[Buildroot] custom application

[Buildroot] custom application

[Naitik Amin]

Hi there,

I recently used buildroot to setup my build environment, to generate 
uboot, kernel and rootfs. It has been very helpful. 

Now I am at a point, where I would like to add my custom application. Does 

the framework allow to create skeletals for applications ? Which gets 
compiled and be made part of rootfs by doing top level make.

Thanks,

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[Buildroot] custom application

[Naitik Amin]

Hi there,

I recently used buildroot to setup my build environment, to generate 
uboot, kernel and rootfs. It has been very helpful. 

Now I am at a point, where I would like to add my custom application. Does 

the framework allow to create skeletals for applications ? Which gets 
compiled and be made part of rootfs by doing top level make.

Thanks,

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[Buildroot] custom application

[Zoltan Gyarmati]

On 09/26/2013 09:16 PM, Naitik Amin wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I recently used buildroot to setup my build environment, to generate
> uboot, kernel and rootfs. It has been very helpful.
>
> Now I am at a point, where I would like to add my custom application.
> Does the framework allow to create skeletals for applications ? Which
> gets compiled and be made part of rootfs by doing top level make.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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Hi,

check out this chapter from the docs:
http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#adding-packages
It's make your life easier if you use autotools / cmake or some other
Makefile generator for your application, but also works with
hand-written Makefiles as well. For the development phase personally i
use the local site method to get the source for building, but you also
can go on and wire it directly to your source code repo.
Good luck,

-- 
br, 
Zoltan Gyarmati
mail: mr.zoltan.gyarmati at gmail.com
freenode nick: zgyarmati

[Buildroot] custom application

[Luca Ceresoli]

Naitik Amin wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I recently used buildroot to setup my build environment, to generate 
> uboot, kernel and rootfs. It has been very helpful.
>
> Now I am at a point, where I would like to add my custom application. 
> Does the framework allow to create skeletals for applications ? Which 
> gets compiled and be made part of rootfs by doing top level make.

Of course you can!
The Buildroot manual has a detail explanation of how you can do it.
See section 6.2, "Adding new packages to Buildroot"
(http://buildroot.net/downloads/manual/manual.html#adding-packages).

Luca