X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fopenwrt.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=55ca92af65f8f591ff528bf86c4b5133825ebc07;hp=9301fe456e72f9d2affc9516f3ff1c8f8b5521ff;hb=d020ae79ab65a291e53a52a94985b4ab42a30541;hpb=9f4b9328e7341db29fc593c44dd4f5d5988a74c4 diff --git a/README b/README index 9301fe456e..55ca92af65 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,35 +1,34 @@ -This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution. - -Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated -configuration for the toolchain and firmware. + _______ ________ __ + | |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ + | - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| + |_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____| + |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M + ----------------------------------------------------- -You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex, -make, gettext, pkg-config, unzip, 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/. +This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution. -Use "make menuconfig" to configure your image. +To build your own firmware you need a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system (case +sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack +of a case sensitive file system. -Simply running "make" will build your firmware. -It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain, -the kernel and all choosen applications. +You need gcc, binutils, bzip2, flex, python, perl, make, find, grep, diff, +unzip, gawk, getopt, subversion, libz-dev and libc headers installed. -You can use "scripts/flashing/flash.sh" for remotely updating your embedded -system via tftp. +1. Run "./scripts/feeds update -a" to obtain all the latest package definitions +defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -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. +2. Run "./scripts/feeds install -a" to install symlinks for all obtained +packages into package/feeds/ -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. +3. Run "make menuconfig" to select your preferred configuration for the +toolchain, target system & firmware packages. +4. Run "make" to build your firmware. This will download all sources, build +the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the Linux kernel & all +chosen applications for your target system. Sunshine! - Your OpenWrt Project - http://openwrt.org + Your OpenWrt Community + http://www.openwrt.org