X-Git-Url: http://git.rohieb.name/openwrt.git/blobdiff_plain/d2b94be30cae972e5bd43f530e7d9fb44c5173d0..e56bc83fee37214fdc7ab917ce25ed582022f25d:/openwrt/README diff --git a/openwrt/README b/openwrt/README index 7d937e76d..a1d783538 100644 --- a/openwrt/README +++ b/openwrt/README @@ -1,29 +1,24 @@ -This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux Distribution -It is a modified uClibc buildroot2. +This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated configuration for the toolchain and firmware. -Simply running 'make' will build your firmware and a tarball -of kernel modules. It will download all sources, build the -cross-compile toolchain, the kernel and all choosen applications. +You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex, bison, +make, gettext, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. + +Simply running 'make' will build your firmware. +It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain, +the kernel and all choosen applications. You can use scripts/flash.sh for remotely updating your embedded system via tftp. +The buildroot system is documented in docs/buildroot-documentation.html. -There are some cleanup targets we would like to explain. -"make clean" will only clean the firmware images and the root -filesystem. "make dirclean" will remove the extracted kernel source -and all exctracted software. (busybox,bridge-utils,..), but will -preserve your toolchain. (compiler,linker,..) -"make distclean" will remove everything, including the toolchain, -all downloaded source code archives and your firmware configuration. -You can cleanup separate directories by using "make application-dirclean" -and rebuild the firmware with "make". +Building your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux system. -Be happy.. +Sunshine! Your OpenWrt Project - http://www.openwrt.org + http://openwrt.org