Step 2 : Compile Bare-Linux

Compile Bare-Linux

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Topics in this section,

• Source code download and compilation

Source code download and compilation

• Install qemu-system-arm package in the build system.

sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm

• Make sure current dir is $HOME

$ cd $HOME

• Download the source code from the below mentioned link.

  • buildroot source code download

• Unzip the downloaded tar file.

$ tar -xvzf buildroot-2020.02.3.tar.gz

• Change the current directory to build as mentioned below.

$ cd buildroot-2020.02.3/

• Now from the buildroot directory add the default configurations of qemu ARM versatile in config file using the following command.

$ pwd
$HOME/buildroot-2020.02.3
$ make qemu_arm_versatile_defconfig

• Run make command from buildroot directory to build the bare-linux

$ make

• Once the build is done, the final target image will be present in the following directory.

buildroot-2024.02.2$ cd output/images/
images$ ls -l
total 11064
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 62914560 Jan 29 20:31 rootfs.ext2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 test test      452 Jan 29 20:19 start-qemu.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 test test     8896 Jan 29 20:19 versatile-pb.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test  3008592 Jan 29 20:19 zImage

What is /.bashrc file?

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