Tools, Scripts, Tipps and Tricks

There are quite a few scripts/tools out there that will help in automatically generating a toolchain, a root filesystem, a ROM image, and other components of an embedded Linux system.

This is a collection of such tools, scripts, tipps and tricks:

• buildroot: http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/
  This is a set of scripts maintained by Erik Andersen (uClibc, BusyBox^?, TinyLogin^?, etc.) that can be used to build quite a few components (including toolchain for host and target binaries.) Though I haven't used buildroot, the content of the scripts is one of the best I've seen (well organized and thorough).
• PTXdist: http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist_en.html
  This tool is maintained by Robert Schwebel (utelnetd, RTAI documentation, etc.) that creates root filesystems. It relies on the use of a KConfig-based frontend. There are nice screenshots.
• Bill Gatliff's build script:
  http://billgatliff.com/twiki/bin/view/Crossgcc/BuildToolchainScript This is one script which builds a toolchain made by Bill Gatliff (gdb stubs, regular contributor to Embedded Systems Programing, reviewed my book, etc.)
• Craig Hollabaugh's build scripts:
  http://www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com/sourcecode.shtml These are the scripts Craig used in his "Embedded Linux" book. There is a buildtoolchain.tar.gz, which is the set of script used to build the toolchain, and there's buildrootfilesystem, which is used to ... well, build the root filesystem
• Richard Atterer's build script:
  http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/debian/ Again, a script to build a toolchain.
• David A. Desrosiers' build script:
  http://libarynth.f0.am/cgi-bin/view/Libarynth/CrossCompiler Yet another toolchain build script.

[From: Karim Yaghmour on the etux mailing list.]

-- WolfgangDenk - 16 May 200