The GSG already includes the setup instructions. Remove the
duplicate that existed in installation_win.rst.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
As presented to the TSC, Zephyr's out-of-box experience for new
developers is, well, complicated. A number of suggestions were
presented including simplifying the getting started material to present
a straight-forward path through the setup and installation steps through
to getting a sample application built, flashed, and running.
This PR is a work-in-progress towards addressing this OOB experience
with a minimal-distractions version of the GSG. Alternatives, warnings,
and material that could lead the developer astray were moved to
alternative/advanced instruction documents (based on the previous
separate Linux/macOS/Windows setup guides) and a new "Beyond the GSG"
document.
We do take advantage of a sphinx-tabs extension for synchronized tabs to
present OS-specific instructions: clicking on one tab will display all
same-named tabs throughout the doc.
We hope (and will continue evaluating) that this new GSG gets developers
set up quickly and then we can send them along to other documents to
continue learning about Zephyr and trying other sample apps.
Thanks for all your previous feedback that I've worked
into this new version.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Updates based on discussion and changes in supported features.
- Make the guide shorter by removing content that's not relevant to
most users who are truly just getting started, such as information
about pre-LTS versions that did not support west, and by being more
concise in some places.
- Decrease the number of colored boxes. At the latest TSC F2F, the
"note / warning / note / tip" contents were identified as a
readability problem.
- Add additional information based on new west features, like "west
boards".
Signed-off-by: Marti Bolivar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
Add a note installing programs manually on your Windows system: you may
need to update the Windows PATH so the system can file these programs.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
MSYS support was added as a stop-gap while native windows support was
unsupported. Now that Native windows support is stable we can drop
support for MSYS.
Dropping support for MSYS fixes#11260 and allows us to spend more
resources on native windows support.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
The getting started documentation has become a bit of a mess over
time:
- The reader needs to jump forward and backward in the documents
depending on what their system already has installed (e.g. "start by
cloning Zephyr, oh wait, see below if you don't have Git yet" etc.).
- The operating system setup guides, toolchain setup instructions, and
application build and run information have each become their own
balkanized fiefdom, with duplicated, confusing and sometimes
inconsistent results.
- Linux documentation for all distributions is incomplete in some
places (the Arch documentation in particular is vestigial)
and wrong in others (platforms like Ubuntu still nominally require
tools, like autoconf, that haven't been necessary since we stopped
using the C Kconfig tools)
- The dependencies needed to build the documentation have
gotten *huge* since the LaTeX additions and massively overstate the
footprint of Zephyr's real dependencies. This is particularly a
problem on Linux, where those dependencies were not clearly
separated from those needed to build Zephyr.
- The toolchain setup documentation is confusing and scattered across
the main file and the platform-specific files. There are various
bits of incomplete and/or incorrect information. For example, the
docs imply that you can use the Zephyr SDK on non-Linux hosts, which
isn't true. As another example, some toolchains, such as GNU Arm
Embedded, are documented several times. As a final example, some
toolchains, such as Intel's ISSM, are squirrelled away in the
Windows document when there are Linux builds available.
Overhaul the pages to fix these issues and otherwise clean up the
language. One significant side-effect is that all the
toolchain-related information is rooted in a single toctree. Another
is that it should now be possible to follow the instructions, in
order, on any supported platform.
Signed-off-by: Marti Bolivar <marti@foundries.io>
Add a section to optionally install the Chocolatey packages required to
build the documentation in .pdf format on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Fixes the indentation for some code blocks and notes
through the "getting started" instructions.
The main effect is that an ordered list
is no longer broken by a note block.
Signed-off-by: Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan@sanchezortega.es>
The old GCC ARM Embedded website on launchpad
(https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded) has been superseeded by the new
GNU Arm Embedded one
(https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm).
This also means a change of name from "GCC" to "GNU". Reflect this in
the enviroment variables so that the proper term is used henceforth.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
pyocd recently added support for python 3 so we can now remove the
python 2 package requirements. It also merged Zephyr thread awareness
upstream, so we can remove the reference to my pyocd pull request.
Tested debugging and flashing on Linux and Windows.
Signed-off-by: Maureen Helm <maureen.helm@nxp.com>
In order to make things simpler for the user, remove the
`--user` flag when invoking pip and pip3 so that executables are placed
in the <Python>\Scripts folder, which is added to the PATH
automatically.
Additionally clarify and clean up the documentation tools section.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
In order to build the documentation one needs Doxygen. Now that building
the documentation is supported on Windows, include this package.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
The 'getting started' documentation is stating that one should set
some environment variables, but this is not necessary because the user
has already been instructed to set the variables in the
platform-specific guides.
The duplicated documentation should be removed because it is inferiour
to the original documentation. E.g. this documentation does not
describe how to permanently set environment variables. Also, it is
confusingly demonstrating how to use the SDK on Windows, but this is
not supported.
I believe that the purpose of the section is to verify that the user
has not misconfigured or misinstalled the toolchain, but this
responsibility is handled better by CMake itself.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
Remove the C Kconfig tools and various scripts associated with them.
scripts/kconfig/diffconfig is popular, so keep it.
I don't know whether anyone is using scripts/kconfig/config. Remove it
and see if anyone screams.
scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl deals with modules ('m' values) and
can safely be removed. Zephyr's Kconfig files do not use modules.
Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
It has been observed that users might "default" to Python2 and pip
will therefore install packages for the wrong Python. pip3 appears to
always be installed when Python3 is installed, so we invoke pip3
instead of pip2 to be safe.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
Several users have reported confusion about whether one should stop at
the 'Using MSYS2' guide, or continue following the guide.
