@Chris-McCaslin Thanks, but I know about cross compilation on a Linux box - I do it all the time My question related to performing compilation on the Omega itself, for which, as far as I can see, pretty well all the tools are available on the Omega with the glaring exception of make The step you refer to in the tutorial you reference relates to using make menuconfig in an OpenWrt cross compilation environment. I have tried using that and nowhere within the menus do I find any reference to any package containing the make program. Under make menuconfig I usually use the / command to search for program etc - doing so for make finds nothinpertaining to the make program itself.

@Justin-Sowers As per this post: https://community.onion.io/topic/9/how-to-install-gcc/47 it is possible to set up the Omega with swap space that effectively gives it extra usable memory space (note that usage of USB for overlay as in https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Using-USB-Storage-as-Rootfs only makes more disk space available for the /overlay directory, it does not increase usable memory space). Currently, most of the opkg packages are designed around the relatively limited basic resources of the Omega. What is needed is access to packages that can (a) make use of greater disk space (e.g.via /overlay on USB drive) and/or (b) use more memory space if it is available via swap