| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ |
| .. sectionauthor:: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> |
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| Host tools |
| ========== |
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| Building tools for Linux |
| ------------------------ |
| |
| To allow distributions to distribute all possible tools in a generic way, |
| avoiding the need of specific tools building for each machine, a tools only |
| defconfig file is provided. |
| |
| Using this, we can build the tools by doing:: |
| |
| $ make tools-only_defconfig |
| $ make tools-only |
| |
| Building tools for Windows |
| -------------------------- |
| If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in the tools directory |
| you can use MSYS2, a software distro and building platform for Windows. |
| |
| Download the MSYS2 installer from https://www.msys2.org. Make sure you have |
| installed all required packages below in order to build these host tools:: |
| |
| * gcc (9.1.0) |
| * make (4.2.1) |
| * bison (3.4.2) |
| * diffutils (3.7) |
| * openssl-devel (1.1.1.d) |
| |
| Note the version numbers in these parentheses above are the package versions |
| at the time being when writing this document. The MSYS2 installer tested is |
| http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20190524.exe. |
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| There are 3 MSYS subsystems installed: MSYS2, MinGW32 and MinGW64. Each |
| subsystem provides an environment to build Windows applications. The MSYS2 |
| environment is for building POSIX compliant software on Windows using an |
| emulation layer. The MinGW32/64 subsystems are for building native Windows |
| applications using a linux toolchain (gcc, bash, etc), targeting respectively |
| 32 and 64 bit Windows. |
| |
| Launch the MSYS2 shell of the MSYS2 environment, and do the following:: |
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| $ make tools-only_defconfig |
| $ make tools-only |
