This repository contains build information for OpenSwitch OPX.

There are two ways to get the image:

• Download and install binaries — see Installation below for complete information, or
• Build from scratch — see the step-by-step instructions below to build the project.

• Intel multi-core
• Ubuntu 16.04 or later (desktop edition with Python installed)
• 20G available free disk space

Updated environment: sudo apt-get update

• GIT: sudo apt-get install git
• Repo: sudo apt-get install repo
• apt-utils: sudo apt-get install apt-utils
• Docker: sudo apt-get install docker.io

To get the source files for the OpenSwitch OPX repositories, run the commands in an empty directory (root directory). For example: ~/dev/opx/:

repo init -u https://github.com/open-switch/opx-manifest.git
repo sync

The repo sync command downloads all of the source files that you need to build OpenSwitch. In addition to the source files, you will also need some binary libraries for the SAI. The SAI is currently not open sourced entirely, as it is based on Broadcom's SDK and there is no open source SAI implementation from Broadcom at this time.

All build scripts are found in the opx-build repo and will be downloaded as part of the above repo sync.

Setup your path to include opx-build/scripts folder (if you plan to run this command often, you could optionally add it to the .bashrc):

cd opx-build/scripts
export PATH=$PATH:$PWD

To setup your Docker OPX image, use the script in the opx-build/scripts folder called opx_setup. This script builds a Docker container called docker-opx which will be used by the build scripts:

cd opx-build/scripts/
./opx_setup

Go to the root directory where you installed the OPX repositories and run the OPX Docker container:

cd ~/dev/opx
opx-build/scripts/opx_run

To build a single repository, go to the repository and build. For example, to build opx-logging:

opx-dev@077f7b30f8ef:/# cd /mnt
opx-dev@077f7b30f8ef:/mnt# opx-build/scripts/opx_build opx-logging

Issue the opx_build all command from the root directory to build all repos and create packages in the same root directory.

opx-dev@077f7b30f8ef:/# cd /mnt
opx-dev@077f7b30f8ef:/mnt# opx-build/scripts/opx_build all

Once all of the repositories have been built, you can install the created ONIE Debian x86_64 image. You can then install all of the build packages, along with other Debian files you downloaded earlier in the root directory.

See Install OpenSwitch OPX on Dell S6000 Platform for complete information.

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