From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:11:18 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot on OSX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <550B3B76.6090504@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F