What is Buildroot?
It is a tool that simplifies and automates the process of building a complete Linux system for an embedded system, using cross-compilation.
Buildroot is a tool in the Infrastructure Build Tools category of a tech stack.
Buildroot is an open source tool with 2.4K GitHub stars and 2.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Buildroot's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Buildroot?
Companies
Developers
23 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Buildroot.
Buildroot's Features
- Embedded system
- Embedded Linux
- Cross-compilation
- Toolchain generator
- Root filesystem
- Linux kernel
- PowerPC
- Board Support Package
Buildroot Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Buildroot?
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.
AWS CloudFormation
You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. You don’t need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work.
Packer
Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.
Pulumi
Pulumi is a cloud development platform that makes creating cloud programs easy and productive. Skip the YAML and just write code. Pulumi is multi-language, multi-cloud and fully extensible in both its engine and ecosystem of packages.
AWS Cloud Development Kit
It is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. It uses the familiarity and expressive power of programming languages for modeling your applications. It provides you with high-level components that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults, so you can build cloud applications without needing to be an expert.
