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<h2 id="about">About Buildroot</h2>
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- <p>Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that allows you to easily
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- generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem and a Linux
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- kernel image for your target. Buildroot can be used for one, two or all
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+ <p>Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that allows you to easily
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+ generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem and a Linux
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+ kernel image for your target. Buildroot can be used for one, two or all
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of these options, independently.</p>
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- <p>Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems.
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- Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86
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- processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC
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+ <p>Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems.
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+ Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86
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+ processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC
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processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc.</p>
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- <p>A compilation toolchain is the set of tools that allows you to
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- compile code for your system. It consists of a compiler (in our case,
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- <code>gcc</code>), binary utils like assembler and linker (in our case,
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- <code>binutils</code>) and a C standard library (for example
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- <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU Libc</a>,
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- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> or
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+ <p>A compilation toolchain is the set of tools that allows you to
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+ compile code for your system. It consists of a compiler (in our case,
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+ <code>gcc</code>), binary utils like assembler and linker (in our case,
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+ <code>binutils</code>) and a C standard library (for example
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+ <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU Libc</a>,
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+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> or
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<a href="http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/">dietlibc</a>). The system installed
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on your development station certainly already has a compilation
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toolchain that you can use to compile an application that runs on your
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