building example programs

[Gedare Bloom]

Hi Andrew,

Have you installed the compiled RTEMS and BSPs via "make install" e.g.
in your ~/development/rtems/b-beagle directory?

The waf script will only find BSPs that are installed in the directory
you tell it to look e.g. ~/development/rtems/4.11

Gedare

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Andrew Harris <andrew.unit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    Thanks for the useful information.  I'm still having a heck of a time
> getting the examples to build.  I can't seem to get my "waf configure" line
> to work out.  I got RTEMS working from the nice article on this site:
>
> http://www.shrike-systems.com/beagleboard-xm-beaglebone-black-and-everything-else-rtems-on-the-beagles.html
>
> But I fear I don't understand now how to specify the waf configure line.
> I've got it so that it doesn't complain about the RTEMS path, nor does it
> complain about the RTEMS tools path:
>
> ~/development/rtems/rtems-tools/waf configure
> --rtems=$HOME/development/rtems/4.11
> --rtems-tools=$HOME/development/rtems/4.11
>
> But I can't seem to figure out how to tell it to use the beagleboneblack
> BSP.  I have added some print statements into the rtems.py file which I
> believe is used by the waf build system and it doesn't seem to see any bsps
> at all in the paths I've specified above.
>
> However, from the website article, it seems to build in such a way as to
> create a b-beagle directory, and deep inside that directory I do see a
> directory that contains a ".pc" file, which I presume is a key file for the
> BSP:
>
> development/rtems/b-beagle/arm-rtems4.11/c/beagleboneblack/arm-rtems4.11-beagleboneblack.pc
>
> But I can't seem to figure out how to combine this knowledge with the
> directories that are required for the waf configure step.
>
> Has anyone gotten stuck here before?  If so, any help would be appreciated!
>
> thanks,
> -andrew
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> The examples located in testsuites are intended to be compiled with
>> RTEMS and will not work by copying them elsewhere. For compiling an
>> application, you should have a look at the examples-v2.git repository
>> [1]. That should have more info about using RTEMS_MAKEFILE_PATH, and
>> also has a newer approach to compiling applications for RTEMS that
>> uses the Waf build system. I highly recommend checking out the
>> waf-based approach to compiling applications as it has some great
>> features, albeit at a slight learning curve.
>>
>> Gedare
>>
>> [1] https://git.rtems.org/examples-v2/
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Andrew Harris <andrew.unit at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,  I'm trying to figure out how to start a new RTEMS application.
>> > I
>> > thought I would start by looking at the ticker example.  I copied the
>> > ticker
>> > example but I am not sure how to compile it.  I am not an expert in
>> > autoconf/automake and could use some assistance on how to get started.
>> > I
>> > think I figured out how to configure my RTEMS_MAKEFILE_PATH variable,
>> > but
>> > the only two files in the ticker example are Makefile.am and
>> > Makefile.in,
>> > and I don't know what to do next to build it.  Any help would be
>> > appreciated!
>> >
>> > -andrew
>> >
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