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.