X-Git-Url: https://git.rohieb.name/openwrt.git/blobdiff_plain/47fe395ddca5350dec313100a1edb29eace59f81..f6d755eda4c0e0a068aa8de2504e16ab81a20bc0:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 7db8637a2..2975e5ce6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,18 +1,26 @@ This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution -It is a modified uClibc buildroot2. Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated configuration for the toolchain and firmware. +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. 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. + +Building your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system. +Cygwin will not be supported because of the lack of case sensitiveness. -Be happy.. +Sunshine! Your OpenWrt Project - http://www.openwrt.org + http://openwrt.org