Scratchbox

Welcome to the scratchbox.org website, the home of the cross-compilation toolkit project.

Scratchbox is a cross-compilation toolkit designed to make embedded Linux application development easier. It also provides a full set of tools to integrate and cross-compile an entire Linux distribution. To find out what it can do, take a look at some of the documentation.

Scratchbox is licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL).

A brief summary of features:

• Scratchbox is used by Maemo development platform (Nokia 770). But it is not restricted to that use.

• Supports ARM and x86 targets (PowerPC, MIPS and CRIS targets are experimental)

• Especially Debian is supported, but Scratchbox has also been used to cross-compile eg. Slackware for ARM.

• Provides glibc and uClibc as C-library choices

• Uses either QEMU or a real target hardware to execute cross-compiled binaries (extremely useful when cross-compiling software which uses autoconf & co.)

News:

2009-12-14 New release: debian-squeeze 1.0

New devkit containing a skeleton set of debian tools for debian squeeze. Downloads from Apophis download page.

2009-08-25 New releases: scratchbox 1.0.16

Fixes a configuration issue with customized targets. Downloads from Apophis download page.

2009-08-05 New releases: scratchbox 1.0.15

Fixes an issue with copying of host files and upgrades gettext to a less ancient version. Downloads from Apophis download page.

2009-08-03 New releases: apt-https 1.0.9

Includes a fix for the extra long dependency information. Downloads from Apophis download page.

2009-06-02 New releases: doctools 1.0.13

Includes a fix for the tetex/fmtutil issue with five year old source files. Downloads from Apophis download page.

2009-06-01 New releases: doctools 1.0.12, cs2007q3-glibc2.5-* 1.0.12-*

Minor upgrades to doctools devkit, recompiled cs2007q3-glibc2.5-* to include additional profiling patch for arm-linux-gnueabi. Downloads from Apophis download page.

2009-04-29 New release: apt-https devkit 1.0.7

Yet more fixes for the new apt, upgrading from 1.0.5 and/or 1.0.6 is strongly recommended. Downloads from Apophis download page.

2009-04-22 New release: apt-https devkit 1.0.6

Apt does not want to write log anymore by default. Fixes issue with returning an error code when target has no log directory. Downloads from Apophis download page.