From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 23:04:04 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot on OSX In-Reply-To: <20150320180814.GH21001@waldemar-brodkorb.de> (Waldemar Brodkorb's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:08:22 +0100") References: <20150320180814.GH21001@waldemar-brodkorb.de> Message-ID: <87a8z6husr.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Waldemar" == Waldemar Brodkorb writes: 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? > Once I tried to do this, but there wasn't much interest to carry > needed patches in buildroot. It is hard to get these Darwin-to-Linux > cross-compile patches into upstream projects. > Recently I discussed some of the patches I am using in OpenADK with > a friend and we will try to reduce them and do it in a better way, > which might even be usable for buildroot. In general, using anything else than a Linux system to build Linux systems is bound to cause extra issues. To my knowledge, nobody uses Buildroot with a !Linux host on any regular schedule. I don't mind simple fixes, but users on !Linux should not expect full functionality, and I am not interested in carrying any big / feature patches for it. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard