Scratchbox 2
Target Distribution Instructions
Introduction
Scratchbox 2 is a cross-compilation engine, it can be used to create a highly flexible SDK.
SB2 is totally distribution neutral. I develop it currently on Debian/sid. It's known to work at least on Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo and Fedora. Both x86 and amd64 architectures are supported. PPC host support is possible, but not planned. Mac OS X is a potential platform as well, if you're interested in hacking on that, please contact lle at rahina dot org.
For target systems you can do anything that Qemu or sbrsh supports.
News
- 2009-04-01 2.0 Released! It's good. It's new. Go get it.
- 2009-02-20 1.99.0.31 This could be considered as 2.0-rc1, only bugfixes are between this and 2.0.
- 2008-12-07 1.99.0.28 Probably the last release this year.
- 2008-09-29 1.99.0.26 Another development snapshot, getting closer to that mythical 2.0!
- 2008-06-20 1.99.0.25 Development snapshot, this is what the Maemo SDK+ is using at the moment. Not tested by anyone else, but does work quite well for them. Big thanks to Lauri Aarnio for his hard work!
- 2008-02-12 1.99.0.23 Various bugfixes and traceability improvements.
License
Scratchbox 2 is distributed under LGPL version 2.1, portions are under GPL version 2. Some minor stuff is under MIT style license.
Source Releases
- Version control: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/sbox2
Tarballs:
2009-04-01 sbox2-2.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: 21d3378868980c38d63dcfcb79e0e36d
Installation
For holistic instructions for a particular target distribution, see the links at the top of this page.
NEVER USE SB2 AS ROOT
Because SB2 makes potentially highly confusing things with paths, you just cannot ever be 100% sure that your real system files are not modified in ways that may be impossible to recover from if you're using it as root.
Read the README for installation instructions.
NOTE! If you have problems compiling SB2, please check that your make is new enough, GNU make 3.81 or newer is recommended.
Contact
Mailing lists:
There's also #scratchbox IRC channel on freenode.
Bugs
Bugs can be reported using bugzilla.
Toolchains
For targeting ARM chips you should probably use CodeSourcery's toolchain.
TODO
Major things missing are:
CPU Transparency Options
Currently SB2 supports Qemu and sbrsh. You need to get a post 2007-06-18 CVS version of Qemu with -drop-ld-preload support.