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author | Mirko Vogt <mirko@openwrt.org> | 2012-01-21 01:15:24 +0000 |
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committer | Mirko Vogt <mirko@openwrt.org> | 2012-01-21 01:15:24 +0000 |
commit | b1db32e8dd58c747fcf0632f3241a63a82b4c470 (patch) | |
tree | f4db9f1f7e33445728f25b424f6cfda91c81334d /README | |
parent | 162666ffcc427b315ebd5cf76609fea5f30e1b4e (diff) | |
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trying to make README file a bit more helpful
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@29837 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -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. @@ -6,18 +6,26 @@ 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. +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/flashing/flash.sh for remotely updating your embedded +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. +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. -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. Sunshine! Your OpenWrt Project |