VM dedicated to compiling Deviation

Hey,

ok, then i did misunderstand the part about the icons - i thought i had read that those where embedded in the library but that probably where the toggle icons then; as i said the actual model icons are working:)

So if the current nightly utilizes the windescren layout too i will stay with that for now and recreate a usefull interface from scratch - or maybe i find a usable config to begin with somewhere in the forum.

Thanks a lot for your help and
@sbstnp - Yes an updated vm would be nice, preferably with an autoupdate option like yum or apt (which i believe ubuntu has)

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I am trying to figure out how to compile my source into an emulator file using this setup.

Linux: make TARGET=emu_devoXX (XX = 10, 6, 8, 12) (creates .elf)
Windows: make TARGET=emu_devoXX WINDOWS=1 (creates .exe)

rbe2012 wrote: Linux: make TARGET=emu_devoXX (XX = 10, 6, 8, 12) (creates .elf)
Windows: make TARGET=emu_devoXX WINDOWS=1 (creates .exe)

OK, figured out I needed to be in the ~/deviation/src subdirectory to issue the make command but I get the following error on compilation:

The header file is not in that directory, does it exist somewhere else?

Look at the description PB has made some time ago: https://bitbucket.org/PhracturedBlue/deviation
You have to install portaudio if you try to compile for Windows.

Thanks, somehow I had overlooked that.

Can the VM be used to build the emulator? I am trying out the latest beta 3.1.0-beta8 and hope I can build the emulator to have a try first.

richardclli wrote: Can the VM be used to build the emulator? I am trying out the latest beta 3.1.0-beta8 and hope I can build the emulator to have a try first.

Only the Linux version. I never got to work on cross compiling he emu, sorry.

I have been able to build the emulator for all versions of the devo with the VM once I installed portaudio as suggested above, I do get some variable messages but it builds fine and works on my Windows 7 Ultimate. You do have to run the emulator from the VM and not from Windows Explorer.

hi, new user, here.

I downloaded and installed the ova file. I'm using virtualbox (latest) on win7.

deviation self-update is failing. I'm assuming the repo is different, now?

TIA,

/bryan

Yes. It's at ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/deviationTx/deviation these days. I'm not sure this VM will work, as I believe we've moved to newer version of the arm toolchain that has features that don't exist in this VM. Not sure, though.

I've got a docker container that sorta-kinda works. Well, two. See hub.docker.com/u/mwmeyer/ for them. They both have the same issue: they use the latest version of gcc-arm-embedded, which fails to build 7E firmware since the resulting binary is to big.

thanks for the quick reply.

my target is the 7e and so I need something that works for that. good to know that this vm is out of date, so I won't waste time on it.

what's my best solution for the 7e, then? I'm using 4.0.1 builds and I'd like to start to hack the builds myself. maybe someday even try to decode and implement a protocol. but first things first, I need a build environment.

I can do native linux admin well enough; but I figured for sanity reasons, a common VM would be the easiest for people to support. maybe that's not the case (?)

thx

/bryan

The 7e still fits with this release for me on linux.

That release is the recommended on. However, it won't run on a modern Linux kernel, like the ubuntu LTS 14.04 that docker defaults to for ubuntu. The problem is that they are SYSV binaries, where Linux has moved on to ELF. I haven't really looked into fixing this yet, so possibly I can add something to the image. Or Possibly hexfet can point you to the proper Linux distro to use (which might help me as well).

The other option is to use the cygwin version on a windows platform to build it.

I could offer to help build up a new working VM, if people want.

if I need to go back to an older linux distro, that's fine. I think a VM is the right thing to do, though, rather than bare metal. and of course, it lets windows people do builds.

if I can avoid windows, though (even cygwin) I'll do it. I've been doing linux work since about 1995 so I'm quite capable on the linux side of things. but I am new to ARM and the toolchain, so I might need to know what the magic versions of the various tools are, as well as some way to verify that the resultant builds are clean. once I can get the tools all setup, I'll be happy to document what I find.

on my own 7e, I removed the walkera rf module and its annoying me that I have to press OK every power-on to dismiss the error dialog that's one reason I want a custom build. and if I comment out all of the walkera cyrf (?) module stuff, I may have more room left for my own playing around.

Well I'm glad no one told me because I'm running ubuntu 15.10 (32 bit) The only thing I do is set the CROSS environment variable when building for the tx hardware. The linux tarball is still in my downloads dir so I think that's what I installed. Probably was still on 14.something when installed.

Hi, I haven't maintained this for quite a while since nowadays it's much easier to install the toolchain. So, sorry about that.
But, if enough interest arise I will do checkup and update on the VM.

Hmm. Maybe it's a 64 bit vs. 32 bit issue.

The docker container is really intended for use in things like a web app for doing builds, CI, and such like. Personally, I think it's a bit easier to use than a vm for local builds, but neither is as good as a proper local builds environment.

is there a HOWTO on setting up tools in a non-VM environment? I'm game to try that, too.

The README covers the tools you need. A lot depends on what you want to build. If it's just firmware images, it's make, python, perl and the gcc-arm-embedded/gcc-arm-none-eabi (they changed the name recently). You'll also need gcc 4.8 or better if you want to build the emulator. Clang didn't work last time I tried it if that's your system compiler. To build the windows emulator, you'll need the mingw toolchain plus windows builds of the fltk & portaudio packages.

The second docker image - deviaitonPlus - provides all the tools to build the windows emulator, a Linux emulator, and the manuals. The docker files provide the list of commands to run on ubuntu to install all the bits that needs.