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- How To Independently Build Firmware For The Routers ASUS RT-N14U/N56U/N65U/N11P/AC51U/AC54U/AC1200HP/N56UB1
- Instructions for independently build firmware for your router from source in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS i386.
- Install to your PC the Oracle VirtualBox.
- Download Ubuntu 16.04 LTS i386 (for example, from this mirror).
- Create new virtual machine and install Ubuntu from step 2 to it. VirtualBox may use a ISO-image as drive in virtual machine.
- warning.png If you plan to use Ubuntu with the GUI, you must dedicate at least 1.5Gb of RAM for the virtual machine. When you select a smaller size of RAM you may receive errors when you create the image of the firmware.
- Start your virtual machine and open Terminal on it.
- Install git:
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install git
- Go to directory /opt and run command for create the local copy of repository:
- cd /opt
- sudo git clone https://bitbucket.org/padavan/rt-n56u.git
- This copies all the source code, creates a local git-repository. Directory /opt/rt-n56u will be the root of the git-repository.
- Read the document /opt/rt-n56u/readme.eng.txt and install all the required packages that are listed in it:
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install autoconf automake autopoint bison build-essential flex gawk gettext git gperf libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev libgmp3-dev libmpc-dev libmpfr-dev texinfo python-docutils
- mc (midnight commander) do not need to build the firmware, but it will help you navigate through directories, copy or edit files.
- Go to directory with toolchain sources (cross-compiler and tools for building) and build it:
- cd /opt/rt-n56u/toolchain-mipsel
- sudo ./clean_sources
- sudo ./build_toolchain
- The result will be collected the target of toolchain /opt/rt-n56u/toolchain-mipsel/toolchain-3.4.x
- If you plan to build the firmware with the kernel 3.0, you must build the appropriate version of tolchain:
- cd /opt/rt-n56u/toolchain-mipsel
- sudo ./clean_sources
- sudo ./build_toolchain_3.0.x
- The result will be collected the target of toolchain /opt/rt-n56u/toolchain-mipsel/toolchain-3.0.x
- In the future, you will need these commands only if the toolchain will be updated.
- Now go to directory with sources:
- cd /opt/rt-n56u/trunk
- and edit file /opt/rt-n56u/trunk/.config to fit your needs.
- Edit path to toolchain (if you need it):
- CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_DIR=/opt/rt-n56u/toolchain-mipsel
- To build the firmware, for example, for router RT-N65U uncomment (remove the simbol #) the line:
- CONFIG_FIRMWARE_PRODUCT_ID="RT-N65U"
- and comment the line:
- #CONFIG_FIRMWARE_PRODUCT_ID="RT-N56U"
- Save the file after edit.
- Clear source tree (every time before a new build)
- sudo ./clear_tree
- Build the firmware:
- sudo ./build_firmware
- Created custom firmware file will be in the directory ./path_to_your_dir/rt-n56u/trunk/images. If you want to save the firmware that you created earlier - copy it to another location, because the command clear_tree overwrites the directory images.
- When repository updated a local source tree must be updated with command:
- sudo git pull
- If you made ββany changes to the local repository, when you upgrade tree some files could not be copied. In this case, you must give the command:
- sudo git stash
- sudo git pull
- If toolchain sources (cross-compiler and tools for building) is changed you must re-build it:
- cd /opt/rt-n56u/toolchain-mipsel
- sudo ./clean_sources
- sudo ./clean_toolchain
- sudo ./build_toolchain
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