To resolve this we title the three options as Option 1,2,3, and change
the wording of the second guide to make it clear that it is an
alternative, not an additional step.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
We want to support other toolchain not based on GCC, so the variable is
confusing, use ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT instead.
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Add a new zephyr-env.cmd that mirrors the functionality of zephyr-env.sh
but on Windows platforms. It sets ZEPHYR_BASE to the location of the
script.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Correct 2 items in the Windows Getting Started doc:
* dtc-msys2 is now an upstream Chocolatey package
* Add instructions to clone and build Ninja for MSYS2
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
In order to be able to document the build on Windows and UNIX
systems, slight variations are required on the app commands
that are used throughout the documentation system.
This includes getting rid of the prompt symbol and providing commands
for both UNIX and Windows operating systems.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
The new native Windows development environment no longer relies on MSYS2
or WSL at all. Instead it uses a standard Command Prompt and Windows
native tools. Document the installation and setup process in order to be
able to compile and develop.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Modern windows tools will properly handle windows or linux line endings
so remove the warning about windows tools.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Certain parts of Zephyr require Unix-style line-endings. To make sure
the line endings are not converted to Windows-style line-endings we
explicitly specify core.autocrlf=false when cloning.
This fixes#5557
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
Some users might want to inherit their already existing Windows
environment variables into the MSYS2 system. This note explains how to
achieve this.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
There are files in the cloned copy of the Zephyr tree needed to setup
the development environment, so there's a bit of chicken and egg
problem.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Unify the format and mechanisms used in the different Getting Started
guides so that they are consistent in:
- The way Kconfig is built
- Avoiding using -B and -H CMake options
- -DBOARD instead of export
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Update the Windows MSYS2 instructions with the required CMake commands
used to build on this platform.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
The MSYS2 installer does not include an updated version of the package
database, so users need to update it first in order to install all of
the required dependencies. Additionally, the repo must be cloned before
being able to install the Python requirements.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
ReST defines interpreted text roles where text enclosed by single quotes
can be "intrepreted", for example :ref:`some name` becomes a link to
a label anywhere in the doc set named "some name", :c:func:`funcname()`
becomes a link to the API documentation for "funcname", and
:option:`CONFIG_NAME` becomes a link to, in our case, the documentation
for the generated Kconfig option.
This patch fixes uses of `some name` (without a role) by either adding
an explicit role, or changing to ``some name``, which indicates inline
code block formatting (most likely what was intended).
This is a precursor to changing the default behavior of interpreted
text to treat `some name` as :any:`some name` (as configured in
doc/conf.py), which would attempt to create a link to any available
definition of "some name".
We may not change this default role behavior, but it becomes an option
after the fixes in this patch. In any case, this patch fixes incorrect
uses of single-quoted text (possibly introduced because GitHub's
markdown language uses single-quoted text for inline code formatting).
Jira: ZEP-2414
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
After Andy Gross submitted a package for the Device Tree Compiler
(dtc), and it has now become available on the MSYS2 package
repository, it's no longer needed for the user to manually compile
the DTC.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
When installing packages with PIP, recommend --user so that it is
installed in the user's directory vs system wide, potentially
overriding system-wide files that are under package manager control
and introducing possible security issues.
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
By having this as a Python script rather than a host executable, this
should simplify the build process on non-Unix platforms.
With this change, pyelftools is now required to build Zephyr. Please
consult the getting started documentation for your host platform for
installation instructions.
Jira: ZEP-2062
Signed-off-by: Leandro Pereira <leandro.pereira@intel.com>
List all required modules in one file and just call pip with this
file to install all needed modules instead of listing them
individually.
Added gitlint and pyocd and other required packages to the list.
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Having tried and tested building Zephyr using the standard SDK on
Windows 10 using the new WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), add the
documentation so that others can benefit from the functionality.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Some users started the wrong shell (MinGW) and ended up having build
issues, added a note about starting the right shell.
Jira: ZEP-2004
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
With the required patch already being upstream, we can now redirect
users to the standard vanilla DTC tree.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
MinGW is old and unsupported, and it does not even download properly
these days. Remove the instructions that rely on MinGW since they are
only confusing for people trying to build on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Add instructions to build the DTC from Windows, note that the following
2 caveats apply:
* The flex version needs to be pinned to 2.6.0 because of a bug with the
current MSYS2 flex
* The repository to clone DTC from is currently my own on GH while
waiting for a patch to be accepted upstream
Additionally this removes the python2 requirement and adds documentation
on installing pip an pyaml.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
More general spelling fixes, and cleaning up stray UTF-8 characters
such as curly-quotes, em- and en-dashes. Use replacement strings
for |reg| and |trade|.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
We're moving the project code to GitHub folks, so change references
in the documentation from gerrit over to GitHub:
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Change-Id: Ic491a62ed43fc799eb5698e92435cb6eb4d89394
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Add more installation details for building zephyr on Windows
including what to do with the ISSM tar.gz file that's
downloaded, proxy settings if behind a firewall, adding tar
to the dependencies (needed to extract the ISSM tar.gz file),
linking to the downloads page for the ARM toolchain, and
fixing command lines to correctly use `make BOARD=`. Verified
instructions work on a Windows 10 system.
Change-Id: I04e5f8e46df7630868568b90388dc65bb9baa4c9
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Since MSYS2 is far more stable, reliable, maintained and easy
to set up than MinGW as a Windows development environment,
default to it for the official Windows Getting Started guide,
including instructions to compile for both x86 and ARM with it.
Change-Id: Iaba61498b3b16a8ee1edbff953de16c275282c7b
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
