DD-WRT Development in VirtualBox with Debian X64

Installing Debian x64

In Virtualbox, I am installing the 7.2.0 Wheezy 3 DVD set and afterwards running an apt-get update

Preparing development environment for DD-WRT

After ensuring all the updates, we want to install the development libaries

I'm running as root because this box will not have any outside incoming connections anyways

apt-get install gcc g++ binutils patch bzip2 flex bison make gettext unzip zlib1g-dev libc6 subversion

Downloading DD-WRT Toolchains

mkdir ~/Toolchains
cd ~/Toolchains
wget ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/toolchains/toolchains.tar.xz

if for some reason, your download doesn't finish (power outage, inet outage) just add --continue after the wget and it will resume where it left off assuming you are in the same directory as your target download.

Uncompress the toolchains

tar -xpvJf toolchains.tar.xz

Downloading Development Code

mkdir ~/DEV
cd ~/DEV
svn co svn://svn.dd-wrt.com/DD-WRT .

This may take a bit. After it gets done, run it again to ensure you have updated files that have been changed while downloading the first time. Then you should be ready.

Copying DEV and toolchains (Optional)

I do this because i have a slow connection, but copy toolchains and DEV to a safe directory before messing with anything

Getting Ready for Compile

For this, i'm using my Asus RT-N12/D1 ( https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_RT-N12_rev_D1 ), it has a Broadcom 5357 CPU. It is also not in the supported router database (currently) on dd-wrt.com in which I hope to rectify on this Wiki. It's a pretty decent router for the money and it also has 8MB flash so the megas should work.