1 This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution.
3 Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated
4 configuration for the toolchain and firmware.
6 You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex,
7 make, gettext, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers.
9 Run "./scripts/feeds update" to get the latest package definitions
10 defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default respectively
11 and "./scripts/feeds install" to install symlinks into "package/feeds/*".
13 Use "make menuconfig" to configure your image.
15 Simply running "make" will build your firmware.
16 It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain,
17 the kernel and all choosen applications.
19 You can use "scripts/flashing/flash.sh" for remotely updating your embedded
22 The OpenWrt system is documented in docs/. You will need a LaTeX distribution
23 and the tex4ht package to build the documentation. Type "make -C docs/" to build it.
25 To build your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system
26 (case-sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin will not be supported because of
27 the lack of case sensitiveness in the file system.