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:
New releases: scratchbox 1.0.27
Support for /run in systems that have it. Downloads from Hathor download page.
New releases: scratchbox 1.0.26
Fix for unnecessary warning message when umounting. Downloads from Hathor download page.
New releases: scratchbox 1.0.25, qemu 0.13.90-0rabbit1
Sync to later upstream version of Qemu, several minor fixes on scratchbox and the toolchain packaging. Downloads from Hathor download page.
2011-03-07 New releases: scratchbox 1.0.24 and python-legacy 1.0.2
Maintenance release. Downloads from Hathor download page.
2011-02-08 New releases: scratchbox 1.0.23 and debian-squeeze 1.0.7
Maintenance release. Downloads from Hathor download page.
2010-11-11 New releases: scratchbox 1.0.22, autotools-legacy 1.0, debian 1.0.12, debian-squeeze 1.0.6, doctools 1.0.15
Autotools separated to their own devkit, you need to select autotools-legacy for your target to be able to use them. Downloads from Hathor download page.
2010-06-18 New releases: scratchbox 1.0.19, mtd 1.0.3 and git 1.0.2
Includes a fix for copying of device tools, terminfo issues and some other minor fixes. Downloads from Hathor download page.
2010-06-08 Scratchbox Hathor R1
New release in of the stable branch Scratchbox. Compatible with old packages of the same branch. Downloads from Hathor download page.
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