Mac support?

[cweagans]

Is this setup known to work on a mac? I know qemu and the like are all available, but not sure if I should go down that route if it's a nonstarter out of the gate.

If it's not already specifically supported, would you be interested in a PR that adds support for kernel development from a Mac host? If it's outside the scope of this project, I totally understand :)

[cirosantilli]

Cameron,

I've never tested on a Mac, the main question is if Buildroot will work on a Mac. I could not find a clear answer to that after quick Googling:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6396165/best-way-to-build-cross-toolchains-on-mac-os-x
• https://github.com/generia/buildroot-osx

Or you could also try to bring up some other image generation method, e.g. some kind of Ubuntu VM image (e.g. cloud image https://serverfault.com/questions/920117/how-do-i-set-a-password-on-an-ubuntu-cloud-image/940686#940686 or download a Docker image). I tried this a little bit, but got lazy, but I'm confident it would work, although some functionalities would need to be reimplemented for it, but at least you would get Linux boot on QEMU (see also commented out === Ubuntu guest setup section of the README on README source).

If you manage to get it working, a pull request is super welcome, the more supported hosts the better.