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How-To install Armadeus Software Development Kit for Window$

The toolchain can also be built on a windows system. To do this, Cygwin (a Linux emulation tool) has to be installed first.

Prerequisites for Window$ installation

Install cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com Remark: do not delete the package folder (ftp%xxxx) otherwise the synchronization between the installed packages and the available ones will no more be done !

Choose the default installation (nothing to modify) and add the following packages by clicking one time on the "skip" icon:

• devel -> binutils
• devel -> bison
• devel -> flex
• devel -> gcc-core
• devel -> gcc-g++
• devel -> gdb
• devel -> gettext-devel
• devel -> libncurses-devel
• devel -> make
• devel -> patchutils
• devel -> subversion
• python -> python an interactive interpreter
• system -> util-linux
• web -> wget

Installation

Open a cygwin shell and follow this procedure:

Get Armadeus software

$ svn co svn://ericjarrige.homelinux.org/armadeus/trunk armadeus  --username <<YOUR USERNAME>>  --password <<YOUR PASS>>

A directory named armadeus/ will be created on your hard-disk and will contain all the files you need.

If not, then download installation archive from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/armadeus and detar it (tar -xvf filename).

If it is your first toolchain installation, the following script has to be executed:

$ ./armadeus/host/patches/cygwin/run

in order to patch some cygwin files and add the required fake user for the rootfs generation

Configure Armadeus software

$ cd armadeus/
$ make menuconfig  (or just make the first time).

This will launch the buildroot configuration. in Board Support Option menu, select your armadeus board (apf/apm9328), the RAM size (16/32MB) and so on...

• Choose GDB version 6.3 if you need a debugger
• If you need the LIBSTD C++, add this in the menuconfig/toolchain options/additional gcc options:

--disable-libstdcxx-pch. This will disable the use of the precompiler headers

• Exit the configuration tool and save your config

Launch build

$ make

The toolchain is built automatically. During this procedure, several files are downloaded from the web. Please wait for a while.... it takes at least one hour for the first run!

Known Problems

• compilation crash with uclibc-0.9.28: run make again
• compilation crash with gdb 6.3: run make again
• compilation crash with linux 2.6.12: run make again

Enjoy the result

The generated binary files can be found in the subdirectory armadeus/software/buildroot:

• u-boot.brec (can be used with the bootstrap, if U-Boot is not installed or not working, see BootLoader page)
• u-boot.bin (for download with uboot, see BootLoader "Update u-boot" page)
• linux-kernel-2.6.xx-arm.bin (for download with uboot, see InstallLinux)
• rootfs.arm_nfpu.jffs2 (for download with uboot, see InstallFileSystem?)
• rootfs.arm_nfpu.tar (for an nfsroot, see RootNFS?)

To keep your copy up-to-date within the armadeus tree

$ svn update

This will update your working directory to the latest release.

Note: if "svn update" fails because a directory or a file already exists, then do:

$ rm -rf <this-directory/file>
$ svn update

You can do a:

$ make defconfig

to have the latest features automatically activated and a

$ make menuconfig

to set again your personnal parameters (SDRAM size...).

You have to do a make to rebuild binary files end then upload the binary files to your target.

Note: if definitively everything goes wrong while it worked before the last update. You can apply the following procedure:

$ rm -rf software/buildroot
$ rm Makefile
$ make
$ make