X-Git-Url: https://git.archive.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=32e698d34e63780045a6889c3e4055ec98d02d03;hp=84ac3879f3a2103bacab51887bc4d5f986087acd;hb=5234db2cfcaeadd37b0bda78a9941328bac683b5;hpb=dce676361031a92d04171f4d49d91f70c96313a8 diff --git a/README b/README index 84ac3879f3..32e698d34e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,21 +1,32 @@ -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. -You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex, bison, -make,gettext and libc headers. +You need to have installed gcc, binutils, bzip2, flex, python, perl +make, find, grep, diff, unzip, gawk, getopt, libz-dev and libc headers. -Simply running 'make' will build your firmware. +Run "./scripts/feeds update -a" to get all the latest package definitions +defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default respectively +and "./scripts/feeds install -a" to install symlinks of all of them 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. -The buildroot system is documented in docs/buildroot-documentation.html. +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 system. Sunshine! Your OpenWrt Project