Buildroot
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| Developer(s) | Peter Korsgaard and others |
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| Initial release | January 12, 2005 |
| Stable release |
2017.02.1 / April 4, 2017
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| Preview release |
2016.05-rc3 / May 26, 2016
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| Repository | git |
| Written in | Make, shell and C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | Embedded Linux |
| Type | Build automation |
| License | GNU GPL version 2 or later |
| Website | www |
Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that simplifies and automates the process of building a complete and bootable Linux environment for an embedded system, while using cross-compilation to allow building for multiple target platforms on a single Linux-based development system. Buildroot can automatically build the required cross-compilation toolchain, create a root file system, compile a Linux kernel image, and generate a boot loader for the targeted embedded system, or it can perform any independent combination of these steps. For example, an already installed cross-compilation toolchain can be used independently, while Buildroot only creates the root file system.
Buildroot is primarily intended to be used with small or embedded systems based on various computer architectures and instruction set architectures (ISAs), including x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC. Numerous architectures and their variants are supported; Buildroot also comes with default configurations for several off-the-shelf available embedded boards, such as Cubieboard, Raspberry Pi and SheevaPlug. Several third-party projects and products use Buildroot as the basis for their build systems, including the OpenWrt project that creates an embedded operating system, and firmware for the customer-premises equipment (CPE) used by the Google Fiber broadband service.
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