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1.2       misho       1:  -= How-to build ELWIX system project =-
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1.5.2.2 ! misho       3: $Id: BUILD.txt,v 1.5.2.1 2016/11/21 17:25:33 misho Exp $
1.2       misho       4: =========================================
                      5: 
                      6:  I. Intro
                      7:        Before starting any work on ELWIX must we prepare environment.
                      8: 
                      9: What this means ::
                     10:  - We must downloading freebsd sources from CVS/SVN repository and put on separate place from /usr/src.
                     11: Set in config/rc.elwix variable BSDSRC="..." with place where you get freebsd sources.
                     12:  - We gather from ELWIX CVS repository kodicom_mux project. After this we need to patch our freebsd
                     13: sources like that "cd <where you put freebsd sources>; patch -p0 < <kodicom_mux/contrib/kodicom.patch>"
                     14:  - We must checkout from ELWIX CVS repository core libraries "libait*" , "embedtools", "embedaddons" 
                     15: and GPLv2 "gpl/*" projects
                     16:  - Optional download of 3th party software for ELWIX firmware. Project name is embedaddon from ELWIX CVS
                     17: 
1.5.2.1   misho      18:  II. Build system process
1.2       misho      19:        1. Init build structures with clean directory tree
1.5       misho      20:                ./build_init.sh <filename of project config>
1.2       misho      21:        2. Cross compile entire userland software
                     22:                ./build_world.sh
                     23:        3. Cross compile ELWIX kernel
                     24:                ./build_kernel.sh
                     25:        4. Cross compile ELWIX tools
                     26:                ./build_tools.sh
                     27:        5. Cross compile optional 3th party software 
                     28:                ./build_3thparty.sh
1.5.2.1   misho      29: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                     30:        6. Now is moment for build BaseFS ELWIX system
1.3       misho      31:                ./build_base.sh
1.5.2.1   misho      32: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                     33:        7. Moment comes for build big system binary and inject rootfs image into kernel
1.2       misho      34:                ./build_rootfs.sh
1.3       misho      35:        8. Make romfs image and build big fat second stage firmware image
1.2       misho      36:                ./build_romfs.sh
1.5.2.1   misho      37:        9. Now is moment for build RootFS ELWIX system
1.2       misho      38:                ./build_fs.sh
1.5.2.1   misho      39: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.2       misho      40: 
                     41:  Ok, now we did ELWIX version and placed to build/release directory like tar.gz file
                     42: 
1.5.2.1   misho      43:  Example of produced tar balls::
                     44:        ELWIX_X.X_target_{base|rootfs|rootfsext}_size_arch_date.tar.gz
                     45: 
                     46:  III. Build storage image
1.5.2.2 ! misho      47:        1. Build ELWIX system into binary fs image file
        !            48:                ./install2img <ELWIX_X.X_target_.....tar.gz> [image_size_in_KB]
        !            49:        2. Build ELWIX system into direct device
        !            50:                ./install2dev </dev/daX> <ELWIX_X.X_target_.....tar.gz>
        !            51:        3. Build ELWIX system into separate compressed binary images for u-boot embedded devices
        !            52:                ./install2uboot <kernel|kernel_rootfs|rootfs|bin|vendor>
1.5.2.1   misho      53: 
                     54:  IV. Information
                     55:        For more information
1.2       misho      56:        Michael Pounov <misho@elwix.org> or <support@elwix.org>
                     57: 
                     58:  Best regards
                     59:    Michael Pounov
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