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--- doc:howto:buildroot.exigence [2012/10/08 22:34]
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 ====== OpenWrt Buildroot – Installation ======
-[[about:toolchain|OpenWrt Buildroot]] is the preferred [[wp>toolchain]] to build OpenWrt. It is recommended that you use a [[wp>Linux distribution|GNU/Linux Distribution]], either a standalone installation or one running in a virtual environment ([[wp>VMware]] or [[wp>Qemu]]).
+[[about:toolchain|OpenWrt Buildroot]] is the preferred [[wp>toolchain]] to build OpenWrt. It is recommended that you use a [[wp>Linux distribution|GNU/Linux Distribution]] (Debian is recommended), either a standalone installation or one running in a virtual environment ([[wp>VMware]] or [[wp>Qemu]]).
+  * Suse 12.3 uses the rpm package manager. //Please note that Suse 12.3 may work to compile, but has not been tested by OpenWRT Community//
-[[wp>Cygwin]] will probably not work correctly, and while it is possible to build OpenWrt images on a [[wp>Comparison of BSD operating systems|~BSD]] or on MacOSX system, success is not guaranteed. Feel free to try and then report back with your results. Don't forget to read [[#Troubleshooting]].
+[[wp>Cygwin]] will probably not work correctly, and while it is possible to build OpenWrt images on a [[wp>Comparison of BSD operating systems|~BSD]] or on MacOS X system, success is not guaranteed. Feel free to try and then report back with your results. Don't forget to read [[#Troubleshooting]]. [[https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=34676|Build OpenWrt on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion]]
 ===== Prerequisites =====
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 | {{:meta:icons:tango:48px-emblem-important.svg.png?nolink}} | 1. Do everything as //non//-root user!\\ 2. Issue all OpenWrt Buildroot commands in the ''<buildsystem root>'' directory, e.g. ''~/openwrt/trunk/''\\ 3. Do not build in a directory that has spaces in its full path |
-  - Install ''[[wp>Apache Subversion|subversion]]'' (short: ''svn''), to conveniently download the OpenWrt source code, and ''[[wp>GNU build system|build tools]]'' to assist with the compilation process: <code bash>sudo apt-get update
+  - Install ''[[wp>Apache Subversion|subversion]]'' (short: ''svn''), to conveniently download the OpenWrt source code, and ''[[wp>GNU build system|build tools]]'' to do the cross-compilation process: <code bash>sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential</code>
+sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential</code> Some feeds (e.g. LuCI, openwrt-routing and telephony) are not available over svn but only via ''[[wp>Git (software)|git]]''. If you want to obtain their source-code, you need to install git as well. In Debian do:<code bash>
+sudo apt-get install git-core</code>
      * for information about the subversion tool see ''[[man>svn]]'' and [[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/index.en.html|subversion documentation (multiple languages)]]
-     * for information about the build tools see ''[[man>make]]'' and [[http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/build-essential|build-essential]]
+     * for information about the build tools see ''[[man>make]]'' and [[http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/build-essential|build-essential]]
+     * for information about git see ''[[man>git(7)]]''
   - Download the OpenWrt sources with ''svn''. <code bash>
 mkdir ~/openwrt
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 cd trunk
 </code>
-     * this will create a directory 'trunk', which is the main OpenWrt source code dir
+     * this creates a directory 'trunk', which is the main OpenWrt source code dir
-     * for trunk rev R27988, there will be 14,382 files with an overall size of 150 MiB
+     * for trunk rev R27988, it contains 14,382 files with an overall size of 150 MiB
-     * includes the OpenWrt Buildroot system.
+     * OpenWrt Buildroot is included
      * for more information about [[#Downloading Sources]].
   - Download and install [[doc:devel:feeds]] using feeds script. (//optional//)<code bash>
 ./scripts/feeds update -a
 ./scripts/feeds install -a</code>
-     * after this, Revision 7367, the ''trunk''-dir contained **26,650 files** with an overall size of **302 MiB** (to install individual packages: ''./scripts/feeds install PACKAGENAME'')
+     * after this, Revision 7367, the ''trunk''-dir contained **26,650 files** with an overall size of **302 MiB** (to install only individual packages: ''./scripts/feeds install PACKAGENAME'')
   - Use one of the following commands to check for missing packages on the system you want to build OpenWrt on:<code bash>
 make defconfig
 make prereq
 make menuconfig</code>
-     * this will list missing system packages needed to successfully build OpenWrt using buildroot.
