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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Start the RIOT</title>
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<link href="riot.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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<body>
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<h1>Start the RIOT ‐ Getting started with RIOT</h1>
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<h1>Start the RIOT - Getting started with RIOT</h1>
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<div id="toc">
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<ol start="0">
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@ -26,21 +27,16 @@ system" target="_blank">http://git-scm.com/</a>)</li>
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<li>A toolchain (see <a href="#toolchains" title="How to install and configure
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the toolchains">Setup the toolchain</a>)</li>
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</ul>
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<p class="todo">TODO: Collect the requirements.</p>
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<h2 id="getcode">Get the source code</h2>
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You can obtain RIOT either by cloning the git repositories or download the latest tarballs.
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<p>You may not to install additional packages for particular toolchains or flashing tools. For the MSB-A2 check the requirements in the <a href="https://github.com/RIOT-OS/boards/wiki/For-MSB-A2" title="MSB-A2 Toolchain Installation" target="_blank">Github Wiki</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="getcode">Get the source code</h2>
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<p>You can obtain RIOT either by cloning the git repositories or download the latest tarballs.</p>
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<h3>Using the git repository</h3>
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In order to obtain RIOT from the official <a
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href="https://github.com/RIOT-OS/" title="RIOT at GitHub" target="_blank">GitHub</a>
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repositories, please perform the following commands:
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<p>In order to obtain RIOT from the official <a href="https://github.com/RIOT-OS/" title="RIOT at GitHub" target="_blank">GitHub</a> repositories, please perform the following commands:</p>
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<h4>The kernel</h4>
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<pre>
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git clone git://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT.git
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</pre>
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<h4>The platform configurations</h4>
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<pre>
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git clone git://github.com/RIOT-OS/boards.git
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<p class="todo">TODO: Build tarballs!</p>
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<h2 id="toolchains">Setup the toolchain</h2>
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You can either build RIOT for one of the supported hardware platforms (check
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<p>You can either build RIOT for one of the supported hardware platforms (check
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our <a href="http://riot-os.org/new/#usage" title="RIOT usage"
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target="_blank">website</a>) or try the native port. As a special platform,
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you will find a CPU and board called <i>native</i> in the repository. This
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target allows you to run RIOT as a process on Linux on most supported hardware
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platforms. Just set <tt>CPU</tt> and <tt>BOARD</tt> to native in your
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project's Makefile, call <tt>make</tt>, and execute the resulting elf-file.
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project's Makefile, call <tt>make</tt>, and execute the resulting elf-file.</p>
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<h3>For ARM</h3>
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Download and install <a href="https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+download"
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title="GCC ARM Embedded" target="_blank">GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors</a> according
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to the information provided on the website.
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<p class="todo">TODO: Check if this is working with all supported ARM
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architectures</p>
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<p>The recommended toolchain for RIOT on ARM is an older version (2008q3) of CodeBench (formerly CodeSourcery) from <a href="http://www.mentor.com/" title="Company Web Page">Mentor Graphics</a>. It can be obtained <a class="download" href="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/release642" title="CodeSourcery 2008q3">here</a>.</p>
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<h4>Linux</h4>
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<p>Direct links for Linux are </p>
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<p class="download"><a href="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/package3688/public/arm-none-eabi/arm-2008q3-66-arm-none-eabi.bin" title="Installer for Linux version">http://www.codesourcery.com/.../arm-2008q3-66-arm-none-eabi.bin</a> (with installer)</p>
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<p> or</p>
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<p class="download"><a href="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/package3686/public/arm-none-eabi/arm-2008q3-66-arm-none-eabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2" title="Binary archive for Linux">http://www.codesourcery.com/.../arm-2008q3-66-arm-none-eabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2</a>.</p>
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<p><em>Please note</em> that you will have to add the directory with executables (<tt>arm-none-eabi-gcc</tt>, <tt>arm-none-eabi-as</tt> etc.) to your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)" title="Wikipedia article about the PATH variable" target="_blank">PATH variable</a> in both cases.
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On a typical shell like bash or zsh this can be done using export, e.g.</p>
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<pre>
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export PATH=${PATH}:/path/to/arm-none-eabi-gcc
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</pre>
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<h4>Windows</h4>
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<p>The direct link for the Windows version is</p>
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<p class="download"><a href="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/package3689/public/arm-none-eabi/arm-2008q3-66-arm-none-eabi.exe" title="Installer for Windows version">http://www.codesourcery.com/.../arm-2008q3-66-arm-none-eabi.exe</a>.</p>
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<h4>Mac OS X</h4>
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<p>There is a tutorial to install the CodeSourcery toolchain on Mac OS X: <a href="https://gist.github.com/errordeveloper/1854389" title="CodeSourcery ARM (2008q3) bare-metal toolchain on OS X">https://gist.github.com/errordeveloper/1854389</a>.</p>
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<h4>Build the toolchain from sources</h4>
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<p>There is also the possibility to build the toolchain from the sources, allowing for newer versions of GCC, binutils, and Newlib. A script to build a toolchain for the MSB-A2 is available in the RIOT git repository at <br>
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<code>dist/tools/toolchains/build_gnuarm.sh</code>.</p>
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<h3>For MSP430</h3>
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Download and install <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mspgcc/"
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title="MSPGCC" target="_blank">GCC toolchain for MSP430</a> according
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to the information provided on the website.
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<p>Download and install <a class="download" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mspgcc/"title="MSPGCC" target="_blank">GCC toolchain for MSP430</a> according to the information provided on the website.</p>
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<h3>For the native port</h3>
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In order to build RIOT for the native port, you just need the <a
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href="http://gcc.gnu.org/" title="GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection" target="_blank">GNU
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Compiler Collection</a>.
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<p>In order to build RIOT for the native port, you just need the <a class="download" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/" title="GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection" target="_blank">GNU
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Compiler Collection</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="flasher">Setup a flashing tool</a></h2>
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<h2 id="flasher">Setup a flashing tool</h2>
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<h3>For MSB-A2</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Enter the <i>boards</i> directory and change to <i>msba2-common/tools</i>.</li>
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<a href="http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm" title="Virtual COM Port
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Drivers" target="_blank">FTDI homepage</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>For MSB-430H</h3>
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<p class="todo">TODO</p>
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<h3>For redbee-econotag</h3>
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<p class="todo">TODO</p>
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<h3>For MSB-430H</h3>
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<p>Download and install <a class="download" href="http://mspdebug.sourceforge.net/download.html" title="Debugging and programming tool for MSP430 MCUs" target="_blank">MSPDebug</a> according to the information provided on the website. You can also use MSPDebug for debugging.</p>
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<h3>For redbee-econotag</h3>
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<p>Folow the instructions for <a href="http://mc1322x.devl.org/libmc1322x.html" title="LIBMC1322X"target="_blank">Getting Started with MC1322x</a>.
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<h3>For STM32F4DISCOVERY</h3>
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<p class="todo">TODO</p>
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containing your source code. A template Makefile is available in the dist
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folder of the RIOT repository.</p>
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<p>One of the C files has to provide a main function according to this
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prototype:
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prototype:</p>
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<pre>
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void main(void);
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int main(void);
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</pre>
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<p>Within your project's Makefile, you can define the modules you want to use.</p>
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<p>Unless specified otherwise, make will create an
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elf-file as well as an Intel hex file in the bin folder of your project
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