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1 | Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded |
| 2 | Linux systems through cross-compilation. | |
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| 4 | The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text | |
| 5 | document with 'make manual-text' and read output/docs/manual/manual.text. | |
| 6 | Online documentation can be found at http://buildroot.org/docs.html | |
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8 | To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following: |
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| 2a7d563e | 10 | 1) run 'make menuconfig' |
| e8a3da43 | 11 | 2) select the target architecture and the packages you wish to compile |
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12 | 3) run 'make' |
| 13 | 4) wait while it compiles | |
| e8a3da43 | 14 | 5) find the kernel, bootloader, root filesystem, etc. in output/images |
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| 16 | You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot. Have fun! | |
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18 | Buildroot comes with a basic configuration for a number of boards. Run |
| 19 | 'make list-defconfigs' to view the list of provided configurations. | |
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| 9d40356a | 21 | Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the |
| 2f78767b | 22 | buildroot mailing list: [email protected] |
| fe3cb797 | 23 | You can also find us on #buildroot on OFTC IRC. |
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| 25 | If you would like to contribute patches, please read | |
| 26 | https://buildroot.org/manual.html#submitting-patches |