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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Can we generate FIT image from legacy 'Image' for U -boot (Raspberry pi 4B)

I am trying a boot a custom kernel and bootloader on Raspberry Pi 4B. I have generated linux kernel using buildroot using RPi4 Defconfig and compiled u-boot to boot this kernel. This I was able to achieve successfully. But now, I want to generate a…
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Correct auto unmount of pen drive

I searched for similar posts but couldn't find any. I'm looking for some advice or a point in the right direction as I can't find much information on this subject. I'm trying to write a daemon on a raspberry pi 4 running custom linux build from…
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WebkitGtk application is not loading file URL

I am building a kiosk application using webkitgtk on the raspberry pi 4. This application will not be connected to the internet and all the html,css, javascript for the UI are all located on the local filesystem. I am using buildroot to setup the…
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Combining uboot and Linux Kernel Image and deploying to Target Device without File System

I have a compiled linux kernel in the form of uImage for the target device I also have uboot image for the target device. However, I need an img file that takes the uboot and kernel image and combines them along with the file system to create an…
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Cross Compile V8 using Buildroot toolchain

Is anyone able to offer advice on cross-compiling V8 using a Buildroot toolchain? I need to embed the V8 monolith lib into a C++ app currently using CMake. Under Buildroot cmake packages are automagically provided with a toolchain.cmake file to…
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error compiling linux kernel using buildroot toolchain

I am trying to compile linux kernel v5.9.12 using my buildroot toolchain (2020.08.2) and I keep getting an error related to libfdt. I can't figure out how to fix this and I've been banging my head against the wall for several hours…
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LZOP 1.03 ACC Conformance check fails

Trying to build LZOP as part of rpi-buildroot build. Keep getting ACC conformance failure. Is there a way to turn off this check ? It seems like its justa different way of doing gzip. Is there a way to remove it from the build?
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cross-compile python ModuleNotFoundError: where the module info is from?

I'm cross-building python 3.8. Two errors look simiar: $ python3 -m venv . Error: Command '['/home/p3t/penv386/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1. $ bin/python3 -Im ensurepip --upgrade…
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Incomplete WEBKITGTK build

I am running buildroot on a fedora32 machine. I enebale the webkitgtk package. Downloading and configuring of the source runs with no errors However, when during the build process, make throws an error and crashes. I am fiarly new to linux and GTK…
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Embedded Buildroot and Yocto Linux crash 50% of the time

I am getting the below error 50% of the time during startup on an STM32 based processor (OSD32MP15x). I've tried over 40 versions configs and setups none work and I am under high pressure to deliver this piece of hardware to a client. To me this…
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Force Kernel Dependencies Not Inlcude Certain Module

I have a kernel module modA.ko that depends upon exported symbols. exported_func1(void) exported_func2(void) And I have two other modules modB.ko and modC.ko that has the definitions for exported functions separately. Function signature is the same…
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Installing GCC after flashing SD-Card / Buildroot Distro

I am brand-new to Buildroot and didn’t use embedded systems or distros a lot. I successfully flashed my STM32 and have buildroot as distro on it but after flashing it I figured out that I needed to install gcc package. I didn’t find the gcc package…
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Modify the buildroot pkg-generic.mk to apply patches to a local package?

Based off my last question here Buildroot is not applying patches to my package because of the given answer to my previous question... But I would think there would be a way to add in the logic to apply the patches anyways? Here is the section of…
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Buildroot initramfs boots up into non-interactive busybox shell

I am using Buildroot to build an initramfs image for my IMX Board. On the board, I run a custom Linux 4.19.35 Linux kernel (4.19.35-gexxxxxx) and a custom U-Boot bootloader. Hence, do not require these from Buildroot. My use case is only the…
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Specifying C library when compiling with buildroot

I'm compiling a toolchain and rootfs with buildroot. If I run make menuconfig, I can select uClibc-ng in Toolchain/C library. That's fine, but now it compiles uclibc-1.0.32. Unfortunately my target system has some internal programs which were…
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