HowTo native compilation ?

[al37919]

Well, may be instead of flooding the forum by endless and useless topics you make an effort to read what is already answered on your questions?

Hint: read two last lines of the following post 100 times until the Great Enlightenment comes to you: http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=126157&postcount=18

I don't think that your flood in Russian forum will be honored either.

[darius]

Well, may be instead of flooding the forum by endless and useless topics you make an effort to read what is already answered on your questions?

Hint: read two last lines of the following post 100 times until the Great Enlightenment comes to you: http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=126157&postcount=18

I don't see any flood in Russian forum will be honored either.

As there is no flood in Russian forum at all, very basic questions only,
let others to share their Linux experience.

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Russian Discussion
http://wl500g.info/forumdisplay.php?f=86
My dear friend,

I am surprised by your answer and really don't know what your problem is.
You are Forum Guru.
Aren't you ?

So I have asked you very basic question how to native compile Linux dialog
and still don't have your answer

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http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=126157&postcount=18

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Hm..., and where in this text you see the statement that this should be done on the router?
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I am not interested in philosophy.
I have asked very basic question and expected exact answer only.
Yes or No.

If you claim native compilation is not possible, just say so, to save my time.
But say it in plain words, avoding any philosophy.


Not giving exact anwers that's you generating the problem, forcing me to ask the same question again to other members.

None topic is endless and useless.
Native compilation is of great importance to users of Asus routers.

I don't need to read any post 100 times.
Read your answer once and run compiler and got syntax error message.

Is ")" syntax error ok for you ?

Asking questions is not flooding a forum.
Russian Discussion is populated by many experienced Linux developers
so I expect Linux dialog be compiled for a router,
by one such experienced Linux developer finally.

Native or cross compiled.

Asking question is expecting to get the right answer.
If I don't get it, I just say what I did, what results are, and ask what should I do next.

So what is your final answer to my question about native compilation of Linux dialog.

As I am not a Linux developer, Asus router user only, I expected to get help from this Forum's Guru, not another puzzle.

Can you write step-by-step Native Compile HowTo manual one day for beginners ?

If not Linux dialog, so what about native compilation of
ncurses.c / curses exaple
from
http://www.captain.at/howto-curses-example.php

Or some other solution for outputting shell script generated data to monitor screen ?
gmplot is for graphics,

installed ncurses interface
ipkg install ncurses and still don't know how to start
basic data viewer application (very very basic) on native Asus router.


As you see, I am really surprised, much more experienced Linux fans
didn't compiled Linux dialog yet.
One claimed a problem with ncurses compilation.

Have a nice day.

Darius

BTW
As your claims are totally unsupported
copy goes to my lawyer for review.

[wpte]

Well, may be instead of flooding the forum by endless and useless topics you make an effort to read what is already answered on your questions?

Hint: read two last lines of the following post 100 times until the Great Enlightenment comes to you: http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=126157&postcount=18

I don't think that your flood in Russian forum will be honored either.

yeh... gotta agree with that tbh...
darius, I don't think ur a bad guy, but we are all here to learn and help. it's free and we do it voluntairy.
you can't just come here and shout to everyone that he needs to help you.
I didn't do everything by myself, and so didn't all the others here (if I may say that), but we did find out stuff for ourself and shared it here. so others can find their way to a nice router quickly.
I love reading and posting on the forums since I keep learning here, things I might use in my study

anyway... sorry for my site to have a bug I didn't discovered yet
probably have to change a few settings there
but here you go: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=14538

[darius]

yeh... gotta agree with that tbh...
darius, I don't think ur a bad guy, but we are all here to learn and help. it's free and we do it voluntairy.
you can't just come here and shout to everyone that he needs to help you.
I didn't do everything by myself, and so didn't all the others here (if I may say that), but we did find out stuff for ourself and shared it here. so others can find their way to a nice router quickly.
I love reading and posting on the forums since I keep learning here, things I might use in my study

anyway... sorry for my site to have a bug I didn't discovered yet
probably have to change a few settings there
but here you go: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=14538

wpte, I don't think ur a bad guy,

visited the above thread and followed your HowTo

ipkg update
ipkg upgrade

ipkg install optware-devel
ipkg install buildroot

Downloaded the source into /opt/dialog directory

./configure --prefix=/opt
make
make install

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The issue is, when I run
./configure --prefix=/opt


