56:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following: |
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| Ulf Samuelsson | 2a7d563 | 2007-08-01 08:11:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | 1) run 'make menuconfig' |
| Arnout Vandecappelle | e8a3da4 | 2015-03-21 20:49:48 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | 2) select the target architecture and the packages you wish to compile |
| Eric Andersen | c7af927 | 2004-10-09 06:27:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | 3) run 'make' |
| 13 | 4) wait while it compiles |
| Arnout Vandecappelle | e8a3da4 | 2015-03-21 20:49:48 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | 5) find the kernel, bootloader, root filesystem, etc. in output/images |
| Eric Andersen | ffde94b | 2001-12-22 00:56:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| Eric Andersen | c7af927 | 2004-10-09 06:27:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot. Have fun! |
| Eric Andersen | ffde94b | 2001-12-22 00:56:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
| Arnout Vandecappelle | 33bb282 | 2015-03-21 20:57:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 18 | Buildroot comes with a basic configuration for a number of boards. Run |
| 19 | 'make list-defconfigs' to view the list of provided configurations. |
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| Peter Korsgaard | 9d40356 | 2009-01-15 14:50:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the |
| Thomas De Schampheleire | 2f78767 | 2014-02-12 17:54:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | buildroot mailing list: buildroot@buildroot.org |
| Arnout Vandecappelle | e8a3da4 | 2015-03-21 20:49:48 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | You can also find us on #buildroot on Freenode IRC. |