X-Git-Url: https://git.archive.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4cbe56343cfa8ef21a50370ee94a3326cd283c69;hp=ee704de653ef1f2068040483dbaa0e542fb62e4f;hb=104549a1b6cb24f16942a1f448e1a3bc3624bab7;hpb=21db875713e9dab2d6560f121b8e856fd182a773 diff --git a/README b/README index ee704de653..4cbe56343c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,17 +1,32 @@ -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, bzip2, flex, python, perl, make, +find, grep, diff, unzip, gawk, getopt, subversion, libz-dev and libc headers. + +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. + +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. -The buildroot system is documented in docs/buildroot-documentation.html. Sunshine! Your OpenWrt Project