From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicholas Kinar Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:47:01 -0600 Subject: [Buildroot] Updated status on the compilation of busybox on Mac OS X In-Reply-To: <87vdgt3eh8.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <4B11D0C8.9050901@usask.ca> <87vdgt3eh8.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <4B128965.2090303@usask.ca> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net > > I haven't heard about anyone doing it, and as you see, the posting about > it is almost 3 years old. > > Why would you want to do it in the first place? Doing Linux development > on !Linux systems is imho a recipe for pain. > > Hi Peter-- Thank you so much for your response! I agree that Linux systems are much, much better than generic Unix, and I actually run buildroot for the AVR32 architecture on a very nice Ubuntu box. (No virtualization required.) However, there are a few programs that I would also like to use on Mac OS X, and imho it would be nice to do everything on the same operating system. I also have some hardware which is unfortunately not supported on Linux. I have tried to compile buildroot on Mac OS X. Using some packages from the Fink project (i.e. binutils), I can coax buildroot to partially compile. However, the compilation seems to crash when it encounters uclibc. I know that the Gumstix folks seem to keep a separate build for Mac OS X: http://docwiki.gumstix.org/index.php/Buildroot_on_MacOSX To me, it seemed a bit of a shame to keep a separate build, and it would be nice to perhaps merge this into the main distribution, at least imho to allow for buildroot to compile on all Linux and Unix systems. I suppose that my desire to do compilation on a Unix system is more for philosophical rather than for practical reasons. Nicholas