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--- docs:guide-developer:toolchain:use-buildsystem [2024/04/07 08:05] – "setting up" -> installing prerequisites taylorkline
+++ docs:guide-developer:toolchain:use-buildsystem [2024/10/16 18:12] (current) – [Build system usage] jannoke
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 git branch -a
 git tag
-git checkout v23.05.0
+git checkout v23.05.5
 # Update the feeds
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   - Create a dir: ''mkdir -p <buildroot>/my_packages/<section>/<category>/<package_name>''.\\ Replace the ''<package_name>'' with the name of your package.\\ e.g. ''mkdir -p my_packages/net/network/rpcbind''.\\ The section and category can be found in the ''Makefile''.
   - Write a Makefile or download one ''Makefile'' from another package, look at samples on github.\\ Edit your Makefile and add necessary files, sources...\\ More: [[docs:guide-developer:packages|Creating packages]] & [[docs:guide-developer:helloworld:chapter3|Creating a package from your application]]\\
-  - Append a line with your custom feed to ''feeds.conf.default'':\\ ''src-link my_packages <buildroot>/my_packages''\\ Replace the ''<buildroot>'' with cloned openwrt sources directory e.g. ''~/openwrt''\\ Move the line with your custom feed above standard feeds to override them.\\
+  - Append a line with your custom feed to ''feeds.conf.default'':\\ ''src-link my_packages <buildroot>/my_packages''\\ Replace the ''<buildroot>'' with cloned openwrt sources directory e.g. ''/home///user///openwrt'' (the path must be absolute).\\ Move the line with your custom feed above standard feeds to override them.\\
   - Now run: ''./scripts/feeds update -a; ./scripts/feeds install <package_name>''\\ If you are doing this to resolve a dependency you can run ''./scripts/feeds install <package_name>'' one more time and you should notice the dependency has been resolved.\\
-  - Build your package.\\ Select it in the menu of ''Make menuconfig''\\ Build it with ''make package/my_package/{clean,compile}''\\ More: [[docs:guide-developer:toolchain:single.package|Building a single package]]\\
+  - Build your package.\\ Select it in the menu of ''Make menuconfig''\\ Build it with ''make package///my_package_name///{clean,compile}''\\ More: [[docs:guide-developer:toolchain:single.package|Building a single package]]\\
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 :!: Also you won't be able to install kernel packages from the official repositories when you make changes here.
-While you won't typically need to do this, you can do it:
+While you won't typically need to do this, first define the target, subtarget, and device in a ''.config'', for example:
+<code bash>
+CONFIG_TARGET_x86=y
+CONFIG_TARGET_x86_64=y
+CONFIG_TARGET_x86_64_DEVICE_generic=y
+</code>
+Now run the following where subtarget is not a variable, it is a literal and it references the ''.config'' we just created (in this case x86/64):
 <code bash>
 make kernel_menuconfig CONFIG_TARGET=subtarget