Digging up my old "make standalone" stuff from a year ago:

http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-September/015766.html

I renamed it "individual" to not confuse it with the standalone shell.  (Which
it isn't compatible with for obvious reasons.)  Configure busybox (I did
make defconfig), then run scripts/individual and it'll build an individual
version of each applet in the "build" subdirectory.

Currently it builds 146 and fails to build 104 applets out of "make defconfig".
I haven't taught it about multi-file applets yet (like tar), or the ones where
two applets get built from the same source (for example, zcat is a trivial
variant of gunzip so there is no zcat.c).  But here's a start.

scripts/individual

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Make our prerequisites.
+
+make busybox.links include/bb_config.h
+
+# Adding "libbb/libbb.a" to the previous line doesn't work, nor does going
+# "make libbb.a" in the libb directory.  The busybox makefile has layers and
+# layers of overcomplicated brokenness...
+
+cd libbb
+make
+cd ..
+
+# Here are a few that build in a standard way.  Others are easy to get to
+# build, for example miscutils/dc needs -lm and most of loginutils/* needs
+# -lcrypt...
+
+rm -rf build
+mkdir build
+for APPLET in `sed 's .*/  ' busybox.links`
+do
+  j=`find . -name "$APPLET.c"`
+  if [ -z "$j" ]
+  then
+    echo no file for $APPLET
+  else
+    echo "Building $APPLET..."
+    gcc -Os -o build/$APPLET applets/individual.c $j libbb/libbb.a -Iinclude -DAPPLET_main=${APPLET}_main -DAPPLET_full_usage=${APPLET}_full_usage
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ];
+    then
+      echo "Failed."
+    fi
+  fi
+done
+
+strip build/*