X-Git-Url: https://git.rohieb.name/openwrt.git/blobdiff_plain/0fcca829cc851ac5cd92d00c6a860dee05cace85..1b760ca1fcb6b9d48e4254637989b3dca356c7db:/README diff --git a/README b/README index a1d783538..6d2b27fb3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,21 +1,31 @@ -This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution +This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution. Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated configuration for the toolchain and firmware. -You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex, bison, -make, gettext, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. +You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex, +make, gettext, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. -Simply running 'make' will build your firmware. +Run "./scripts/feeds update" to get the latest package definitions +defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default respectively +and "./scripts/feeds install" to install symlinks into "package/feeds/*". + +Use "make menuconfig" to configure your image. + +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. +You can use "scripts/flashing/flash.sh" for remotely updating your embedded +system via tftp. + +The OpenWrt system is documented in docs/. You will need a LaTeX distribution +and the tex4ht package to build the documentation. Type "make -C docs/" to build it. -The buildroot system is documented in docs/buildroot-documentation.html. +To build your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system +(case-sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin will not be supported because of +the lack of case sensitiveness in the file system. -Building your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux system. Sunshine! Your OpenWrt Project