Install packages to your PC

sudo apt-get install subversion  g++ ncurses-term zlib1g-dev gawk flex patch openssh-server minicom tftp tftpd gettext libncurses5 libncurses5-dev unzip quilt

sudo apt-get install git git-doc git-gui

Get latest sources

git clone https://github.com/8devices/carambola carambola

It is not necessary, but you might need this later.

git clone https://github.com/8devices/packages packages

Even more - if you need more stuff you can add it by typing (feeds)

cd carambola
./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a

Build image

Go to carambola folder

cd carambola

If you wish you can change kernel settings, but at this time skip this step.

make kernel_menuconfig

Type

make menuconfig

You should see configuration window like this:

Let's leave everything untouched for now and and exit.

Type

make

for standard building procedure or

make -j 2

if you want to use more than 1 thread and you have more than 1 CPU core on your system. This process takes long time (it took ~1 hour on 4 core machine) or

make V=99

if you need or want to more details

Remaining steps

Links

openwrt building