newRPL: [UPDATED April 27-2017] Firmware for testing available for download

[Claudio L.]

(10-03-2016 05:20 PM)Bruno Wrote:  Hi,

is there a few note anywhere that describe the pre-requisite and how to compile the newRPL ROM please ?

I tried a 'make rom.bin' under the /newrpl-source/firmware directory,
but make can't find a directive to build fw_base.c

Thanks

EDIT : The project seems to be created with Qt, I suppose the makefiles require some modifications to work without Qt ?

The steps are quite simple, the following should work on Linux/FreeBSD:
* Install gcc or Clang compiler.
* Install Qt with Qt Creator (for easier coding).
* Install arm-none-eabi-gcc and arm-none-eabi-binutils
* Install libelf-devel package (if it's not already installed).
* Open Qt Creator, first you need to build the tools: go to the newrpl/tools directory and open the project elf2rom, choose the "Release" version, edit the make steps to add a "make install" step at the end.
* Do a build-all, look at the output to make sure the executable was copied properly.
* Now do the same with the other tools.
* Now go back to the main directory, open the project newrpl-comp.pro. Same thing (select Release, add a make install step, then build-all).
* Now close all, open newrpl-fw.pro, edit the .pro file as needed to change the folders where you have arm-none-eabi-gcc (they change according to version, look at the file).
* Hit build and everything should work fine, if there are no errors, you should see the last line "Binary newrplfw.bin written".