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@@ -18,13 +18,23 @@ specifying a path to it, so this should work: Type "make help" for build instructions. -Usually you want something like: +Toybox uses the "make menuconfig; make; make install" idiom same as +the Linux kernel. Usually you want something like: make defconfig - LDFLAGS="--static" CROSS_COMPILE=armv5l- make toybox - PREFIX=/path/to/root/filesystem make install + make + make install -The CROSS_COMPILE argument is optional, and without it builds a version of +Or maybe: + + LDFLAGS="--static" CROSS_COMPILE=armv5l- make defconfig toybox + PREFIX=/path/to/root/filesystem/bin make install_flat + +The file "configure" defines default values for many environment +variables that control the toybox build; if you set a value for any of +these, your value is used instead of the default in that file. + +The CROSS_COMPILE argument above is optional, the default builds a version of toybox to run on the current machine. Cross compiling requires an appropriately prefixed cross compiler toolchain, several example toolchains are available at: @@ -40,6 +50,9 @@ For more about cross compiling, see: http://landley.net/writing/docs/cross-compiling.html http://landley.net/aboriginal/architectures.html +For a more thorough description of the toybox build process, see +http://landley.net/toybox/code.html#building + --- Using toybox The toybox build produces a multicall binary, a "swiss-army-knife" program |