Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Second Edition

Building BusyBox

BusyBox uses the same Kconfig and Kbuild system as the kernel, so cross compiling is straightforward. You can get the source by cloning the Git archive and checking out the version you want (1_26_2 was the latest at the time of writing), such as follows:

$ git clone git://busybox.net/busybox.git$ cd busybox$ git checkout 1_26_2

You can also download the corresponding TAR file from http://busybox.net/downloads.

Then, configure BusyBox by starting with the default configuration, which enables pretty much all of the features of BusyBox:

$ make distclean$ make defconfig

At this point, you probably want to run make menuconfig to fine tune the configuration. For example, you almost certainly want to set the install path in ...