Early notes - building Asuswrt-Merlin under WSL2

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt update

sudo apt-get install libtool-bin cmake libproxy-dev uuid-dev liblzo2-dev autoconf automake bash bison \
bzip2 diffutils file flex m4 g++ gawk groff-base libncurses5-dev libtool libslang2 make patch perl pkg-config shtool \
subversion tar texinfo zlib1g zlib1g-dev git gettext libexpat1-dev libssl-dev cvs gperf unzip \
python libxml-parser-perl gcc-multilib gconf-editor libxml2-dev g++-multilib gitk libncurses5 mtd-utils \
libncurses5-dev libvorbis-dev git autopoint autogen sed build-essential intltool libglib2.0-dev \
xutils-dev lib32z1-dev lib32stdc++6 xsltproc gtk-doc-tools

sudo apt install libelf1:i386

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/RMerl/am-toolchains
git clone https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

mkdir amng-build
rsync -a --del asuswrt-merlin.ng/ amng-build

# Toolchains
sudo ln -s ~/am-toolchains/brcm-arm-hnd /opt/toolchains

echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY:/opt/toolchains/crosstools-arm-gcc-5.3-linux-4.1-glibc-2.22-binutils-2.25/usr/lib" >> ~/.profile
echo "export TOOLCHAIN_BASE=/opt/toolchains" >> ~/.profile
echo "PATH=\$PATH:/opt/toolchains/crosstools-arm-gcc-5.3-linux-4.1-glibc-2.22-binutils-2.25/usr/bin" >> ~/.profile
echo "PATH=\$PATH:/opt/toolchains/crosstools-aarch64-gcc-5.3-linux-4.1-glibc-2.22-binutils-2.25/usr/bin" >> ~/.profile

echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY:/opt/toolchains/crosstools-arm-gcc-5.5-linux-4.1-glibc-2.26-binutils-2.28.1/usr/lib" >> ~/.profile
echo "PATH=\$PATH:/opt/toolchains/crosstools-arm-gcc-5.5-linux-4.1-glibc-2.26-binutils-2.28.1/usr/bin" >> ~/.profile
echo "PATH=\$PATH:/opt/toolchains/crosstools-aarch64-gcc-5.5-linux-4.1-glibc-2.26-binutils-2.28.1/usr/bin" >> ~/.profile

sudo ln -s ~/am-toolchains/brcm-arm-sdk/hndtools-arm-linux-2.6.36-uclibc-4.5.3 /opt/brcm-arm
ln -s ~/am-toolchains/brcm-arm-sdk  ~/asuswrt-merlin.ng/release/src-rt-6.x.4708/toolchains
echo "PATH=\$PATH:/opt/brcm-arm/bin" >> ~/.profile

exit


#Re-run bash (so it will have all the proper paths set through the updated profile)
cd $HOME


#For RT-AC68U:
cd amng-build/release/src-rt-6.x.4708/
git checkout mainline
time make rt-ac68u