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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• ct-ng

Projektgeschichte

The project traces its lineage to Dan Kegel's original crosstool scripts, patch repository, and prepared configuration files. Yann E. Morin later reorganized that work, added uClibc and menu-driven configuration support, and released the new implementation as crosstool-NG, short for crosstool Next Generation.

The official documentation says Yann Morin became busy with Buildroot and other projects in late 2014, after which Bryan Hundven became the new maintainer. The GitHub README also records older Mercurial repositories as read-only and points current development to GitHub.

Adoptionsgeschichte

crosstool-NG grew around embedded Linux and cross-compilation communities, where prebuilt toolchains are often either too generic, too old, or mismatched to a target. Its documentation keeps a direct connection to the crossgcc mailing list and to projects such as Buildroot, ptxdist, and OpenEmbedded.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users configure crosstool-NG through a Linux-kernel-style menuconfig flow, producing a `.config` file that controls target architecture, component versions, installation prefix, samples, and options. Typical workflows start from a sample tuple, run `ct-ng menuconfig`, and then build a native, cross, cross-native, or Canadian Cross toolchain.

Because `ct-ng` is implemented as a make script, the project is familiar to source-based packaging users: it downloads and builds upstream components, applies version-specific patches, and installs an isolated toolchain such as under `/opt/x-tools/${CT_TARGET}`.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

crosstool-NG matters in package history because it turns a compiler stack into a reproducible configurable artifact. It sits between full root filesystem builders and ad hoc compiler builds: unlike Buildroot or OpenEmbedded, its stated target is only the toolchain, leaving the resulting compiler usable by other build systems and package workflows.

Zeitleiste

• 2000s: Dan Kegel's crosstool provides the precursor scripts and patches
• 2000s: Yann E. Morin releases crosstool-NG with uClibc and menu-driven configuration support
• 2014: Bryan Hundven becomes maintainer
• 2025: crosstool-ng 1.28.0 release

Related projects

• The documentation compares crosstool-NG with Buildroot, ptxdist, and OpenEmbedded, and credits the original crosstool project as its direct ancestor.

Quellen

• https://crosstool-ng.github.io/docs/introduction/
• https://crosstool-ng.github.io/docs/configuration/
• https://crosstool-ng.github.io/docs/toolchain-types/
• https://crosstool-ng.github.io/docs/credits/
• https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng#readme
• https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/releases
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/crosstool-ng