Hey,

I tried to compile from source freeradius for my WRT160NL, but when i'm starting "radiusd", I get multiple errors that say: "rlm_* is not an ELF file".

This are the commands I issued on my desktop with ubuntu 11.10(64-bit):

export $STAGING_DIR=/root/test/backfire/staging_dir
export $RANLIB=mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-ranlib

./configure --host=mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc --prefix=/root/freeradius
make LD=mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-ld CC=mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-gcc
make install
ldconfig

now i'm archive all the generated files in a tar file, for safely transport the whole program:

tar -cvzf freeradius /root/freeradius

on my router I unpack it:

tar -xvzf freeradius

And I'm make it executable

export PATH=$PATH:/root/freeradius/bin:/root/freeradius/sbin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/freeradius

radiusd command gives:

./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_exec.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_expr.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_expiration.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_logintime.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_pap.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_chap.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_mschap.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_unix.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_eap.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_eap_md5.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_eap_leap.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_eap_gtc.a' is not an ELF file
./radiusd: '/root/freeradius/lib/rlm_eap_mschapv2.a' is not an ELF file

I'm searching for hours now, but the problem still remains.

You copied static library archives into a directory where only dynamic ELF shared objects are expected, that makes the messages above entirely normal.

Ok, thanks for the quick answer!

So I deleted all the *.a files with the command:

rm /root/freeradius/*.a

(i hope i did not wrong!)

Now those errors are gone, but there's still an other error:

rlm_eap: Ignoring EAP-Type/tls because we do not have OpenSSL support.
rlm_eap: Ignoring EAP-Type/ttls because we do not have OpenSSL support.
rlm_eap: Ignoring EAP-Type/peap because we do not have OpenSSL support.
Module: Linked to sub-module rlm_eap_mschapv2
Module: Instantiating eap-mschapv2
   mschapv2 {
        with_ntdomain_hack = no
   }
rlm_eap: No such sub-type for default EAP type peap
/root/freeradius/etc/raddb/eap.conf[1]: Instantiation failed for module "eap"
/root/freeradius/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default[252]: Failed to find module "eap".
/root/freeradius/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default[199]: Errors parsing authenticate section.
}
}
Errors initializing modules

So I compiled en installed Openssl in /root/openssl and make sure it's executable on my desktop pc.
And then I reconfigure and reïnstall freeradius with the following commands:

./configure --host=mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc --prefix=/root/freeradius --with-openssl-includes=/root/openssl/include --with-openssl-libraries=/root/openssl/lib
make LD=mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-ld CC=mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-gcc
make install
ldconfig

But the error still remains, any ideas?

Why don't you simply use the OpenWrt package of freeradius? It has all this stuff sorted out already.

Because I want to add a patch to the source code, so It's necessary that I can compile my own version of it.
For now I compile it without altering the code.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/devel/patches

Thanks, but even my build without a patch don't succeed because there is no openssl support.

The OpenWrt package has openssl support.