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Mastering Embedded Linux Development
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The current versions of Buildroot can build a toolchain, a bootloader, a kernel, and a root filesystem. Buildroot uses GNU Make as its principal build tool. There is good online documentation at https://buildroot.org/docs.html along with The Buildroot user manual at https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html.
Buildroot was one of the first build systems. It began when the uClinux and uClibc projects needed a way to generate a small root filesystem for testing. Buildroot became a separate project in late 2001 and continued to evolve through 2006, after which it went into a dormant phase.
However, since Peter Korsgaard took over stewardship in 2009, it has been developing rapidly, adding support for glibc-based toolchains and a greatly increased number of packages and target boards. Peter is still the lead maintainer of Buildroot and has had a long and illustrious career as a software engineer at Barco in Belgium.
Buildroot is...