[admin@oo dialog]$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dialog
checking for package version... 1.1
checking for package patch date... 20080819
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Ok. I am low on memory
and mayby I should copy dialog sources
into /mnt/share/dialog directory
as advised by wpte

I tested gcc, running it alone from a command line and it generated "(" syntax error.

How could I debug to see what's wrong ?

I am a beginner in Linux compilation.

As you can see there is a problem with c compiler.
How to debug it ?

Darius

[darius]

follow-up

logfile

[admin@oo dialog]$ ipkg update
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...table/Packages .gz

Inflating http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...ble/Packages.g z
Updated list of available packages in /opt/lib/ipkg/lists/optware
Successfully terminated.
[admin@oo dialog]$ ipkg upgrade
Upgrading bluez-hcidump on /opt/ from 1.40-1 to 1.42-1...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...table/bluez-hc idump_1.42-1_mipsel.ipk
Upgrading bluez-libs on /opt/ from 3.17-1 to 3.36-1...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...table/bluez-li bs_3.36-1_mipsel.ipk
Upgrading bluez-utils on /opt/ from 3.17-1 to 3.36-3...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...table/bluez-ut ils_3.36-3_mipsel.ipk
Upgrading hdparm on /opt/ from 8.9-1 to 9.6-1...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...table/hdparm_9 .6-1_mipsel.ipk
Upgrading libpng on /opt/ from 1.2.33-1 to 1.2.34-1...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...table/libpng_1 .2.34-1_mipsel.ipk
Configuring bluez-hcidump
Configuring bluez-libs
Configuring bluez-utils
Configuring hdparm
update-alternatives: Linking //opt/sbin/hdparm to /opt/sbin/hdparm-hdparm
Configuring libpng
Successfully terminated.
[admin@oo dialog]$ ipkg install optware-devel
Package optware-devel (6.8-9) installed in /opt/ is up to date.
Nothing to be done
Successfully terminated.
[admin@oo dialog]$ ipkg install buildroot
Package buildroot (4.1.1-13) installed in /opt/ is up to date.
Nothing to be done
Successfully terminated.
[admin@oo dialog]$
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[admin@oo dialog]$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dialog
checking for package version... 1.1
checking for package patch date... 20080819
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
[admin@oo dialog]$

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follow-up 2

[admin@oo dialog]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 3008 3008 0 100% /
/dev/root 3008 3008 0 100% /
/dev/discs/disc0/part2
1198832 1155480 0 100% /opt
/dev/discs/disc0/part3
2140816 68444 1963624 4% /tmp/mnt/disc0_3
[admin@oo dialog]$

Do I need to free some space to run configuration ?

Darius

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follow-up 3

how did you create a new directory share in /mnt ?

you said:
"

I''ve uploaded the file to /mnt/share/apache
cd to the directory
"

[admin@oo /mnt]$ ls
[admin@oo /mnt]$ mkdir share
cannot create directory `share': Read-only file system
[admin@oo /mnt]$


D.

[wpte]

[admin@oo dialog]$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dialog
checking for package version... 1.1
checking for package patch date... 20080819
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

that last line is most likely ur problem, for some reason you can get errors during install.

try this code to reinstall the whole compile package (also in my howto)

ipkg update
ipkg install -force-overwrite -force-reinstall optware-devel autoconf automake bash bison bzip2 coreutils diffutils file findutils flex gawk groff libstdc++ libtool make m4 ncurses openssl patch perl pkgconfig python rsync sed svn tar wget-ssl buildroot

anyway... you get a syntax error, wich means there are some missing/to mutch signs like ()[] etc.
Debugging is done via putting breakpoints down... but since I think you can't do that, nor have the software for it... you can better use the lots of debugging flag turned on:

make -d

native compiling is always tricky since not everything is supported on a mipsel device...

now there isn't mutch else to say about this, because compiling is always tricky, and you do need to know basic programming skills at C or C++ to properly fix things.

