Noob question on adding programs to Busybox

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Mit, 2010-02-10 at 10:02 -0700, Pete Helgren wrote:
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> Here is the situation: I have a device that has Busybox installed 
> (BusyBox v1.1.3 (2007.10.23-16:18+0000) Built-in shell (ash) ).  What is 
> missing in this particular build on this device is any kind of http 
> server.  I want to be able to send a request to the device and have it 
The (current) busybox-1.15*.rpm on Fedora 12 has an httpd. Usual
small/embedded HTTP servers are boa, thttpd and/or lighttpd. There are
others but I don´t know them.

> return a file to me.  After looking at the options, it seems that an 
> http server, with maybe a cgi app that parses and returns the data might 
> be the easiest way to do it.  I could probably do it with FTP as well.  
Yes, sounds like a classical CGI-App (oder FastCGI).
> The whole idea is to send a request for data, query the sqlite DB and 
> send back a file of the data.
The next question is how to implement that CGI-program/script.

> So, finally, the question: Can I compile an application on Busybox and 
> have it work?  Or, do I need to follow the cross compile instructions 
Should be. If calling "/bin/busybox" - or wherever it lives on your
system - doesn´t reveal "httpd", you can rebuild busybox and include the
httpd applet.
If the above version is too old, perhaps you can replace it with a newer
one. That might be tricky and risky BTW (and cross-compiling a complete
independent http server maybe the risk-less way to go).

	Bernd
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