Ubuntu/Debian installation prerequisites

Mandatory packages

• you can use the following commands (one at a time) to get them (assuming your userid is allowed to use sudo (execution of commands as root)):

 sudo apt-get install -y build-essential gcc g++ autoconf automake libtool bison flex gettext
 sudo apt-get install -y patch subversion texinfo wget git-core
 sudo apt-get install -y libncurses5 libncurses5-dev
 sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev liblzo2-2 liblzo2-dev
 sudo apt-get install -y libacl1 libacl1-dev gawk cvs curl lzma
 sudo apt-get install -y uuid-dev mercurial unzip
 sudo apt-get install -y libftdi-dev
 sudo apt-get install -y bc
 
 # for Linaro external toolchain of APF6 on 64bits Host:
 sudo apt-get install -y lib32stdc++6 lib32z1
 
 # to use recover tool if board is bricked:
 sudo apt-get install -y python-serial python-usb libusb-1.0-0-dev

• you will need bash as system interpreter and NOT dash:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash      (choose No)

Localization

• if your distribution is localized in a language different of English, you will need to install "en_US" locale in order to compile the toolchain (by default our toolchain (uClibc) is configured to only support English). If not, you will get compilation errors like this one:

 ...
 extra/locale/locale_mmap.h:46: error: '__LOCALE_DATA_WCctype_II_LEN' undeclared here (not in a function)
 ...

To solve this, install en_US.UTF-8 locale with the following:

 $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

64 bits Host

• On Debian/Jessie, these packages seems to be required (on 64 bits Host):

sudo apt-get install libx32stdc++6 libx32stdc++-4.9-dev lib64stdc++6

Optional packages

Not mandatory but useful to add for compiling some Buildroot packages:

 sudo apt-get -y install libglib2.0-dev 
 # for fbtest
 sudo apt-get -y install libnetpbm10-dev
 # for Matchbox
 sudo apt-get -y install python-xcbgen
 # for mesa
 sudo apt-get -y install xutils-dev
 # for imx_usb
 sudo apt-get -y install pkg-config

Java devt

Ubuntu To compile java jamvm and gnu-classpath: sudo apt-get -y install gcj-jdk

Debian To compile java jamvm and gnu-classpath: sudo apt-get -y install java-gcj-compat-dev default-jdk