richfelker/musl-cross-make

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A makefile-based build system for producing musl libc-targeting GCC cross compilers. It automates downloading, patching, and building GCC, binutils, and musl into relocatable cross toolchains for many architectures.

Use cases

• build a cross compiler for arm or aarch64 linux musl targets
• compile embedded linux software against musl libc
• create relocatable gcc toolchains without hardcoded paths
• build cross compilers for riscv64 or mips targets
• set up a musl-based toolchain for static linking

When to choose

• you need musl-targeting cross compilers for embedded or minimal Linux systems
• you want a simple make-driven toolchain build without heavy frameworks like crosstool-ng
• you need multiple target architectures from one source tree

When to avoid

• you need a glibc-targeting toolchain
• you want prebuilt binaries rather than building from source
• you need Clang/LLVM instead of GCC

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

build-tool compiler developer-tools developer-tools compilers embedded-systems operating-systems cli cross-platform musl cross-compiler gcc binutils toolchain makefile embedded-linux linux macos

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