| Rob Landley | 09e8bde | 2012-02-04 12:20:39 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Toybox: all-in-one Linux command line. |
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| 3 | --- Building Toybox |
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| 5 | Type "make help" for build instructions. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Mostly you want: |
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| 9 | CFLAGS="--static" CROSS_COMPILE=armv5l- make defconfig toybox install |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Or "make menuconfig", which produces the same sort of .config file as the |
| 12 | Linux kernel. |
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| 14 | --- Using toybox |
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| 16 | The build produces a "swiss-army-knife" style multifunction binary, which acts |
| 17 | differently depending on the name it was called as (cp, mv, cat...), and |
| 18 | installs symlinks under each command name to populate $PATH. |
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| 20 | The "toybox" command itself uses its first argument as the command name to run |
| 21 | (ala "toybox ls -l"). With no arguments, it lists available commands. (This |
| 22 | allows you to use the commands even without the symlinks.) |
| 23 | |
| 24 | The "help" command provides information about each command (ala "help cat"). |
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| 26 | The toybox web page is at "http://landley.net/toybox". |
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| 28 | Have fun, |
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| 30 | Rob |