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[edit] Develop with OpenWrt SDK

Porting application with OpenWrt-SDK is much easier than developing with openwrt-xburst.git.

wget http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/software/images/Ben_NanoNote_2GB_NAND/latest/OpenWrt-SDK-xburst-for-Linux-x86_64-gcc-4.3.3+cs_uClibc-0.9.30.1.tar.bz2
make symbolic name "/home/xiangfu/openwrt-xburst.full_system" to your SDK folder. this is my fault, the SDK is built on our build-host. I use this dir to compile the SDK, next time I think we should change it to "/opt/openwrt/"
there is a folder named 'package' under OpenWrt-SDK. For each package you want to create, you'll have to create a sub-folder in 'OpenWrt-SDK/package' with the same name as the package you want to create. And in this directory, create a Makefile explaining how to build it.
Here is a sample Makefile which is for 4th, there are more comments in this makefile.
compile the package in OpenWrt-SDK: make V=99 or make package/PACKAGE_NAME/compile V=99 The V=99 option makes output more verbose, so that in case of errors we can easily figure out what happened.
the OpenWrt work flow is like:
1. make package/PACKAGE_NAME/compile
2. download origin source code to 'dl'
3. extract to build_dir/target-mipsel.../PAKCAGE_NAME-PAKCAGE_VERSION
4. apply the patches in package/PACKAGE_NAME/patches/* which are patches created by you to fix compile errors for OpenWrt or for NanoNote.
5. configure && make && make install.
6. generate the PACKAGE_NAME.ipg under 'bin/xburst/packages/'

Some NanoNote packages not in OpenWrt are provided by the openwrt-packages repository, also known as qipackages in the software build process.
One idea would be to clone this repo and add new ports to it (with appropriate symlinks) for easy pulls.
See openwrt-packages for guidelines around this project.

A list of failed packages is produced for each release, as well as in snapshot builds.