X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fopenwrt.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4cbe56343cfa8ef21a50370ee94a3326cd283c69;hp=a92bc769b0ff165aefba125a74a2616f2c8d47e6;hb=81399345fe1baae96d3b7f0511e5e9ec9381ffe0;hpb=48bed14af331eb686aaed8f3b5b342a31cd92352 diff --git a/README b/README index a92bc769b0..4cbe56343c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,23 +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, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. +You need to have installed gcc, binutils, bzip2, flex, python, perl, make, +find, grep, diff, unzip, gawk, getopt, subversion, 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 -to build the documentation. Type make -C docs/ to build the documentation. +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. -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