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Buildroot 2011.02 released, with many interesting updates and commercial support!

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Thomas Petazzoni

As usual, the latest Buildroot version has been released just in time on the last day of the month: Buildroot 2011.02 is available for download! This release of the increasingly popular embedded Linux build system provides new interesting features and … Continue reading →

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Buildroot 2010.11 release and roadmap

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Thomas Petazzoni

The 2010.11 release of Buildroot has been published on November, 30th. Buildroot is a tool that eases the process of building an embedded Linux system: cross-compiling toolchain, root filesystem with dozens or hundreds of libraries and applications, bootloader and kernel. … Continue reading →

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Buildroot 2010.08 released!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Thomas Petazzoni

On the last day of August, just in time, the 2010.08 version of Buildroot has been released. For the record, Buildroot is an easy-to-use embedded Linux build system: it can build your toolchain, your root filesystem with all its components … Continue reading →

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Crosstool-NG 1.5.0 released, with new features!

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Thomas Petazzoni

Crosstool-NG, the successor of Crosstool, is a tool that automates the complicated process of building a cross-compilation toolchain. It provides a nice menuconfig interface to fine tune the configuration of the toolchain, before creating the toolchain automatically by retrieving, extracting, … Continue reading →

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Buildroot gains better support for external toolchains

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Thomas Petazzoni

Buildroot is a tool that I’ve already covered in a previous blog post. To me, its main purpose is to build the root filesystem for an embedded Linux system, with all the necessary applications and libraries. It automates the tedious … Continue reading →

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