Arduino Support

This section describes how to use Zigbit modules in the Arduino Build Environment. Currently the build process is described for Linux.

Build the Arduino Environment from the Sources.

Get Arduino Sources

 svn checkout http://arduino.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ arduino  && echo OK

The checkout may need several retries, since connection maybe reset during checkout. If you see "OK" on the command line, then svn has succeeded. (Normally you will need 2 to 5 retries, depending how often the svn server cancels the the connection).

Note:

In order to save the time of a complete check out for later updates, zip the build directory now.

Prebuild the distribution

The next step patches some source files and builds the distribution.

 cd arduino/
 patch -p0 -i [uracoli-src-dir]/Contrib/Arduino/zigbit.patch
 cd build/linux
 bash make.sh

The make.sh script produces this output:

 Setting up directories to build for Linux...
 cp: cannot stat `../shared/libraries': No such file or directory
 Copying examples...
 Extracting reference...
 Extracting JRE...
 Building processing.core
 Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
 Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.

 Done.

While running make.sh, it seems that the following error message can be ignored.

 cp: cannot stat `../shared/libraries': No such file or directory
 

Build your personal Zigbit Arduino Distribution

 cd arduino/build/linux
 cp -rfv [uracoli-src-dir]/Contrib/Arduino/examples/* ../shared/examples/
 cp -rfv [uracoli-src-dir]/Contrib/Arduino/hardware/* ../../hardware/
 bash dist.sh

The dist.sh script produces this output:

  Creating Arduino distribution for revision 0018...
  Building processing.core
  Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
  Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.

  Done.
  cp: cannot stat `../shared/libraries': No such file or directory
  Copying examples...
  Extracting reference...
  Creating tarball and finishing...
  Done.

Install and Test the new distribution

The result file is arduino-<version>.tgz, unpack it and start arduino in the usual way.

Copy arduino-<version>.tgz to a save place and remove the arduino directory.

 tar xvzf arduino-<version>.tgz
 cd arduino-<version>
 ./arduino

Patch arduino binary distribution

Todo:

Check if it would be possible to replace the patched Compiler.java in the jar archiv, so only this file needs to be checked out. (see arduino/build/linux/work/lib/pde.jar that contains arduino/app/src/processing/app/debug/Compiler.class)