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Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-07-28 22:29:09 +02:00
arch arch: avr32 should only get removed for the 2015.02 release 2014-07-10 22:05:55 +02:00
board qemu/mipsel-malta: update defconfig to Linux 3.15.x 2014-07-26 09:24:14 +02:00
boot grub2: add a tip to create disk image w/o root permission 2014-07-23 23:42:28 +02:00
configs qemu/mipsel-malta: update defconfig to Linux 3.15.x 2014-07-26 09:24:14 +02:00
docs docs/manual: enhance doc for BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_X_Y 2014-07-27 15:06:44 +02:00
fs infra: consistently use double dollar signs inside inner-xxx-targets 2014-06-14 19:09:54 +02:00
linux linux: bump default to version 3.15.6 2014-07-18 20:54:26 +02:00
package perl: handle BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB 2014-07-28 22:29:09 +02:00
support toolchain: add option to copy the gconv libraries 2014-07-27 23:15:48 +02:00
system system: move tz setup outside of default skeleton clause 2014-07-27 22:37:16 +02:00
toolchain toolchain: add option to copy the gconv libraries 2014-07-27 23:15:48 +02:00
.defconfig buildroot: get rid of s390 support 2009-01-12 14:36:14 +00:00
.gitignore update gitignore 2013-05-04 12:41:55 +02:00
CHANGES Update for 2014.05 2014-05-31 09:52:49 +02:00
Config.in luarocks: bump to version 2.2.0beta1 2014-07-26 09:03:22 +02:00
Config.in.legacy busybox: support only one version 2014-07-10 16:40:38 +02:00
COPYING clarify license and fix website license link 2009-05-08 09:29:41 +02:00
Makefile perl: handle BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB 2014-07-28 22:29:09 +02:00
Makefile.legacy Makefile.legacy: fix recursive invocation with BUILDROOT_DL_DIR and _CONFIG 2014-02-11 08:14:57 +01:00
README docs: Move README file to root 2014-03-03 21:28:39 +01:00

To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following:

1) run 'make menuconfig'
2) select the packages you wish to compile
3) run 'make'
4) wait while it compiles
5) Use your shiny new root filesystem. Depending on which sort of
    root filesystem you selected, you may want to loop mount it,
    chroot into it, nfs mount it on your target device, burn it
    to flash, or whatever is appropriate for your target system.

You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot.  Have fun!

Offline build:
==============

In order to do an offline-build (not connected to the net), fetch all
selected source by issuing a
$ make source

before you disconnect.
If your build-host is never connected, then you have to copy buildroot
and your toplevel .config to a machine that has an internet-connection
and issue "make source" there, then copy the content of your dl/ dir to
the build-host.

Building out-of-tree:
=====================

Buildroot supports building out of tree with a syntax similar
to the Linux kernel. To use it, add O=<directory> to the
make command line, E.G.:

$ make O=/tmp/build

And all the output files (including .config) will be located under /tmp/build.

More finegrained configuration:
===============================

You can specify a config-file for uClibc:
$ make UCLIBC_CONFIG_FILE=/my/uClibc.config

And you can specify a config-file for busybox:
$ make BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FILE=/my/busybox.config

To use a non-standard host-compiler (if you do not have 'gcc'),
make sure that the compiler is in your PATH and that the library paths are
setup properly, if your compiler is built dynamically:
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3.orig HOSTCXX=gcc-4.3-mine

Depending on your configuration, there are some targets you can use to
use menuconfig of certain packages. This includes:
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 linux-menuconfig
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 uclibc-menuconfig
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 busybox-menuconfig

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buildroot mailing list: buildroot@buildroot.org