+     * this will list missing system packages needed to successfully build OpenWrt using OpenWrt Buildroot.
-  - Install the missing packages using [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta|package management commands]]. See the examples and table below for more details.
+  - Install the missing packages. On a fresh //Debian 7 Wheezy 32/64Bit// these are:<code>libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk</code>
-  - Proceed with [[build]] or [[https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=34676|Build OpenWrt on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion]]
+  - Proceed with [[build]] (i.e. cross-compile the downloaded sources to binaries)
-:!: After configuring and running make (as described [[doc:howto:build|here]]), ''trunk''-dir contained 244,451 files with a total size of 3.2GiB!
+:!: After the cross-compilation process (as described [[doc:howto:build|here]]), the ''trunk''-directory contained 244,451 files with a total size of 3.2GiB!
 ===== Table of known prerequisites and their corresponding packages =====
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 ^ Prerequisite ^ Debian ^ Suse ^ Red Hat ^ OS X (via MacPorts) ^ Fedora ^ NetBSD ^
 | asciidoc| asciidoc| asciidoc| asciidoc| asciidoc | asciidoc| ?|
-| bash| bash |bash| ?| bash | ?| bash|
+| bash| bash |bash| ?| bash | bash| bash|
 | binutils| binutils | binutils| binutils| binutils| binutils| ?|
 | bzip2| bzip2 | bzip2| bzip2| bzip2| bzip2| ?|
 | fastjar| fastjar|fastjar| libgcj| fastjar| libgcj| ?|
 | flex| flex|flex| ?| flex| flex| ?|
-| git| git-core| git-core| ?| ?| ?| ?|
+| git| git-core| git-core| ?| ?| git | ?|
 | g++| g++| gcc-c++| gcc-c++| ?| gcc-c++| ?|
 | gcc| gcc| gcc| gcc| ?| gcc| ?|
-| getopt| util-linux | util-linux | ?| getopt| ?| getopt|
+| getopt| util-linux | util-linux | ?| getopt| util-linux | getopt|
 | GNU awk| gawk| gawk| gawk| gawk| gawk| ?|
 | gtk2.0-dev| libgtk2.0-dev| ?| gtk2-devel| gtk2| gtk2-devel| ?|
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 | patch| patch | patch| ?| patchutils| patch| ?|
 | perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker| perl-modules | perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker| perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker| p5-extutils-makemaker| perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker| ?|
-| python2.6-dev| python2.6-dev | python-devel| ?| python26| ?| ?|
+| python2.6-dev| python2.6-dev | python-devel| ?| python26| python-devel | ?|
 | rsync| rsync| rsync| ?| rsync| rsync| ?|
 | ruby| ruby| ruby | ?| ruby| ruby| ?|
-| sdcc| sdcc| sdcc| ?| sdcc| sdcc| ?|
+| sdcc| sdcc| sdcc| sdcc| sdcc| sdcc| ?|
 | unzip| unzip| unzip| ?| unzip| unzip| ?|
 | wget| wget | wget| wget| wget| wget| ?|
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 | xgettext| gettext| ?| ?| gettext| gettext| ?|
 | xsltproc| xsltproc| libxslt| ?| libxslt| libxslt| ?|
-| zlib, zlib-static| zlib1g-dev| zlib-devel| ?| ?| ?| ?|
+| zlib, zlib-static| zlib1g-dev| zlib-devel| ?| ?| zlib-devel | ?|
 Unfortunately not all dependencies are checked by ''make config'':
 ^ Package ^ Prerequisite ^ Debian ^ Suse ^ Red Hat ^ OS X ^ Fedora ^ NetBSD ^
-| intltool | [Perl] XML::Parser | libxml-parser-perl | ? | ? | ? | ? | ?|
+| intltool | [Perl] XML::Parser | libxml-parser-perl | ? | perl-XML-Parser | ? | perl-XML-Parser | ?|
-===== Examples =====
+===== Examples of Package Installations =====
-Debian 5.0 Lenny:
+**Debian 5 Lenny:**
-| ''**# aptitude install** gawk ncurses-dev unzip zlib1g-dev'' |
+<code>apt-get install gawk ncurses-dev unzip zlib1g-dev</code>
-Debian 6.0 Squeeze:
+**Debian 6 Squeeze:**
-| ''**# aptitude install** libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex libssl-dev sdcc-nf '' |
+<code>apt-get install libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex libssl-dev sdcc-nf</code>
