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How-To install Armadeus Software Development Kit for Linux

The installation was successfully tested on the following distributions:

• Debian Sarge
• Fedora Core 3 & 4
• SuSE 10.1
• Ubuntu Dapper Drake
• Xubuntu Edgy Eft

Prerequisites for Linux installation

For Debian based distrib some additional packages are required. You can use the following command to get them:

$ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake bison flex g++ gettext libncurses5-dev subversion texinfo wget zlib1g-dev 

Open a shell and follow this procedure:

Get Armadeus software

• If you are a user:

then download the installation archive from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/armadeus and detar it wherever you want.

$ tar xjvf armadeusArchiveName.tar.bz2

• If you are a registered developper:

then download the installation archive from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/armadeus and detar it wherever you want.

$ tar xjvf armadeusArchiveName.tar.bz2

This will change soon as we are currently migrating our SVN database to SourceForge

• If you are an SVN integrator:

check out the required files from the SVN repository:

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

Don't worry, SVN server is located in Switzerland so it may be slow... :-)

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

Configure Armadeus software

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

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

• Exit the configuration tool by saving 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!
The downloaded files are put in the downloads/ directory. If you have several views we advise you to put all the downloaded files in /local/armadeus/downloads (for example) and configure buildroot to use this directory as "download dir" for all your views.
We advise you too to burn a CD-Rom with all the files in downloads/ in the case you want to install the development tools on several systems.

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 you again you 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

Enjoy!