Hi Phil,
I think the ADK Package route is the way to go, but I'm not sure,
looking at it where to start.
I looked in the docs dir at the single-package template, but it doesn't
really explain what it's doing!
Would you be prepared to talk me through building a simple hello world
package?
If you could do that, I'd be happy to write it up as a tutorial
afterwards :)
Alan
Phil Sutter wrote:
> Hey Alan,
>
> I'm fullquoting here, cause I'd like to have the full conversation held
> in freewrt-users@ as this might interest others as well.
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:59:30AM +0100, alan lenton wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> My apologies for being obscure :)
>>
>> I have an application, written in C++, that uses libcurl to run tests on
>> what the real speed of the line is. I originally developed this for an Alix
>> box which was running the current version of OpenWrt. I now need to port it
>> to a LinkSys wrt54gl, which is running FreeWrt.
>>
>> With the Alix there was a separate SDK which took my source code and its
>> makefile, built a binary suitable for OpenWrt on the Alix and also provided
>> a .ipk package.
>>
>> I was wondering it there was a similar tool for FreeWrt, and if not, how I
>> would go about building a non-standard binary from scratch.
>>
>> I'm sorry if the answer is obvious, but I'm pretty new to embedded
>> programming, even though I've been programming Linux since 1992 (basically
>> server stuff).
>>
>> Thanks for replying,
>>
>> Alan
>
> Well, there is nothing supporting out-of-tree builds in the FreeWRT ADK,
> but I'd recommend integrating your code into the ADK instead. So you may
> want to have a look at other packages in the package/ subdirectory.
> Although it looks complicated in the beginning, it's actually quite
> straight forward to port new packages, even for new users. If you have
> any questions, don't hesitate generating some traffic on this list. :)
>
> OTOH you could try an out-of-tree build. The cross tools are in
> cross_mipsel/host/bin (for mipsel targets, of course), headers and
> libraries are in cross_mipsel/target/{lib,include}. Also for each
> library in packages/, if you have enabled it in menuconfig, it will be
> put into cross_mipsel/target. So if you need curl, just activate
> libcurl, run a build and your cross tools should be complete. :)
>
> Good luck, Phil
>
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