1. ipkg install slugos-native -this package no longer exists on slugos 4.8beta-

This page is deprecated and for historical reference only. See SlugOSNativeCompileEnvironment for the new page.

down load and configure gcc --with-low-memory

the ipk seems to work but some of the libs are missing....? download and install binutils 2.1.7 (not ipk but tar.bz2 from gnu)

download and install binutils 2.1.7

1. ipkg install slugos-native

the ipk seems to work but some of the libs are missing....?

ipkg --force-overwrite install ipkg-utils

stdio.h does not appear to be in /usr/include so install libc6-dev and bind-dev

the next problem is configuring libthread-db1 //usr/lib/ipkg/info/libthread-db1.postinst: 4: ldconfig: not found libthread-db1.postinst returned 127 so run /sbin/ldconfig by hand

works with a warning

I will tidy this up when I get native to work

nano fails gcc does not seem to be looking for libs in /lib bb -b openembedded/packages/nano/nano_1.3.9.bb NOTE: package nano-1.3.9: started NOTE: package nano-1.3.9-r0: task do_fetch: started NOTE: package nano-1.3.9-r0: task do_fetch: completed NOTE: package nano-1.3.9-r0: task do_package: started NOTE: Couldn't find shared library provider for libncurses.so.5 NOTE: Couldn't find shared library provider for libc.so.6 NOTE: Couldn't find shared library provider for libncurses.so.5 NOTE: Couldn't find shared library provider for libc.so.6 sh: ipkg-build: not found NOTE: Task failed: ipkg-build execution failed NOTE: package nano-1.3.9-r0: task do_package: failed ERROR: TaskFailed? event exception, aborting

having a 2.7 slug and a slug3 is helping as long as I dont get mixed up

testing with bb -b openembedded/packages/nano/nano_1.3.9.bb

The command ipkg install openslug-native will install all tools for development, so you can also do your own coding.

not any more. will post musings and tidy up tommeow <Harvy> with openslug-native just installed it and it worked <Harvy> so far I have tried ldconfig <Harvy> stdio.h does not appear to be in /usr/include <Harvy> ah just emerged the libc headers -- found it

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<Harvy> no it is not -- wrong slug <Harvy> ok more of my soloish witterings where does kernel-dev live not /usr/src

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<Harvy> ahh of course libc6-dev and bind-dev were missingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg <Harvy> wounder if anybody will ever read this

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<Harvy> Configuring libthread-db1 <Harvy> //usr/lib/ipkg/info/libthread-db1.postinst: 4: ldconfig: not found <Harvy> postinst script returned status 127 <Harvy> ERROR: libthread-db1.postinst returned 127 run /sbin/ldconfig <Harvy> Nothing to be done <Harvy> is slu bug ever goiing to be back up...?

test with gcc -o hello hello.c

I had to install boost and zlib in order to get monotone to complile

1. Run ipkg install boost-dev
2. Run wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
3. Run tar xvzf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
4. Run cd zlib-1.2.3
5. Run ./configure && make
6. as ROOT Run make install

At the moment (2006-01-12) it's necessary to download and compile monotone >=0.24 on the slug, because openslug 2.7beta ships with monotone 0.22 and there's no way to use the master Makefile without upgrading to 0.24 or 0.25 by yourself.

1. Run wget http://www.venge.net/monotone/downloads/monotone-0.25.tar.gz
2. Run tar xvzf monotone-0.25.tar.gz
3. Run cd monotone-0.25
4. Run ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
5. This may take some time
6. Run make && make install

This takes even more time. You might get a big cup of coffee. If you haven't de-undeclocked your NSLU2 yet, you'll consider it now... Thinking about setting up a cross-compile environment on your 3 Ghz PC? Yeah, me too. This step will take at least 4 hours on an overclocked slug.

So you want to compile natively eh ?

The command ipkg install openslug-native will install all tools for development, so you can also do your own coding.

1. Make sure you have lots of swap
2. Add a normal user, 'slug' is recommended
3. ipkg install openslug-native
4. Login as the normal user
5. Run wget http://www.nslu2-linux.org/Makefile && make setup
6. Run bash, then cd openslug && source setup-env
7. Now you can run make to build everything supposed to be built nativly, or use bb to build specific packages:
   bb -b openembedded/packages/perl/perl-5.8.7.bb

Everything below here is obsolete

1. scp the tarball to your openslug target and untar those directories in /usr/include. Add a symlink of asm-arm to asm in that directory also. (ln -s asm-arm asm)

This is currently a bit experimental, and might change.

1. ipkg install openslug-native

1. Run wget http://www.nslu2-linux.org/Makefile && make setup
2. Run bash, then cd openslug && source setup-env
3. Now you can run make to build everything supposed to be built nativly, or use bb to build specific packages:
   bb -b openembedded/packages/perl/perl-5.8.7.bb

This is currently highly experimental, and will change alot.

