X-Git-Url: https://git.rohieb.name/openwrt.git/blobdiff_plain/a3abfde50f45560d056610212eb674959999197b..36a8c139f1b390ce4483ca323fa7c571c095d7ca:/README diff --git a/README b/README index c79070cfa..6d2b27fb3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,29 +1,34 @@ -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, +make, gettext, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. -You can use flash.sh for remotely updating your embedded system -via tftp. +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. -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". +Simply running "make" will build your firmware. +It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain, +the kernel and all choosen applications. -Be happy.. +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. + +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. + + +Sunshine! Your OpenWrt Project - http://www.openwrt.org + http://openwrt.org