Hi [mbm] and anybody else would made OpenWRT already that nice,

I was just about to create a mobilemesh package (http://www.mitre.org/work/tech_transfer/mobilemesh/) for b4-pre. However, mobilemesh is c++ and therefore needs gcc++ as well as the libstdc++. Whereas I (a "dump" developer) am able to compile and package mobilemesh, I am, however, not able to compile the gcc++ and libstdc++ .  Unfortunately  :oops: 
I tried to compile gcc++ and the libstdc++ by setting "INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP:=true" in the Makefile, but this did not work, since this statement seemed to be ignored by the make process. Anyway..

Even if I could compile it, I would then probably include the libstdc++ within the mobilemesh-package. Other c++ programs will maybe also provide the libs they need within their specific package.

I would like to suggest the following:

The "make" does not only build the openwrt-code.bin and a toolchain for c-programs, but builds a _real_ toolchain with:
* gcc++ and libstdc++
* ncurses
* whatever libs are also needed quite frequently

The libs in this toolchain (or a buildroot, if you prefer) are then provided in form of packages for the Linksys WRT54G. This way all package maintainers use the same version of a library and do only have to make their specific library make depend on that provided lib.

Just a suggestion, but I think, such a automatically built  environment for package maintainers would certainly speed up the package developement.

g++ and libstdc++ can be enabled by changing INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP in the buildroot Makefile. Please set it before you compile the toolchain or otherwise do a make clean.

If you really want to get the jump on package development, take a look at the openzaurus project's buildroot system: http://openzaurus.sourceforge.net/snaps … ed.tar.bz2

The openzaurus buildroot has a nice frontend (hint: make menuconfig) which allows you to create an entire toolchain and several packages; with some modifications it may be possible to use that to build some openwrt packages.

Hi mbm,

thanks for the advice. I set INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP after I already compiled the firmware, that's probably why it did not work.

nightingale

Hey there I was wondering if you were able to get this to compile yet?

Mesh

There are tons of prepackaged libraries for package developpers that you can find here :

http://nthill.free.fr/openwrt/tracker/

Ncurses is available by typing :

make ncurses

and others are available too !