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make menuconfig is one of five similar tools that can assist a user in configuring the Linux kernel before building, a necessary step needed to compile the source code. make menuconfig , with a menu-driven user interface, allows the user to choose which features and modules to compile. It is normally invoked using the command make menuconfig ; menuconfig is a target in the Linux Makefile.
make menuconfig is one of five similar tools that can assist a user in configuring the Linux kernel before building, a necessary step needed to compile the source code. make menuconfig , with a menu-driven user interface, allows the user to choose which features and modules to compile. It is normally invoked using the command make menuconfig ; menuconfig is a target in the Linux Makefile. ==Overview== make menuconfig was not in the first version of Linux. Prior to 2.5.45, the predecessor tool used Configuration Menu Language (CML) and was a question-and-answer-based utility ( make config , make oldconfig ). Variations of the tool for Linux configuration include: make xconfig , which requires Qt make gconfig , which uses GTK+ make nconfig , which is similar to make menuconfig . All these tools use the Kconfig language internally. Kconfig is also used in other projects, such as Das U-Boot, a bootloader for embedded devices, Buildroot, a tool for generating embedded Linux systems, and BusyBox, a single-executable shell utility toolbox for embedded systems. make menuconfig is generally more user-friendly compared to the question-and-answer-based configuration tool make config , and has a basic search system. If the user is satisfied with a previous .config file, using make oldconfig uses this previous file to answer all questions that it can, only interactively presenting the new features. ==Dependencies== To use make menuconfig , Linux source is a requirement, a make tool, a C compiler, and the ncurses library. ==See also== GNU Compiler Collection TUI ==References== The make menuconfig tool itself. Linux From Scratch How to Build a Minimal Linux System Creating custom kernels with Debian's kernel-package system Cross compiling Linux on IBM System z How to roll your own Linux Building A Kernel The Traditional Way The Linux Kernel HOWTO Kconfig language ==External links== The Linux Kernel Archives
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