[jterry]

I have spent a good deal of time over the last week attempting to compile DD-WRT. I have read most of the things in all the forums, and have had no luck in getting a loadable binary. I would love to get something up and running and would definitely document it for others. This would probably offload some of the developers, etc. and move the project forward. Please let me know if you can give me a hand.

Thank you for your time.

[rkozola]

good luck. I spent about 30 hours last week trying and I am giving up.

I am able to compile the src/linux/brcm/linux.v23 kernel without issue. I get some errors trying to compile src/router. I have no luck with src/linux/brcm/linux.v24_2 at all. The DD-WRT/opt directory is in drastic need of an update along with all the install*.sh scripts. Even after creating install scripts that I believe should work for v24, I got nowhere. My goal was to get this working and update the outdated wiki, but I am not going to waste so much time on the effort.

[jterry]

Don't give up hope. I have made a couple of small changes and gotten much further than ever, with the help of one of the forum people. If we can figure this out and update it, we will probably have a good deal more development and a lot less fixing.

I will try to keep you appraised on my progress.

[rkozola]

just as info, this was my setup. will edit this as I am walking through the linux install process and setup for trying to compile brcm build from svn.

I created a virtual machine using MS VPC 2007. I created a 10gig virtual drive and set the virtual machine up for 512mb of ram.

Used Tiny CD of current stable version of Debian (http://www.debian.com/distrib/netinst).
***This will install a basic console based debian linux system.***
-Choose language and click continue
-Choose language and click continue
-Select a keyboard layout and click continue
-set Hostname: to dd-wrt and click continue
-Leave Domain name: blank and click continue
-Choose a mirror county location and click continue
-Choose a mirror sight and click continue
-Enter HTTP proxy info if needed and click continue
-Choose Guided - use entire disk and click continue
-Select partition and click continue
-Select Separate /home partition and click continue (makes it easy to backup/restore src if needed)
-Select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk and click continue
-Select Yes to write changes and click continue
-Configure time zone and click continue
-Enter a root password and verfiy and click continue
-Enter dd-wrt and Full name for new user and click continue
-Enter dd-wrt for your account and click continue
-Enter a password and verify and click continue
-Select No to the Configuring popularity-contest and click continue
-For Software selection uncheck all boxes except for Standard System, Standard System should be the only one check and click continue
-Select Yes and click continue to install the GRUB boot loader to mbr
-Install is finished, click continue to reboot

After the vm reboots, login with username=root and the password set during install. Issue the following apt-get commands to setup the environment.

(For compiling)
apt-get install gcc g++ binutils patch bzip2 flex bison make gettext unzip zlib1g-dev libc6 libncurses5-dev libstdc++5 automake automake1.7 automake1.9 openssl

(For getting source)
apt-get install subversion

(I used a ssh shell to compile, as I can log output better)
apt-get install ssh

apt-get install sudoers
echo "dd-wrt ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers

exit root user session
login as user dd-wrt

Downloaded the toolchains.x86.debian.sp1.tar.bz2 from Dowloads > others > sourcecode > toolchains and extracted them to /home/dd-wrt/toochains

(create dirs for source)
mkdir DD-WRT
mkdir DD-WRT/image

(symlinks for toolchain and GruppenLW)
sudo ln -s /home/dd-wrt/toolchains/3.4.6-uclibc-0.9.28/ /opt/3.3.4
sudo ln -s /home/dd-wrt/toolchains/3.4.6-uclibc-0.9.28/ /opt/3.3.6
sudo ln -s /home/dd-wrt/toolchains/4.1.0-uclibc-0.9.28/ /opt/4.1.0
sudo mkdir /GruppenLW /home/dd-wrt/DD-WRT/image

(I had better luck using :/opt/3.3.6/bin for compiling v23sp1 source tarball)
PATH=$PATH:/opt/4.1.0/bin

ln -s /home/dd-wrt/toolchains/3.4.6-uclibc-0.9.28/ /home/dd-wrt/toolchains/3.4.6
ln -s /home/dd-wrt/toolchains/4.1.0-uclibc-0.9.28/ /home/dd-wrt/toolchains/4.1.0

***From This Point I Can Compile http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/others/sourcecode/v23/dd-wrt.v23.SP1-Final.src.tar.bz2***


<more to follow> Next is to try and compile from svn

[jterry]

I assume you have read the links ...

http://www.lamagra.com/wiki/index.php/Building_From_Source#Building_DD-WRT_From_Source

http://www.lamagra.com/wiki/index.php/Compiling_DD-WRT_Sources

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7051&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45

An important part is to download and install the mips cross-compiler stuff from

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/others/sourcecode/toolchains/toolchains.x86.debian.sp1.tar.bz2

You should unpack this and link it so that you have a link in /opt

What are you doing for the source code?

[rkozola]

yea, did all that.

should mention that my I was successful compiling the v23 source tarball under Downloads > others > sourcecode > v23. Just cannot checkout from svn and compile.

[rkozola]

commands issued after installation and reboot. This is what I have tried so far in order to set up a build environment and to retrieve the source . I still am having issues getting this to work, will try more later or maybe someone can point me in the right direction from here.

[rkozola]

ignore

[rkozola]

well I got it to sort of compile. just not getting a good image. It looks like I got a good kernel, just have issues somewhere else. If only a dev could chime in with some hints...

[rkozola]

I am having issues with certain targets like dropbear, dhcp-forwarder, wol, lzo, openvpn, snmp, etc.

From svn, these files do not have Makefile in their directories. The Makefile uses rules/configs.mk to set the obj-y strings for all included apps and obj-n for those not included. The all target has the obj-y string which would attempt to make each target contained in obj-y. The problem is that not all directories under router have a Makefile. There are targets set up though rules/all.mk (which sets up targets for the *.mk files under rules), but the *-configure targets do not get run for these.

Am I missing in router/Makefile where the *-configure targets are run?


I believe somethings like the following could fix this in router/Makefile

Add

[Tornado]

You need to create a small scriptl like this and put it in DD-WRT/src/router

-------------------
#!/bin/sh
export PATH=/opt/4.1.0/bin:$PATH

make configure

-------------------


run that script, it will create the nessasary makefiles, etc for you.
For svn > 8890 you will need a different or additional toolchain 4.2.2 - I just built this for 32bit this weekend, you will find it in my directory

Downloads->others->tornado->toolchains

then you will need to change your path statements from 4.1.0 to 4.2.2 , it needs to be in the /opt/4.2.2 directory

[idl0r]

[Tornado]

A little more information would be helpful to understand what you are trying to say ?

[idl0r]

[Tornado]

I see what you mean, uploading another now.

Thanks