TP-Link Archer C20 v4 build failed

[peternikolow]

Hello!

From few days building latest from source failed. Today i was able to debug it and here is what happens:

/home/peter/sources/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/lzma e /home/peter/sources/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/tplink_archer-c20-v4-kernel.bin -lc1 -lp2 -pb2  /home/peter/sources/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/tplink_archer-c20-v4-kernel.bin.new
[ -f /home/peter/sources/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/tplink_archer-c20-v4-kernel.bin -a -f /home/peter/sources/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/root.squashfs ]
/home/peter/sources/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/mktplinkfw2 -H 0xc200004 -W 0x1 -w 0x4 -F "8Mmtk" -T 3 -V "ver. 2.0" -a 0x4 -j -k /home/peter/sources/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/tplink_archer-c20-v4-kernel.bin -r /home/peter/sources/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/root.squashfs -o /home/peter/sources/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/tmp/openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_archer-c20-v4-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin.new -s -e
[mktplinkfw2] rootfs offset aligned to 0x2041900
[mktplinkfw2] *** error: images are too big
make[5]: *** [Makefile:208: /home/peter/sources/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/tmp/openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_archer-c20-v4-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin] Error 255
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/sources/openwrt/target/linux/ramips/image'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:23: install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/sources/openwrt/target/linux/ramips'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:11: install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/sources/openwrt/target/linux'
time: target/linux/install#37.67#4.99#41.22
    ERROR: target/linux failed to build.
make[2]: *** [target/Makefile:25: target/linux/install] Error 1

Is there an way to see what is too big please?

[Borromini]

You can check your list of packages, all packages included in your image are available separately as well. So you can easily see what's a big fish and what's not. I recall such errors stating the amount of kB that exceeded the image limit though, but maybe that's dependent on the manufacturer (since this is TP-Link specific code).

The first things people usually strip are PPP of you don't need it, and LuCI.

[peternikolow]

I've found what was caused this.

Seems that on make menuconfig i setup large packages to be built-in and they're going out of limits for 8MB Flash.
When i change router - same packages are compiled over and over.

Issue is fixed since i remove that packages.