Article | REF: H1570 V2

Embedded Linux

Author: Pierre FICHEUX

Publication date: August 10, 2019, Review date: January 5, 2021

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5. Distribution examples

Producing an embedded Linux distribution requires a development environment, also known as a host. In general, we use a PC/x86 running Linux, but there are also tools that run on Windows, although these are less common. The choice of Linux distribution on the host is of little importance, and we can use most of the distributions already mentioned (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc.).

5.1 Cross-compilation

The compiler is the software developer's main tool. In the case of an embedded distribution, a cross-compiler is most often used to produce code on the development host that can be executed on the target system. As with native development on x86, the compiler is an adapted version of GCC, the GNU project's compiler.

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