Tinc and OpenWRT

[Jonathan Clark]

Greetings.

I'm new to tinc, but have so far managed to get a couple laptops and a
hosted server all connected.  They're working as expected, running
Tinc 1.1-pre11, which I compiled from source.

Next I want to move on to adding my home router into the mix.  My
routers run OpenWRT.  I don't have experience compiling anything from
source for OpenWRT, but OpenWRT has Tinc 1.0.25 prepackaged.

With that in mind, which direction should I move next?  I think my options are:

(option a)
Switch my existing/working Tinc setup to using RSA keys (instead of
Ed25519) so they can talk to the 1.0.25 packages available on OpenWRT,
and then go on to figure out how to get the already-packaged Tinc
1.0.25 working on my router.

or
(option b)
Take a detour and learn how to cross-compile things for OpenWRT.  Use
this new knowledge to install Tinc 1.1pre11 onto my router.  Feel
accomplished.

or something else?

I'm exploring this mainly for the fun of figuring it out, so there's
no deadline or even a business reason to succeed.  Does that suggest I
should tackle option a, and then go ahead and try option b, resulting
in twice the fun and sense of accomplishment?

And, overall, how difficult are each of these options?

Thanks, by the way, for all your work.  From what I've seen so far,
this project is pretty impressive.

Jonathan
Kingston, New York, USA