X-Git-Url: https://git.archive.openwrt.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=6d2b27fb3e8a5660344f4232c78dcd96e9a7cd3f;hb=e96ea88268792c67a95db2ccb6572fd99404ff0e;hp=7db8637a2f92e48500bc10e2fdfbc5aa5a10e903;hpb=47fe395ddca5350dec313100a1edb29eace59f81;p=openwrt.git diff --git a/README b/README index 7db8637a2f..6d2b27fb3e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,18 +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. +You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex, +make, gettext, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. + +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/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. + +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. + -Be happy.. +Sunshine! Your OpenWrt Project - http://www.openwrt.org + http://openwrt.org