[darius]

that last line is most likely ur problem, for some reason you can get errors during install.

try this code to reinstall the whole compile package (also in my howto)


anyway... you get a syntax error, wich means there are some missing/to mutch signs like ()[] etc.
Debugging is done via putting breakpoints down... but since I think you can't do that, nor have the software for it... you can better use the lots of debugging flag turned on:


native compiling is always tricky since not everything is supported on a mipsel device...

now there isn't mutch else to say about this, because compiling is always tricky, and you do need to know basic programming skills at C or C++ to properly fix things.

thanks again
and have a look at errors generated while reinstalling packages

Ok. Compiling is always tricky, but we all use the same firmware, the same hardware, the same packages, so compiling is a deterministic process
and we should get the same results for the same configuration and settings.

Frankly speaking I don't anyone but me, claiming native compilation problems.
On the other hand, I don't anyone claiming successful native compilation of any package, any program in c.

You have ever succeeded in native compilation ?
If so, how did you manage to create any directory in /mnt read only directory ?

logfile
....
update-alternatives: Linking //opt/bin/sed to /opt/bin/gnu-sed
Configuring svn
Configuring tar
update-alternatives: Linking //opt/bin/tar to /opt/bin/gnutar
Configuring wget-ssl
An error ocurred, return value: 22.
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 1: `wget -q -P /opt/ipkg-F1bzOx http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...-13_mipsel.ipk'
Failed to download buildroot. Perhaps you need to run 'ipkg update'?
[admin@oo /mnt]$

memory usage
++++++++++++
[admin@oo ncurses]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 3008 3008 0 100% /
/dev/root 3008 3008 0 100% /
/dev/discs/disc0/part2
1198832 1157340 0 100% /opt
/dev/discs/disc0/part3
2140816 68444 1963624 4% /tmp/mnt/disc0_3
[admin@oo ncurses]$

Any idea what's wrong ?

/opt/ipkg-F1bzOx looks like broken temporary download

Darius

[wpte]

You have ever succeeded in native compilation ?
If so, how did you manage to create any directory in /mnt read only directory ?

When you read... do you think?
I have my hdd mounted on /mnt (because it's shorter, duh!)
maybe you have it mounted on /tmp/harddisk
I dunno, just place it somewhere you can access it!

and yes, I had several properly compiled packages under oleg:
libupnp, wol, Ocaml, openssh, openvpn, ncurses and some others.

some other guys reading my how-to managed to compile things like extra PHP includes.

+ just start off with something easy and small to compile, so you can get the grip on it and feel the way compiling happens.

[darius]

When you read... do you think?
I have my hdd mounted on /mnt (because it's shorter, duh!)
maybe you have it mounted on /tmp/harddisk
I dunno, just place it somewhere you can access it!

and yes, I had several properly compiled packages under oleg:
libupnp, wol, Ocaml, openssh, openvpn, ncurses and some others.

some other guys reading my how-to managed to compile things like extra PHP includes.

+ just start off with something easy and small to compile, so you can get the grip on it and feel the way compiling happens.

When you read... do you think?
as you can see my last 2 follow-ups
there is permanent problem with buildroot download.
So how could I compile anything easy or small at all .

Could you verify buildroot download on your native Linux machine ?

Darius


[admin@oo /mnt]$ ipkg install -force-overwrite -force-reinstall buildroot
Reinstalling buildroot (4.1.1-13) on /opt/...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...-13_mipsel.ipk
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 22.
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 1: `wget -q -P /opt/ipkg-cF3Erv http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...-13_mipsel.ipk'
Failed to download buildroot. Perhaps you need to run 'ipkg update'?
[admin@oo /mnt]$