sown/builder repository overview

⁠SOWN-at-Home Firmware Builder

This repository contains the custom SOWN packages for SOWN-at-Home nodes, as well as a build system to compile firmware images.

As the firmware is based on OpenWRT⁠, it makes use of their ImageBuilder system⁠.

⁠Building the firmware

Firstly, you will need a system with the required dependencies:

• buildroot-dev - A SOWN server with the required dependencies. or;
• sown-builder Docker Image - A docker image, based on Debian Buster, with the required dependencies.

Simply run make inside the main directory of this repo.

⁠Using Docker

The docker image is defined in the Dockerfile in this repo.

You can build the docker image by running docker build -t sown-builder .

It is also built in the cloud by Docker Hub⁠. It can be accessed as sown/builder.

You can then make use of the image by running docker run -it -v /path/to/repo:/path/in/container sown/builder:latest.