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- Installing Cygwin
- Download and Unpack
- Semi-Optional apps/ Package
- Installation Directories with Spaces in the Path
- Instantiating "Canned" Configurations
- NuttX Configuration Tool
- Finding Selections in the Configuration Menus
- Reveal Hidden Configuration Options
- Comparing Two Configurations
- Incompatibilities with Older Configurations
- Cross-Development Toolchains
- NuttX Buildroot Toolchain
o Shells
- Build Targets and Options
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- Native Windows Build
- Installing GNUWin32
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o Cygwin Build Problems
- Strange Path Problems
- Window Native Toolchain Issues
NuttX may be installed and built on a Linux system or on a Windows
system if Cygwin is installed. Installing Cygwin on your Windows PC
is simple, but time consuming. See http://www.cygwin.com/ for
installation instructions. Basically you just need to download a
tiny setup.exe program and it does the real, internet installation
for you.
NOTE: NuttX can also be installed and built on a native Windows
system, but with some potential tool-related issues (see the
1. Install at C:\cygwin
2. Install EVERYTHING: "Only the minimal base packages from the
Cygwin distribution are installed by default. Clicking on categories
and packages in the setup.exe package installation screen will
provide you with the ability to control what is installed or updated.
Clicking on the "Default" field next to the "All" category will
provide you with the opportunity to install every Cygwin package.
Be advised that this will download and install hundreds of megabytes
to your computer."
If you use the "default" installation, you will be missing many
of the Cygwin utilities that you will need to build NuttX. The
build will fail in numerous places because of missing packages.
NOTE: You don't really have to install EVERYTHING but I cannot
answer the question "Then what should I install?" I don't know
the answer to that and so will continue to recommend installing
EVERYTHING.
After installing Cygwin, you will get lots of links for installed
tools and shells. I use the RXVT native shell. It is fast and reliable
and does not require you to run the Cygwin X server (which is neither
fast nor reliable). Unless otherwise noted, the rest of these
instructions assume that you are at a bash command line prompt in
either Linux or in Cygwin shell.
UPDATE: The last time I installed EVERTHING, the download was
about 5GiB. The server I selected was also very slow so it took
over a day to do the whole install!
Download and Unpack
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Download and unpack the NuttX tarball. If you are reading this, then
you have probably already done that. After unpacking, you will end
up with a directory called nuttx-version (where version is the NuttX
version number). You might want to rename that directory nuttx to
match the various instructions in the documentation and some scripts
in the source tree.
Semi-Optional apps/ Package
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All NuttX libraries and example code used to be in included within
the NuttX source tree. As of NuttX-6.0, this application code was
moved into a separate tarball, the apps tarball. If you are just
beginning with NuttX, then you will want to download the versioned
apps tarball along with the NuttX tarball. If you already have your
own product application directory, then you may not need the apps
tarball.
It is call "Semi-optional" because if you don't have some apps/
directory, NuttX will *fail* to build!
Download then unpack the apps tarball in the same directory where you
unpacked the NuttX tarball. After you unpack the apps tarball, you
will have a new directory called apps-version (where the version
should exactly match the version of the NuttX tarball). Again, you
might want to rename the directory to simply apps/ to match what
you read in the documentation
After unpacking the apps tarball, you will have two directories side
by side like this:
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+----+----+
| |
nuttx/ apps/
This is important because the NuttX build will expect to find the
apps directory in that (default) location. That default location
can be changed by editing your NuttX configuration file, but that
Installation Directories with Spaces in the Path
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The nuttx build directory should reside in a path that contains no
spaces in any higher level directory name. For example, under
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Cygwin, your home directory might be formed from your first and last
names like: "/home/First Last". That will cause strange errors when
the make system tries to build.
[Actually, that problem is probably not to difficult to fix. Some
I work around spaces in the home directory name, by creating a
new directory that does not contain any spaces, such as /home/nuttx.
Then I install NuttX in /home/nuttx and always build from
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Downloading from Repositories
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Cloning the Repository
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The current NuttX du jour is available in from a GIT repository. Cloning
instructions are available here:
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https://sourceforge.net/p/nuttx/git
Configuring the Cone
Set your identity:
git config --global user.name "My Name"
git config --global user.email my.name@example.com
Colorized diffs are much easier to read:
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.interactive auto
git config --global color.status auto
Checkout other settings
git config --list
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Cloning NuttX Inside Cygwin
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If you are cloning the NuttX repository, it is recommended to avoid
automatic end of lines conversions by git. These conversions may break
some scripts like configure.sh. Before cloning, do the following:
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git config --global core.autocrlf false
Notes about Header Files
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When a GCC toolchain is built, it must be built against a C library.
The compiler together with the contents of the C library completes the
C language definition and provides the complete C development
environment. NuttX provides its own, built-in C library. So the
complete, consistent C language definition for use with NuttX comes from
the combination of the compiler and the header files provided by the
NuttX C library.
When a GCC toolchain is built, it incorporates the C library header
files into the compiler internal directories and, in this way, the C
library really becomes a part of the toolchain. If you use the NuttX
buildroot toolchain as described below under under "NuttX Buildroot
Toolchain", your GCC toolchain will build against the NuttX C library
and will incorporate the NuttX C library header files as part of the
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