X-Git-Url: https://git.archive.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=43d61601e552ff581a2efa44024e315bd60d0e9e;hp=ee704de653ef1f2068040483dbaa0e542fb62e4f;hb=ed2d03fdee38a559d628e947cb23ef46a04f16f8;hpb=21db875713e9dab2d6560f121b8e856fd182a773 diff --git a/README b/README index ee704de653..43d61601e5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,17 +1,23 @@ This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution -It is a modified uClibc buildroot2. 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, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. + 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. +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