| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ | |
| .. sectionauthor:: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> | |
| Host tools | |
| ========== | |
| 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. | |
| 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:: | |
| $ make tools-only_defconfig | |
| $ make tools-only NO_SDL=1 |