Bsp Compilation; Host Requirements; Host Package Installation; Bsp Source & Cross Compiler Installation - iWave iW-RainboW-G17D User Manual

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iW-RainboW-G17D Linux User Guide

2.1 Host Requirements

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A Linux host PC with latest version (ex. Ubuntu version 12.04)
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Root permission on the Development Host.
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Cross compiler package for iW-RainboW-G17M-Q7.

2.2 Host package installation

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Open a terminal window and install the below packages in host PC.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sed wget cvs subversion
sudo apt-get install git-core coreutils unzip
sudo apt-get install texi2html texinfo
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev docbook-utils
sudo apt-get install gawk python-pysqlite2 diffstat
sudo apt-get install help2man make gcc vim
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ desktop-file-utils
sudo apt-get install chrpath libgl1-mesa-dev install
sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev mercurial
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake groff libtool xterm
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Configure the local git repository as mentioned below.
git config --global user.email <your_email@example.com>
Note: Refer following link for more details https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git
2.3 BSP source & cross compiler installation
Yocto can be used to extract and build the u-boot source, Linux kernel source and root file system .The
following steps will help to build the u-boot source code, Linux kernel and root file system directly for
iW-RainboW-G17M-Q7 platform. Yocto Installation steps are given below:
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Copy the yocto source package to home directory int the host pc.
host@host~$
RainboW-G17M-Q7-Rx.x-RELx.x-LinuxDeliverables/Source-code/Linux/Yocto/Linux-
iwg17m_iW-PREDZ-SC-01-R1.0-REL1.0.bsx <current_directory>
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Change the permission of the source package so that it can be executed.
host@host~$
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cp <path to iW-RainboW-G17M-Q7-Rx.x-RELx.x-LinuxDeliverables>/ iW-
chmod +x Linux-iwg17m_iW-PREDZ-SC-01-R1.0-REL1.0.bsx
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