Tipps how to port a simple Linux&Windows CLI App to ALL OpenWrt devices?

TnA-Plastic · April 1, 2023, 8:18am

You see what I am asking for.

I want to port "UDPBD-Server" to OpenWRT and create a simple package.
I know a few people well versed in LUA as well, so we could have a nice implementation in LuCi as well!

What is it?

Well... A custom protocol for the PS2, which combines UDP with BD and can load Block-devices via UDP, which is actually reusable on many platforms, but currently only used&supported in some Test-builds of "Open PS2 Loader".

It is very lightweight and hence VERY fast, even on the "IOP" MIPS I RISC R3000 CPU @36MHz (although some stuff is directly running on the PHY to offload stuff from the CPU), where other stuff is running on at the same time...!!!

I just want to make sure we have an automatic build-system on GitHub (or similar) for updated versions and that it is built for EVERY architecture OpenWRT supports!

TnA-Plastic · May 5, 2023, 5:54am

Compiling the app basically just works.

Any Tipps on how to add it to the automatically build packages for all archs?

RuralRoots · May 5, 2023, 6:54am

The only way I know Contributing to OpenWrt

TnA-Plastic · September 17, 2023, 12:05am

Well, I don't want to create a "patch" for OpenWrt but rather an IPK and have it automatically compiled like the other apps!

It's REALLY easy on any Linux.
You pull the source from GitHub, "make", done...

I want to add this to the official stuff OpenWrt uses to download apps!

jdwl1o1 · September 17, 2023, 1:38am

Process is the same for all submissions, for packages submit your commit to the packages git

dave14305 · September 17, 2023, 2:03am

Also see:

github.com

openwrt/packages/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

# Contributing Guidelines

Ref: <https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/packages> for overall format and construction

## Basic guidelines

All packages you commit or submit by pull-request should follow these simple
guidelines:

- Package a version which is still maintained by the upstream author and will
  be updated regularly with supported versions.
- Have no dependencies outside the OpenWrt core packages or this repository
  feed.
- Have been tested to compile with the correct includes and dependencies.
  Please also test with "Compile with full language support" found under
  "General Build Settings" set if language support is relevant to your package.
- Best of all -- it works as expected!

## Package Sources (archives and repositories)

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stangri · September 17, 2023, 2:56am

Use GitHub CI like OpenWrt does to run build bot for your package for all available architectures.

If you do want to send PR to have the principal package and the luci app to the OpenWrt packages and luci repos respectively, be aware that new luci packages need to be written in javascript for PR to be accepted.

TnA-Plastic · September 19, 2023, 8:17am

Currently it is only the server, but yes a LuCI plugin is planned, but I thought LUA would be sufficient!

Gotta ask some JS-Dev then, because I am not good at JS.