Helpers script to compile a version of GCC that crosscompiles to VxWorks.
To use the GCC-based VxWorks compiler on Windows, you need to install CMake, Ninja and Git for Windows. Make sure that both CMake and Ninja executables are on the Path enviromental variable, so that if you type cmake or ninja in the Git Bash, the commands are execute out of the box.
To install the compiler, you can download the binaries at https://github.com/iit-danieli-joint-lab/idjl-gcc-vxworks/releases/download/v0.2.0/idjl-gcc-vxworks-windows-x64.zip, and unzip them in any directory.
To use the GCC-based VxWorks compiler, open the Git bash and source the setup.sh file:
source /path/where/you/downloaded/idjl-gcc-vxworks/setup.sh
Note that for any new terminal in which you want to run the compiler, you need to source the setup.sh script again.
To source the script automatically, you can create a .bash_profile file in your home and add the source command there.
To generate a CMake project that target VxWorks, create a build-vxworks directory and pass idjl_vxworks_toolchain.cmake as the CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE option, using the Ninja generator.
mkdir build-vxworks
cd build-vxworks
cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/path/where/you/downloaded/idjl-gcc-vxworks/idjl_vxworks_toolchain.cmake /path/of/the/cmake/project/srcs
then, you can compile your code using the ninja command:
ninja
For compiling the GCC compiler with VxWorks support, you need a bash like enviroment. The enviroment in which this has been tested have been Ubuntu 18.04 and on Windows the MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit enviroment.
First, install the MSYS2 enviroment using the installer.
Then, open an MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit terminal (not a MSYS2 MSYS or MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit one!) and first install the development tools:
pacman -S base-devel git mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake unzip
After the installation terminates successfully, open a new MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit terminal to make sure that all the installed packages are available, and clone the repo and run the script:
git clone https://github.com/iit-danieli-joint-lab/idjl-gcc-vxworks
cd idjl-gcc-vxworks
./build_idjl_gcc_vxworks.sh
the build can take some time (up to one hour).
If the build ends successfully (i.e. it prints 'Success!' at the end of the output), then the compiler and related tools are
installed in the idjl-gcc-vworks/install directory and ready to be used.
To prepare a new release that can be used as described in the previous section, you just need to zip the the install directory, renaming the directory idjl-gcc-vxworks-windows-x64 and naming the .zip file idjl-gcc-vxworks-windows-x64.zip.
Install development tools:
sudo apt install \
bison \
build-essential \
dejagnu \
expect \
flex \
git \
gnat-7 \
libisl-dev \
libisl15 \
libisl19 \
texinfo \
unzip \
wget
Clone this repository and cd in the directory:
git clone https://github.com/iit-danieli-joint-lab/idjl-gcc-vxworks
cd idjl-gcc-vxworks
Launch the building script (warning: the build can take more than an hour. To avoid losing time if there are problems and the build needs to restart, it is recommended to use ccache):
./build_idjl_gcc_vxworks.sh
If the build ends successfully (i.e. it prints 'Success!' at the end of the output), then the compiler is ready to be used.
If then compiling you get the error:
i586-wrs-vxworks-gcc: fatal error: environment variable ‘WIND_BASE’ not defined
that means that in that terminal the WIND_BASE env variables is not defined, so you need to source the idjl-gcc-vxworks/setup.sh script again.