Scratchbox

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Scratchbox is a cross compilation toolkit designed to make embedded Linux application development easier. It also provides a full set of tools to integrate and cross compile an entire Linux distribution.

The project has been initially developed by Movial and sponsored by Nokia. It is licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL)

Scratchbox already operates in more than just Maemo development platform (Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, N800), for which it has been originally built. The toolkit supports ARM architecture and x86, targets like PowerPC and MIPS architecture works under experimental level. Primarily built for Debian support, Scratchbox is successfuly moving towards other distributions.

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