Compiling Snort for OpenWRT

Question

I'm trying to install Snort on an OpenWRT VM. I followed the instructions on the Snort homepage and it looks like it requires the make tool for compiling the code:

./configure --enable-sourcefire; make; sudo make install

Problem is - I don't have make on the OpenWRT (and in this case there's no Snort distribution for OpenWRT).

I'm trying to understand how to install make on OpenWRT, but can't find the correct way to do it so far.

Answer 1

Turns out the easiest way is to use opkg which I tried at the beginning as follows:

opkg install snort

But the snort package was not found. But after I updated opkg it worked:

opkg update
opkg install snort