Buildroot
Making Embedded Linux Easy

Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.

Can handle everything

Cross-compilation toolchain, root filesystem generation, kernel image compilation and bootloader compilation.

Is very easy

Thanks to its kernel-like menuconfig, gconfig and xconfig configuration interfaces, building a basic system with Buildroot is easy and typically takes 15-30 minutes.

Supports several thousand packages

X.org stack, Gtk3, Qt 5, GStreamer, Webkit, Kodi, a large number of network-related and system-related utilities are supported.


Buildroot is for Everyone.

Has a simple structure that makes it easy to understand and extend. It relies only on the well-known Makefile language.

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Buildroot is an open source project: many developers contribute to it daily.