[ipxe-devel] Newbie Information required: Building a Compile environment...

[mwhelton at gmail.com]

Thanks Thomas, I will get this going and see...


On Jan 25, 2011 5:14am, Thomas Miletich <thomas.miletich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello

> building iPXE doesn't require a very complicated setup.

> Most of the tools should be pre-installed on every distribution, but

> you might have to install gcc and binutils.

> I don't use SuSE myself, but a quick google search revealed that executing



> zypper install -t pattern devel_C_C++



> as root should download and install all the packages required for C

> and C++ development. This should be sufficient for iPXE.

> Just cd into the src/ directory and type 'make'. It will complain

> anyway if there's something missing, so you can install it.



> To get rom-o-matic working on your own server you need a running

> apache server with PHP installed. Simply copy iPXE somewhere in your

> wwwroot directory and put the rom-o-matic files into the iPXE

> directory. There is a config file in the rom-o-matic files where you

> may have to alter the iPXE source path.

> Then simply access the URL to your rom-o-matic setup and you should be

> good to go.

> It's a good idea to run 'make' in the iPXE directory before you access

> rom-o-matic though, as the first request could timeout otherwise.

> In older rom-o-matic versions you also had to manually build 'make

> bin/NIC', but I believe that is done automatically on newer versions.



> Hth

> Thomas



> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:37 AM, mwhelton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hey all,

> >

> > I am an experienced Windows/Unix/VMware administrator but compiling is

> > something I never got around to doing. So... were can I get a  
> step-by-step

> > tutorial on how to setup an iPXE compile environment? I was planning on

> > using OpenSUSE 11 (I have 32 and 64bit, but I can use almost  
> anything...)

> > preferably with the Rom-O-Matic web front end?

> >

> > I realize this is something of a project, but any help would be greatly

> > appreciated.

> >

> > Best,

> >

> > Matthew Helton

> > Bentonville, Arkansas

> > _______________________________________________

> > ipxe-devel mailing list

> > ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org

> > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel

> >

> >

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/attachments/20110125/2009a516/attachment.htm>