X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fsvn-archive%2Farchive.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=6d2b27fb3e8a5660344f4232c78dcd96e9a7cd3f;hp=a92bc769b0ff165aefba125a74a2616f2c8d47e6;hb=4ed102dc5c8d5e50e4200cc66a5561caf1326946;hpb=b5fc884ca9733d90f5dc497d30b1c0f2a15e8e44 diff --git a/README b/README index a92bc769b0..6d2b27fb3e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,23 +1,31 @@ -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, +You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex, make, gettext, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers. -Simply running 'make' will build your firmware. +Run "./scripts/feeds update" to get the latest package definitions +defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default respectively +and "./scripts/feeds install" to install symlinks 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