[Buildroot] Buildroot on OSX

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 19/03/15 14:21, 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?

 IIRC there have been some patches to improve the OSX support, but I don't think
it's really been followed up so probably some scripts have bitrotted.

 Also bash is a hard dependency, but that shouldn't be an issue I suppose.


 Regards,
 Arnout



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