OpenWRT Tool Chain on Windows for Omega

[Kit Bishop]

@Theodore-Borromeo Thanks for the link. Much appreciated. Will follow it up

[Kit Bishop]

This may be slightly off topic, but I am hoping someone can help me out.
In relation to various posts above, I have done the following:

• Created a VM running Debian 5 based largely on information from http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/buildvm - this all went well
• Proceeded with trying to set up the OpenWrt build system as in http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/buildroot.exigence this largely went OK up to a point

However, did have some issues I am unclear about:

• a. When executing the listed command:
  ./scripts/feeds install -a
  I get the message:
  Build dependency: Please install Git (git-core) >= 1.6.5
  Yet when I do:
  sudo apt-get upgrade git-core
  it tells me it is up to date

• When executing the command:
  make defconfig
  I get the same message regarding git-core dependency.

Does any one know what I should do. Thanks in advance

[Boken Lin]

@Kit-Bishop Debian 5 is from 2009, so it is extremely old. See if moving to Debian 6 would solve this issue. I typically use Ubuntu, which is usually much more up to date.

[Kit Bishop]

@Boken-Lin Thanks. Will give Debian 6 a try. I was going by the instructions in: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/buildvm
Where it says:
To set up the development system, download Debian (here 5.0).
But Ive just noticed that page is actually quite old: dated: 2011/12/30

[Theodore Borromeo]

@Kit-Bishop So I still am failing on build, but I pushed a v0 tag to:
https://hub.docker.com/r/borromeotlhs/onion-omega

So if you login to docker from the command line and do:
docker pull borromeotlhs/onion-omega:v0

You should receive a container that is ready to have:
make

ran in it I'll be trying to build once more on my 2008 macbook pro

[Fred Blais]

I saw this tutorial the other day : https://giovanni.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/how-to-cross-compile-a-c-program-for-openwrt/
It should not be too hard to setup a cross compile environment on Linux

[Kit Bishop]

@Fred-Blais Thanks for the link. Always useful to have something that explains things simply and clearly Should be useful once I have the cross compile environment set up.

[Theodore Borromeo]

Seems to be progressing with my make call Currently at San Diego Intl Airport before my vacation to Maui to finish this up! I can't wait to 'docker commit' this thing and push it once and if it completes. . .

[Theodore Borromeo]

RAAAARRRRRRGGGGHH!!!!

[Lazar Demin]

@Theodore-Borromeo i know that feeling all too well...

[Kit Bishop]

@Boken-Lin Above, you suggested that I try to: See if moving to Debian 6 would solve this issue
On going to the Debian site to get a newer version, I noticed that the current stable version of Debian is 8.2.0

Do you think it would be safe to go straight to Debian 8.2.0 for setting up the OpenWRT tool chain?

[Theodore Borromeo]

@Lazar-Demin

Well, it seems that my compile went through. Apparently, you NEED internet while openwrt builds After reconnecting every 45 minutes at LAX, it seems to have finished!

https://hub.docker.com/r/borromeotlhs/onion-omega/tags/ @ tag: 'v1' should be the completely compiled toolchain

or:
FROM borromeotlhs/onion-omega:v1

in a Dockerfile. . . Good luck!

[Kit Bishop]

Finally had time to get back to this
Have now set up a more lightweight and up to date system on a VM - kubuntu 14.04
Have managed to proceed further following instructions in: https://github.com/OnionIoT/OpenWRT-Packages/wiki/Setting-Up-the-Cross-Compile-Environment
Got as far as Step 6a: make
This initially failed, but I tracked the problem down to not having texinfo
Resolved by using apt-get install texinfo

Perhaps this should be mentioned in the above referenced link?