Scratchbox

Scratchbox is a platform for cross-compiling. Using scratchbox, one can figure out the choices one has to make and set up the environment once and build 100 apps for the target platform in this virtual environment. The traditional approach to cross-compiling, used by gcc for example ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compile), is to use configuration options for building and then choose which to use for each app. So one has to make these choices 100 times to build 100 apps, instead of once.

There is an older corpus of information, which seems old but accurate, at http://www.scratchbox.org/. It is unclear how to get updated information into those pages, so content could be moved to here and edited as is needed.

For installation instructions, go to: ScratchboxInstallation

For help on configuring a target in your scratchbox, go to ScratchboxTargetConfiguration.

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