simonvanderveldt/buildroot repository overview

⁠Buildroot Docker images

This repository contains Docker images for buildroot⁠.

Note that some patches are applied to the buildroot sources. For more details about these patches check the ./patches directory.

⁠How to use

This buildroot image should be used according to the buildroot documentation about "Keeping customizations outside of Buildroot"⁠.

Create a directory containing your buildroot customizations, for example:

+-- board/
|   +-- <company>/
|       +-- <boardname>/
|           +-- linux.config
|
+-- configs/
|   +-- <boardname>_defconfig
|
+-- package/
|   +-- <company>/
|       +-- package1/
|       |    +-- Config.in
|       |    +-- package1.mk
|       +-- package2/
|           +-- Config.in
|           +-- package2.mk
|
+-- Config.in
+-- external.desc
+-- external.mk

To use your configuration with the buildroot image use a volume mount to mount the directory inside the container and set the BR2_EXTERNAL environment variable to the directory name inside the container. For example:

docker run -ti -e BR2_EXTERNAL=/mycustombuildroot -v `pwd`:/mycustombuildroot simonvanderveldt/buildroot:2019.08.3

Now you can issue your regular buildroot commands, like make menuconfig or make <boardname>_defconfig followed by make.