1. Add a normal user, 'slug' is recommended

1. Run bash, then cd openslug && source setup-env
2. Now you can build everything supposed to be build nativly with make, or use bb to build specific packages, for example bb -b openembedded/packages/perl/perl-5.8.7.bb

1. Run wget http://www.nslu2-linux.org/Makefile && make setup

1. ln -s libtool /usr/bin/armeb-linux-libtool <-- If this is really needed is unknown.. testing needed

DISTRO = "openslug-native"

BUILD_ARCH = armeb

1. ln -s libtool /usr/bin/armeb-linux-libtool

1. Run wget http://www.nslu2-linux.org/Makefile && make setup && cd openslug && make setup-env conf/local.conf

1. Login as the normal user
2. Run wget http://www.nsul2-linux.org/Makefile && make setup && cd openslug && make setup-env conf/local.conf

1. Now you can use bb to build packages, for example bb -b openembedded/packages/perl/perl-5.8.7.bb. just wait 3 hours and you will have your packages :-)

1. ipkg install openslug-native

1. Add/change the folowing in your openslug/local.conf:\\

/etc/ipkg/perl-feed.conf && ipkg update && ipkg install perl@@
you can also build it locally yourself it you want.

BBFILES := "${OEROOT}/oe-symlinks/native/*/*.bb"

Using BitBake on the slug

This is currently highly experimental, and will change alot. This is supposed to be simplified over time.

1. Make sure you have lots of swap
2. Add an user, 'slug' is recommended
3. Run the OpenSlugDevInst.sh script
4. Install all of python except python-curses, using: ipkg list | grep ^python | grep -v curses | cut -f1 -d" " | xargs ipkg install
5. Install perl, unfortuanly there is no working perl in the feed right now, there are some unofficial ones you can use by running: echo "src/gz oe2 http://david.thg.se/saker/openslug/native/unstable" >
/etc/ipkg/perl-feed.conf && ipkg update && ipkg install perl, you can build it locally yourself it you want.
6. ipkg install ipkg-utils libtool quilt pkgconfig --force-depend --force-overwrite
7. ln -s /usr/bin/libtool armeb-linux-libtool
8. Copy bitbake, openembedded, openslug (excluding tmp) and oe-symlinks from you normal build host to the homedirectory of the user you created
9. cd bitbake && ./setup.py build && ./setup.py install
10. Add/change the folowing to your openslug/local.conf:
    ASSUME_PROVIDED = "libtool-cross libtool-native automake-native autoconf-native \
    quilt-native ipkg-utils-native gnu-config-native pkgconfig-native \
    virtual/armeb-linux-gcc virtual/libc update-rc.d"
    BUILD_ARCH = armeb
    BBFILES := "${OEROOT}/oe-symlinks/native/*/*.bb"
    # Create oe-symlinks/native and link in the packages you want avaliable
11. Done, make sure you are logged in as your normal user, run bash, then cd openslug && source setup-env
12. Now you can use bb to build packages, for example bb perl. just wait 3 hours and you will have your packages :-)

• Perl 5.8.7 (note you neet to echo 5 > /proc/cpu/alignment for the ./configure.gnu to work)

NOTE: The three first lines are comments, the 4th line starts with *** BUG. Remove 'em all, leaving only the GROUP-line.

NOTE: When this HowTo was written, binutils and gnu-config were missing from openembedded/packages/meta/openslug-packages.bb If they are not built, add them in the OPENSLUG_DEVELOPMENT section.

NOTE: The three first lines are comments, the 4th line starts with *** BUG. Remove 'em all.

1. tar up the following directories from your tmp/work/openslug-kernel-.../linux-2.6.11.2/include (asm-arm, asm-generic, linux) -- thanks to jacques for giving me this tip and the libpthread one that follows shortly.

So you want do compile natively eh ?

Here's how [g2] does it. It may not be the best (I'm open for suggestions), but I've been able to build

• Python 2.4.1
• Linux kernel 2.6.11.2
• libxml2
• Apache 2.0.53
• PHP 5.04
• Schoolbell which uses Zope3 and Python
• Most of Perl (haven't tried the full compile in a while)

Things you'll need

1. A recent pull > mid June 2005 (this has all the openslug-packages)
2. bb openslug-image and openslug-packages
3. turnup to an external harddisk (you'll need the hd for swap)
4. Setup the swap partition (I'm using 192MB with my 64MB fat slug)
5. (for now) a http server on your build machine or a copy of the tmp/deploy/ipk directory

What to do

1. Edit /etc/ipkg.conf on your slug to point to you local ipkgs build. For me that meant removing the /etc/ipkg/oe-nslu2.conf file for now and changing /etc/ipkg.conf from having src line in there to point to "src openslug http://192.168.123.xx" which is my tmp/deploy/ipk directory.
2. ipkg update
3. (optional) I installed vim-tiny "ipkg install vim-tiny"
4. Run the OpenSlugDevInst.sh script (I'll be adding this to openslug-init soon after some more testing
5. tar up the following directories from your tmp/work/openslug-kernel-.../linux-2.6.11.2/include (asm-arm, asm-generic, linux)
6. scp the tarball to your openslug target and untar those directories in /usr/include. Add a symlink of asm-arm to asm in that directory also.
7. cd /usr/lib; edit libc.so and libpthread.so and delete the comments before the GROUP line. I think this is the 4 for lines.

Feel empowered

At this point you are ready to build stuff. You can now do stuff like:

1. wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/Python-2.4.1.tar.bz2
2. untar it
3. cd Python-2.4.1
4. ./configure 2>&1 | tee py_config.log
5. make 2>&1 | tee py_make.log
6. make test
7. make install