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-Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a
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-cross-compilation toolchain and root filesystem for your target Linux
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-system using the <a href= "http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc C library</a>.
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-Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with small or embedded
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-systems. Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular
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-x86 processors everyone is used to using on their PC. It can be PowerPC
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-processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc. And to be extra safe,
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-you do not need to be root to build or run Buildroot.
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-<p>
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-
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-Buildroot is maintained by <a href=
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-"mailto:jacmet@uclibc.org">Peter Korsgaard</a>, and
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-licensed under the
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+<p>Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to
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+generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any
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+or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel
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+image and a bootloader image. Buildroot is useful mainly for people
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+working with small or embedded systems, using various CPU
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+architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.) : it automates the
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+building process of your embedded system and eases the
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+cross-compilation process.</p>
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+
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+<p>The major Buildroot features are:</p>
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+<ul>
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+
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+ <li>Can <b>handle everything</b> in your embedded system development
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+ project: cross-compiling toolchain, root filesystem generation,
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+ kernel image compilation and bootloader compilation. Buildroot is
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+ also sufficiently flexible that it can also be used for only one or
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+ several of these steps.</li>
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+
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+ <li>Is <b>very easy</b> to set up, thanks to its menuconfig and
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+ xconfig configuration interfaces, familiar to all embedded Linux
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+ developers. Building a basic embedded Linux system with Buildroot
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+ typically takes 15-30 minutes.</li>
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+
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+ <li>Supports <b>several hundreds of packages</b> for userspace
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+ applications and libraries: X.org stack, Gtk2, Qt, DirectFB, SDL,
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+ GStreamer and a large number of network-related and system-related
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+ utilities and libraries are supported.</li>
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+
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+ <li>Supports <b>multiple filesystem types</b> for the root
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+ filesystem image: JFFS2, UBIFS, tarballs, romfs, cramfs, squashfs
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+ and more.</li>
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+
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+ <li>Can generate an uClibc cross-compilation toolchain, or re-use
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+ your existing glibc, eglibc or uClibc cross-compilation
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+ toolchain</li>
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+
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+ <li>Has a <b>simple structure</b> that makes it easy to understand
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+ and extend. It relies only on the well-know Makefile language.</li>
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+
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+</ul>
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+
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+<p>Buildroot is maintained by <a href=
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+"mailto:jacmet@uclibc.org">Peter Korsgaard</a>, and licensed under the
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU
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-GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V2 (Or later)</a>.
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+GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V2 (Or later)</a>. Stable releases are
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+delivered every three months.</p>
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