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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Xenomai modules installation using Buildroot

I would like to test Xenomai features with the latency test under a specified load but when I try to execute the command the follwing error shows up. # ./latency -p 100 sh: ./latency command not found The system has been built with Buildroot. In…
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Cross compiling with existing rootfs and external toolchain (buildroot? qemu?)

I am working on an arm embedded platform based on the Cortex A9, very similar to the hummingboard (http://www.solid-run.com/products/hummingboard/). I am working on porting over some of our software that was previously running on a beaglebone. Our…
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TinyX shows display using builtin fbtft touchscreen driver but touch doesn't work

I'm using an "adafruitts" touchscreen with a raspi to control a usb peripheral. The full raspbian kernel takes forever to boot (50 seconds), and part of that is due to the touchscreen driver loading (by modprobe/udev) and initializing. During…
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buildroot does not copy C++ headers to sysroot

I started to used buildroot for my project. The project uses the codesourcery arm 2013.05. All works fine, I have create bootable kernel image and a proper rootfs. Adding c based autotools packages is no problem. The programs created by the…
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Add a Qmake package to buildroot

I'm trying to add a Qmake package to buildroot, the package is called DummyPgm. I've managed to get it into the menu and select it, but during the build process the Makefile isn't found. I get an error message saying: >>> dummypgm 0.1.0…
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qmake searching for library in absolute path

I am cross-compiling a Qt Application. My host is a Ubuntu system and target is ARM board with buildroot based filesystem and I am using Qt 5.3.1. When I try to run make, I get the following error: …
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How to build FLAT userspace binary for ucLinux on buildroot with arm2010q1 toolchain

I have a buildroot system for cortex-M3 without MMU based on ucLinux kernel 2.6.33. Support for FLAT, ZFLAT, SHARED_FLAT enabled in kernel. Inside buildroot everything is set to M3 etc. I have working system with working kernel and busybox (which…
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Buildroot - System doesn't boot - /dev/ttyS0 no such file

I m using buildroot to create a filesystem for a Raspberry Pi. I have uncompressed the filesystem image in the Root partition of my SD card but I can't boot the operative system. I get the following errors: Can't open /dev/null no such file or…
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how to make the Buildroot embedded linux file system persistence?

I have built an embedded linux using buildroot. after generating rootfs.tar file system, I have tested the embedded linux and figured out that every change I made to the linux is not taking place after reboot. my question is: how to enable buildroot…
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Build error: QT Headers before X11

I am using Buildroot to create Rootfs for embedded system When trying to build QT, I get this build error: `compiling egl/qegl_qws.cpp egl/qegl_qws.cpp:1:0: warning: switch -mcpu=cortex-a15 conflicts with -march=armv7-a switch [enabled by…
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How extract the package source into the some other directory in buildroot

Here my package is net-snmp. Here is the task : Addition of Net-SNMP Source directory at path personal/apps/snmp/ Requirement is that it should download from website if there is change in version name and it should patch , configure and build…
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buildroot : predefs.h header error

I'm using buildroot to build OS for Raspberry. when compiling I get this error BuildRoot/bsquask/host/usr/arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/include/bits/predefs.h:20:3: error: #error "Never use directly; include
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Need to build automake for the host in buildroot

I have just upgraded to latest version of buildroot. With the previous version after buildroot was done, I would see automake/autoconf in my uclibc/usr/bin. But with the latest version of buildroot ( 2014 ), I dont see that anymore. Can anyone let…
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Can buildroot rootfs install angstrom package using opkg?

I’m using beagleboard-xm,and created rootfs with buildroot,adding opkg package. Now, I want add some package in angstrom, so I add opkg update source in /etc/opkg/base-feed.conf… src/gz base…
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GCC: Difference between buildroot gcc and precompiled gcc (installed with APT)?

I'm trying to make custom binaries for initrd for x86 system. I took generic precompiled Debian 7 gcc (version 4.7.2-5) and compiled kernel with it. Next step was to make helloworld program instead of init script in initrd to check my development…
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