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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