-Fedora 11:
+**Debian 7 Wheezy:**
-| ''**# yum install** binutils bzip2 gawk gcc gcc-c++ gettext make ncurses-devel patch unzip wget zlib-devel flex git-core'' |
+<code>apt-get install libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk</code>
-openSuSE 11.1
-| ''**# zypper install** binutils bzip2 gawk gcc gcc-c++ gettext make ncurses-devel patch unzip wget zlib-devel flex git-core'' |
-Ubuntu:
+**Fedora 17:**
-| ''**$ sudo apt-get install** build-essential subversion libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex'' |
+<code>yum install -y subversion binutils bzip2 gcc gcc-c++ gawk gettext flex libz-dev flex ncurses-devel zlib-devel make patch unzip  perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
+mkdir ~/openwrt
+cd openwrt
+svn co svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/
+cd trunk
+./scripts/feeds update -a
+./scripts/feeds install -a
+make prereq
+make menuconfig
+ionice -c 3 nice -n 20 make -j 3 #always put nproc +1 </code>
-Ubuntu 9.10, I needed also these (30-03-2011):
+**Fedora 18 - 64Bit** (Maybe also for lower versions, some packages seem to be missing above):
-| ''**$ sudo apt-get install** gcc-multilib bison autoconf screen gcc g++ binutils patch bzip2 flex make gettext unzip libc6 git-core'' |
+<code>yum install -y subversion binutils bzip2 gcc gcc-c++ gawk gettext flex ncurses-devel zlib-devel make patch unzip perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker \
+ glibc glibc-devel glibc-static quilt ncurses-lib sed sdcc intltool sharutils bison</code>
-Ubuntu 11.10:
+<code>#Maybe you need glibc.i686 glibc-static.i686 glibc-devel.i686 libgcc.i686 too</code>
-| ''**$ sudo apt-get install** build-essential subversion git-core libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex quilt'' |
-Ubuntu 64bit:
+**openSuSE 11.1**
-| ''**$ sudo apt-get install** build-essential subversion libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk gcc-multilib flex git-core gettext'' |
+<code>zypper install binutils bzip2 gawk gcc gcc-c++ gettext make ncurses-devel patch unzip wget zlib-devel flex git-core</code>
+**Ubuntu 9.10:**
+<code>sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk gcc-multilib bison autoconf screen gcc g++ binutils patch bzip2 flex make gettext unzip libc6 git-core</code>
-Mac OS X (tested on 64-bit Lion):
+**Ubuntu 11.10:**
-  - Download [[http://www.macports.org/install.php#pkg|MacPorts .pkg Installer]], and install (horizontal scroll for entire second command):
+<code>sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex quilt</code>
+**Ubuntu 12.04LTS:**
+<code>sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex quilt libssl-dev xsltproc libxml-parser-perl</code>
+**Ubuntu 64bit:**
+<code>sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk gcc-multilib flex git-core gettext</code>
+**Mac OS X (tested on 64-bit Lion & Mountain Lion):**
+  - Download & use[[http://www.macports.org/install.php#pkg|MacPorts .pkg Installer]], and install the following packages with the help of Mac-Ports:
   - <code>sudo port -v selfupdate</code>
-  - <code>sudo port install coreutils asciidoc bzip2 fastjar flex getopt gtk2 intltool jikes zlib openssl p5-extutils-makemaker python26 rsync ruby sdcc unzip gettext libxslt bison gawk autoconf wget gmake ncurses e2fsprogs osso-uuid</code>
+  - <code>sudo port install coreutils asciidoc bzip2 fastjar flex getopt gtk2 intltool jikes zlib openssl p5-extutils-makemaker \
+python26 rsync ruby sdcc unzip gettext libxslt bison gawk autoconf wget gmake ncurses e2fsprogs ossp-uuid gawk findutils</code>
   - **Required for 64-bit OS X**: After checking out the source tree via svn above, we need to edit **trunk/tools/Makefile**
    * On line 17, erase the instance of "e2fsprogs" but leave the rest of the line

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