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  host$ '''scp busybox root@beagle:.'''
 
  host$ '''scp busybox root@beagle:.'''
 
  beagle$ '''busybox'''
 
  beagle$ '''busybox'''
  beagle$ '''busybox ls'''
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  beagle$ '''./busybox'''
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beagle$ '''./busybox ls'''
  
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What's the difference between running '''busybox''' and '''./busybox'''?
 
Try some other commands...
 
Try some other commands...
  
== Playing with BusyBox ==
 
 
=== shrinking ===
 
 
How big is the '''busybox''' file?  The default configuration for busybox has it many things (some 400).  Reconfigure it to do just the commands you use.  How big is it now? How big is it if you just have ''ls''? How much bigger is it when you add httpd?  Try your own combinations.  Report your findings in your status report.
 
 
=== Static Linking ===
 
 
Some embedded systems are so small they don't have shared libraries.  Recompile busybox to be statically linked. (Hint: look in configuration) How big it is?  Does it still work?
 
 
=== Running a Web Server ===
 
 
Configure busybox to be a web server. Look under '''Networking Utilites''', select '''httpd'''.  How much more space does it take?
 
 
beagle$ '''busybox httpd'''
 
 
Yup, you are now running a web server.  Your task is to figure out where to put the web pages it is serving.  If you get something interesting going, post your Beagle's address here. Hint: find httpd.c.
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 11:02, 1 November 2013

thumb‎ Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder


Getting BusyBox

downloading

Get the busybox sources from the busybox site

host$ git clone git://busybox.net/busybox.git
host$ cd busybox

compiling

host$ source ~/crossCompileEnv.sh
host$ make help
host$ make defconfig
host$ make -j9       # use -jX for X-1 cores

configuring

You can now configure BusyBox (In the event that none of the graphical tools work you can use "make config" to use the text based tool as a method of last resort). First be sure you have the graphics libraries loaded.

host$ sudo apt-get install libglade2-dev
host$ make gconfig

After saving the configuration changes to update the .config file, it is a simple matter of running make.

host$ make -j4

My make took about 1.5 minutes to compile (25 seconds with make -j8!).

installing

Copy it to your Beagle and test it out. Just typing busybox will tell you what commands it knows. Try some of them.

host$ scp busybox root@beagle:.
beagle$ busybox
beagle$ ./busybox
beagle$ ./busybox ls

What's the difference between running busybox and ./busybox? Try some other commands...




thumb‎ Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder