X-Git-Url: https://git.rohieb.name/openwrt.git/blobdiff_plain/7d51245340742956d612c8a569f904d3a946135f..b2a2f4ac351fdba38c378fc6b5f303007ab0ad4f:/README?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/README b/README index d718e5971..2face562c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,29 +1,26 @@ -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, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. -You can use flash.sh for remotely updating your embedded system +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 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. -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, BSD or MacOSX system. +Cygwin will not be supported because of the lack of case sensitiveness. -Be happy.. - Your OpenWRT Project - http://www.openwrt.org +Sunshine! + Your OpenWrt Project + http://openwrt.org