From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Waldemar Brodkorb Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:08:22 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot on OSX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20150320180814.GH21001@waldemar-brodkorb.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Frank, Frank Hunleth wrote, > Hi, > > I was just asked if it was possible to use Buildroot natively on a > Mac. I recommended that he just build in a Linux VM. However, after > playing around at command line and learning about Homebrew, it looked > like it may not be too far off especially since Buildroot builds so > much itself. Ignoring external toolchains which I would assume > wouldn't work, has anyone done this? Once I tried to do this, but there wasn't much interest to carry needed patches in buildroot. It is hard to get these Darwin-to-Linux cross-compile patches into upstream projects. Recently I discussed some of the patches I am using in OpenADK with a friend and we will try to reduce them and do it in a better way, which might even be usable for buildroot. So for now, you could play with OpenADK, which I use to cross-compile Linux Embedded stuff on my Mac with Homebrew. best regards Waldemar