Scratchbox2
Scratchbox 2 (often abbreviated to "sb2" or "sbox2") is a cross-compilation toolkit designed to make embedded Linux application development easier. It also provides a full set of tools to integrate and cross-compile an entire Linux distribution. Predecessor Scratchbox was a Linux embedded application development toolkit which also provided cross compilation support for Linux distributions. The project was initially developed by Movial and was sponsored by Nokia. It was licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Scratchbox was designed for the Maemo development platform (Nokia 770, N800, N810 Internet Tablets and Nokia N900 and N9 phones) and supported ARM architecture and x86. Targets like PowerPC and MIPS architecture worked at experimental level. Functional description In the Linux world, when building software, many parameters are auto-detected on the host system (like installed libraries and system configuration), for example through Autotools' ./conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |