Questions tagged [buildroot]

Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system, from the cross-compilation toolchain to the complete image for flashing.

Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image.

Whenever you post a question about a Buildroot build failure, please always specify the Buildroot version you're using, and attach the complete Buildroot .config file. Without these details, there is absolutely nothing that the Buildroot developers can do to help you.

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NAND flash & MDT partiton - uboot -- Atmel SAMA5D3 Xplained boards

I have question from page 27 of following doc embedded-linux-labs.pdf. http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/embedded-linux/embedded-linux-labs.pdf See Attached image. Board used is Atmel SAMA5D3 Xplained boards. Here in figure UBI use to go in MDT…
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Unable to link shared object

I'm having issues linking my application to a shared object. I've cleanly built buildroot including packages host-thrift and host-openssl. ldd --verbose libthrift.so yields the following: ./libthrift.so:…
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buildroot is appending a wrong PREFIX to custom package build

I'm trying to include WSO2 WSF/C custom package into a buildroot cross-compile ARM project. Here is the wsfc.mk file so far: ################################################################################ # # WSO2 WSF/C…
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Buildroot add build dependency in the makefiles

We are using buildroot to build the kernel and root file system. The package A has the dependency on package B. I used the "select" keyword in Config.in to select the package B while selecting package A. How can I change the makefiles to build…
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/linux-.tar.xz: Scheme missing with buildroot

I followed all the instructions mentioned on this link:http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-labs.pdf but when I run : make I got these message errors: >>> linux Downloading /linux-.tar.xz: Scheme missing. --2015-08-10…
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RaspberryPi camera with buildroot

I am working with a RaspberryPi 2 model B and an operating system builded with Buildroot (Linux version 4.0.6-v7). I have the camera module but I can't interface it with my Raspberry. Leds on the camera are always turned off, but the camera is…
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How to make a script run in buildroot as a boot script after init

I am building a custom initramfs from buildroot with busybox to be used for automated fdisk partitioning. How/where to put a script file so that busybox boots and executes it automatically.
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PiTFT touchscreen Buildroot

I'm trying to build a raspberry pi image with buildroot to use the PiTFT screen. Buildroot works well and after using: modprobe fbtft_device name=pitft rotate=90 FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx the TinyX server is started on the PiTFT but the…
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Linux for Embedded Systems | NiosII

I have compiled Linux for NiosII. I have a filesystem in RAM. I am using busybox, buildroot to make the file system. Then the kernel is compiled with the file system previously created. Once Linux starts if I run a command like ls (since I wanted to…
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Lua with hard-float on MIPS by buildroot doesn't work

I found something strange. I wrote simple script that print the variable in Lua 5.1. It worked on x86 on linux. I tried to run it on my target device that is MIPS little endian. I prepared the lua by buildroot. I used 'hard-float' option for…
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Reverse enginering a Linux based USB camera

I bought an IP camera on which is installed proprietary software (no HTTP server). This prevents me to integrate it into my home network. I want to replace the software (ELF closed source) by the motion package I already use and add some features. I…
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buildroot toolchain error : dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

I'm trying to generate a toolchain on my ubuntu 12.04 using buildroot and i'm getting this error TEST_LINK locale/ tst-xlocale2 In file included from tst-xlocale2.c:1:0: tst-xlocale2.c: In function…
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Qmake configuration using Buildroot

I’ve tried to add a package to Buildroot that uses Qt and Boost. The package uses qmake to generate a Makefile, this part seems to be working, however I get an error when I build saying: Could not find qmake configuration file…
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Is it possible to use two different versions of same package in buildroot?

Currently used packages in my system are.. buildroot-2011.02 libpng-1.4.5 autoconf-2.65 python-2.7.1 I am trying to upgrade Libpng from version-1.4.5 to version-1.6.8. But the newer version of Libpng requires Autoconf 2.68 or higher. If I update…
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Qt 5.3 with Qt png and jpeg support on Buildroot

The default GIF, JPEG and PNG support from QT5 buildroot configuration menu enables support for system libraries i.e. configure parameters are -system-libjpeg and -system-libpng I want to be able to build Qt with the respective libraries that come…
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