Setting up a ReadyNAS Development Environment

Requirements

1. RAIDiator-4.00c1-p2 or later.
2. The APT utility addon. Download and install it using the Frontview web UI under System -> Update -> Local Update.
3. The EnableRootSSH addon. Again, install using the Frontview web UI under System -> Update -> Local Update. This will allow you to SSH in to the ReadyNAS and bring up a shell command prompt.

Now what?

After those requirements are met, you should be able to run the standard Debian command “apt-get” to download and install packages for everything you need for development, including the headers for the non-standard packages used for the ReadyNAS.

Example:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install libc6-dev
# apt-get install gcc
# apt-get install gdb
# apt-get install libtag1-dev
# apt-get install uuid-dev

WARNING!

Please note that you can get your ReadyNAS into peril easily by overriding some of the system libraries and utilities. Do not do your development on a system you don’t have a backup of as you may end up re-installing the firmware or worse yet, doing a factory default.

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