openwrt-builder-env

Building environment for openwrt

Default it's prepared for virtualbox provider in vagrant. Default machine params - cpus: 2 memory: 2048

Working directory is under /opt/

vagrant@default:~$ ls /opt/
attitude_adjustment

if you want you can update svn repository using svn up under repository directory. Make magic

vagrant@default:/opt/attitude_adjustment$ make package/symlinks
vagrant@default:/opt/attitude_adjustment$ make menuconfig
vagrant@default:/opt/attitude_adjustment$ make -j2

Make effects

vagrant@default:/opt/attitude_adjustment$ cd bin/malta/
vagrant@default:/opt/attitude_adjustment/bin/malta$ ls
md5sums  openwrt-malta-be-vmlinux.elf  packages

Move effects to host system

vagrant@default:/opt/attitude_adjustment/bin/malta$ cp openwrt-malta-be-vmlinux.elf /vagrant/

Testing using QEMU

I chose MIPS Malta CoreLV board (qemu) as the TARGET. I also chose Big Endian as my target platform is a Big Endian MIPS(AR71xx). (step: make menuconfig)

somepathunderhost/openwrt-builder-env$ qemu-system-mips -kernel openwrt-malta-be-vmlinux.elf -nographic -m 64

To get off QEMU use CTRL-A c and using command quit

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Building OpenWRT

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