7 For building U-Boot you need a GCC compiler for your host platform. If you
8 are not building on the target platform you further need a GCC cross compiler.
13 On Debian based systems the cross compiler packages are named
14 gcc-<architecture>-linux-gnu.
16 You could install GCC and the GCC cross compiler for the ARMv8 architecture with
20 sudo apt-get install gcc gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
22 Depending on the build targets further packages maybe needed
26 sudo apt-get install bc bison build-essential coccinelle \
27 device-tree-compiler dfu-util efitools flex gdisk graphviz imagemagick \
28 liblz4-tool libguestfs-tools libncurses-dev libpython3-dev libsdl2-dev \
29 libssl-dev lz4 lzma lzma-alone openssl python3 python3-coverage \
30 python3-pycryptodome python3-pyelftools python3-pytest \
31 python3-sphinxcontrib.apidoc python3-sphinx-rtd-theme python3-virtualenv \
37 On suse based systems the cross compiler packages are named
38 cross-<architecture>-gcc<version>.
40 You could install GCC and the GCC 10 cross compiler for the ARMv8 architecture
45 sudo zypper install gcc cross-aarch64-gcc10
47 Depending on the build targets further packages maybe needed.
51 zypper install bc bison flex gcc libopenssl-devel libSDL2-devel make \
52 ncurses-devel python3-devel python3-pytest swig
57 For some boards you have to build prerequisite files before you can build
58 U-Boot, e.g. for the some boards you will need to build the ARM Trusted Firmware
59 beforehand. Please, refer to the board specific documentation
60 :doc:`../board/index`.
65 Directory configs/ contains the template configuration files for the maintained
66 boards following the naming scheme::
68 <board name>_defconfig
70 These files have been stripped of default settings. So you cannot use them
71 directly. Instead their name serves as a make target to generate the actual
72 configuration file .config. For instance the configuration template for the
73 Odroid C2 board is called odroid-c2_defconfig. The corresponding .config file
78 make odroid-c2_defconfig
80 You can adjust the configuration using
89 When cross compiling you will have to specify the prefix of the cross-compiler.
90 You can either specify the value of the CROSS_COMPILE variable on the make
91 command line or export it beforehand.
95 CROSS_COMPILE=<compiler-prefix> make
97 Assuming cross compiling on Debian for ARMv8 this would be
101 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make
106 A list of available parameters for the make command can be obtained via
112 You can speed up compilation by parallelization using the -j parameter, e.g.
116 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make -j$(nproc)
118 Further important build parameters are
120 * O=<dir> - generate all output files in directory <dir>, including .config
121 * V=1 - verbose build
126 A list of all make targets can be obtained via
134 * clean - remove most generated files but keep the configuration
135 * mrproper - remove all generated files + config + various backup files
140 The process for installing U-Boot on the target device is device specific.
141 Please, refer to the board specific documentation :doc:`../board/index`.