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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 | 4828e8ff2315da37b2c05ed8598587c2e5684f1f (patch) | |
tree | c3dd189e266160dceea3ddec1f6fe62419b18e06 | |
parent | 408b12ff760df0f103e36ba4d3dbffcba99778e9 (diff) | |
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trying to make README file a bit more helpful
SVN-Revision: 29837
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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 |