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is an open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic. The main components are Linux, util-linux, musl, and BusyBox. All components have been optimized to be small enough to fit into the limited storage and memory available in home routers. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt)


== Building OpenWRT with a nix shell ==
== ImageBuilder ==
Download [https://gist.github.com/Mic92/b59054188c595e5652cacf50485583e0 this Gist] as your <code>shell.nix</code> in the same folder as openwrt and run <code>nix-shell</code> in this folder.
 
OpenWRT provides different possibilities (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/imagebuilder_frontends) to build custom images for your devices. There is also a little helper tool suggested on IRC called "autobuild" (https://johannes.truschnigg.info/code/openwrt_autobuild/) which helps to manage/keep track of image-configurations for your devices. It's also working with the nix-shell below - '''please note''' that there is currently some misbehavior when "make_clean" is set to "True" the system says build is triggered but there are no files/logs/processes running then.
 
=== Using ImageBuilder in nix-shell ===
Get a copy of: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-environments/blob/master/envs/openwrt/shell.nix
 
{{warning|Currently (2023-04-17), the openwrt build fails with a "/usr/lib/libuuid.so: file not recognized: file format not recognized".}}
 
Currently (01/2022) I've tested builds using nixpkgs-21.11 and unstable, and both worked. This could possibly break/behave different in the future so you can e.g. pin to an older nixpkgs-revision by replacing the first lines of the above code with this:
 
<syntaxHighlight lang=nix>
{ opkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:                         
                                                         
let                                                       
  pkgs = import (opkgs.fetchFromGitHub {                 
    owner = "NixOS";
    repo = "nixpkgs";           
    rev = "<revision>";     
    sha256 = "<hash>";                                                 
  }) {};
...
</syntaxHighlight>
 
=== Using ImageBuilder in a Nix Derivation ===
 
See https://github.com/astro/nix-openwrt-imagebuilder/
 
 
== OpenWRT buildroot ==
 
It is possible to build OpenWRT from source with buildroot under NixOS too.
 
You can use the following dev shell with the official OpenWRT build guide:
 
* https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem
 
Make sure you disable the nixpkgs compiler hardening, as the OpenWRT toolchain sources aren't as clean as required by nixpkgs defaults.
 
<syntaxHighlight lang=nix>
{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
  };
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, ... }: {
    devShells."x86_64-linux".default = let
      pkgs = import nixpkgs {
        system = "x86_64-linux";
      };
    in pkgs.mkShell {
      nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
        git
        pkg-config
        ncurses
        unzip
        python3
        cdrtools
      ];
      hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
    };
  };
}
</syntaxHighlight>

Latest revision as of 10:49, 28 December 2023

is an open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic. The main components are Linux, util-linux, musl, and BusyBox. All components have been optimized to be small enough to fit into the limited storage and memory available in home routers. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt)

ImageBuilder

OpenWRT provides different possibilities (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/imagebuilder_frontends) to build custom images for your devices. There is also a little helper tool suggested on IRC called "autobuild" (https://johannes.truschnigg.info/code/openwrt_autobuild/) which helps to manage/keep track of image-configurations for your devices. It's also working with the nix-shell below - please note that there is currently some misbehavior when "make_clean" is set to "True" the system says build is triggered but there are no files/logs/processes running then.

Using ImageBuilder in nix-shell

Get a copy of: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-environments/blob/master/envs/openwrt/shell.nix

Warning: Currently (2023-04-17), the openwrt build fails with a "/usr/lib/libuuid.so: file not recognized: file format not recognized".

Currently (01/2022) I've tested builds using nixpkgs-21.11 and unstable, and both worked. This could possibly break/behave different in the future so you can e.g. pin to an older nixpkgs-revision by replacing the first lines of the above code with this:

{ opkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:                           
                                                           
let                                                        
  pkgs = import (opkgs.fetchFromGitHub {                   
    owner = "NixOS";
    repo = "nixpkgs";            
    rev = "<revision>";      
    sha256 = "<hash>";                                                   
  }) {};
...

Using ImageBuilder in a Nix Derivation

See https://github.com/astro/nix-openwrt-imagebuilder/


OpenWRT buildroot

It is possible to build OpenWRT from source with buildroot under NixOS too.

You can use the following dev shell with the official OpenWRT build guide:

Make sure you disable the nixpkgs compiler hardening, as the OpenWRT toolchain sources aren't as clean as required by nixpkgs defaults.

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
  };
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, ... }: {
    devShells."x86_64-linux".default = let
      pkgs = import nixpkgs {
        system = "x86_64-linux";
      };
    in pkgs.mkShell {
      nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
        git
        pkg-config
        ncurses
        unzip
        python3
        cdrtools
      ];
      hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
    };
  };
}