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