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@@ -1,20 +1,56 @@ -To build and install the uClibc development environment, -1) cp ./extra/Configs/Config.<your arch> ./Config -2) Edit ./Config for your setup. -3) make -4) make install_dev (as root if necessary, depending on your Config) +* Configuration: + cp ./extra/Configs/Config.<target arch> .Config -To install the runtime environment, - make install_target (again, as root if necessary) +Then edit ./Config for your setup. In particular, modify +CROSS and KERNEL_SOURCE as necessary. You may also want +to modify PREFIX if you want to install the development +environment to /usr/local/ or elsewhere. By default, the +development environment is installed into /usr and +/usr/<arch>-linux-uclibc/. + + +* Building: + + make + + +* Installing the development environment: + +(As root, if necessary,) + + make install + +This will install the header files, libraries, and the gcc +wrapper into the directories defined in Config. + +If you are targetting the same architecture as the host machine, +you may want to add a link from /lib/ld-uclibc.0 to the location +where ld-uclibc.0 was installed. This allows you to run binaries +compiled against uClibc without contaminating /lib too much. + + +* Installing the target runtime environment: + +(As root, if necessary,) + + make TARGET_PREFIX=`pwd`/_install install_target + +This installs only the files that are necessary to run binaries +compiled against uClibc. Hint: You really don't want to install +the target runtime environment on the host machine. + + +* Using uClibc: To compile programs with uClibc, - export PATH={uClibc DEVEL_PREFIX/ROOT_DIR}/bin:$PATH + export PATH={uClibc DEVEL_PREFIX}/bin:$PATH and then just ./configure and make as usual. Note: You may also want to look at extra/gcc-uclibc/gcc-uclibc.c for additional information concerning what options and environment variables the gcc wrapper handles. + |