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README.md

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 Scripts / docs for Maxwell wifi meshing.
 
+HOWTO build Maxwell software:
+
+* [](docs/BUILD.md)
+
+Info about Maxwell hardware nodes:
+
+* [](docs/HARDWARE.md)
+
+Spreadsheet with details about a particular implementation:
+
+* [](docs/consumemax-network.ods)
+
 # Maxwell Upstream
 
 Source code:
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 Quickstart Build Docs:
 
 * https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/quickstart-build-images
+

docs/BUILD.md

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+# HOWTO Build Maxwell
+
+This documents how to build the Maxwell meshing software
+with OpenWRT.
+
+Base system is Debian Bullseye (11/testing) on ppc64le architecture.
+Should also work fine on x86_64.
+
+# Build thang
+Do.
+
+OpenWRT build system:
+
+* https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/build-system/start
+
+## Install Dependencies
+
+Dependencies for other distros are listed here:
+
+* https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/build-system/install-buildsystem#examp
+
+
+Get current:
+
+```
+apt update
+```
+
+Upstream command suggests for Debian:
+
+```
+apt install build-essential ccache ecj fastjar file g++ gawk \
+gettext git java-propose-classpath libelf-dev libncurses5-dev \
+libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev python python2.7-dev python3 unzip wget \
+python3-distutils python3-setuptools python3-dev rsync subversion swig time \
+xsltproc zlib1g-dev
+```
+
+Full docs list more dependencies for full list, that work with Debian Bullseye:
+```
+apt install								\
+	asciidoc \
+	bash \
+	binutils \
+	bzip2 \
+	flex \
+	git-core \
+	g++ \
+	gcc \
+	util-linux \
+	gawk \
+	help2man \
+	intltool \
+	libelf-dev \
+	zlib1g-dev \
+	make \
+	libncurses5-dev \
+	libssl-dev \
+	patch \
+	perl-modules \
+	python2-dev \
+	python3-dev \
+	unzip \
+	wget \
+	gettext \
+	xsltproc \
+	zlib1g-dev \
+	libboost-dev \
+	libxml-parser-perl \
+	libusb-dev \
+	bin86 \
+	bcc \
+	sharutils
+```