Ok, so I had this nice CupCake kit. It comes with pre-built electronics, and pre-installed firmware. But I like being able to do upgrades, especially since the whole thing is still maturing.
So, the MakerBot instructions say "get the Arduino env, apply the Sanguino patch, and you're done". Easy, right?
I start by downloading the sources for the Arduino software. You see, I run a 64-bit machine, and the pre-built Linux binaries are 32 bits. Not good enough.
Of course, I have to build the cross-compiling tool-chain… easy enough: crossdev has a special target for it:
# crossdev -t avr
Only it does not work: avr-libc-headers requires the compiler to be already build. I don't go fixing it the proper way, I just follow the hint found in a mailing list post, and do (after the failed crossdev run):
# USE='-nls -fortran -gtk -openmp -mudflap' emerge -v cross-avr/gcc # crossdev -t avr
and I have a (hopefully) working cross-compiler.
Then, following the Arduino instructions, I say:
~/arduino-src/build/linux$ ./make.sh
and it goes:
The Java bundle that is included with Processing supports only i686 by default. To build the code, you will need to install the Java 1.5.0_15 JDK (not a JRE, and not any other version), and create a symlink to the directory where it is installed. Create the symlink in the "work" directory, and named it "java": ln -s /path/to/jdk1.5.0_15 /home/dakkar/arduino-src/build/linux/work/java"
Ok, I'll do it. By having mis-read the notice, I actually symlink the icedtea6 JDK. It didn't seem to mind.
Now it builds, but it won't run: there are 32-bit libraries! Who built them??
Looking at Portage (yes, I run Gentoo) I see that there is an ebuild for an (older) Arduino version, and it declares dependency on exactly the library that is giving me problems. So:
emerge -av dev-java/rxtx uisp
and I have the right library. Of course the Arduino program won't use it (it's not in the default CLASSPATH), so I symlink it over the bundled version:
rm work/lib/RXTXcomm.jar work/lib/librxtxSerial.so ln -s /usr/share/rxtx-2/lib/RXTXcomm.jar work/lib/ ln -s /usr/lib/rxtx-2/librxtxSerial.so work/lib/
It runs!
Warning
In the official Portage tree, RXTX is at version 2.1.7.2, which does not seem to work. We need version 2.2; you can get it from my overlay.
Of course, no Sanguino support, and the CupCake main board is a Sanguino.
The Sanguino instructions say to add a couple of directories, overwrite a few files, add some lines to a file, and it should be enough. Well, not so fast. It didn't work for me.
After a bit of find, I see that the boards.txt file (the one that needs to have data added to) has been copied from it "source" location (/home/dakkar/arduino-src/hardware/boards.txt) to the "work" location (/home/dakkar/arduino-src/build/linux/work/hardware/boards.txt). Ok, I should have read all the instructions: it said to rebuild the Arduino environment every time a change is made.
By this point I'm sick and tired of re-doing all the work-arounds, so I just change the make.sh script:
===================================================================
--- make.sh (revision 756)
+++ make.sh (working copy)
@@ -34,25 +34,7 @@
install -m 755 dist/arduino work/arduino
- ARCH=`uname -m`
- if [ $ARCH = "i686" ]
- then
- echo Extracting JRE...
- tar --extract --file=jre.tgz --ungzip --directory=work
- else
-# echo This is not my beautiful house.
-# if [ $ARCH = "x86_64" ]
-# then
-# echo You gots the 64.
-# fi
- echo "
-The Java bundle that is included with Processing supports only i686 by default.
-To build the code, you will need to install the Java 1.5.0_15 JDK (not a JRE,
-and not any other version), and create a symlink to the directory where it is
-installed. Create the symlink in the \"work\" directory, and named it \"java\":
-ln -s /path/to/jdk1.5.0_15 `pwd`/work/java"
- exit
- fi
+ ln -s "$(java-config -O)" work/java
fi
cd ../..
@@ -91,6 +73,11 @@
rm -rf ../build/linux/work/classes
mkdir ../build/linux/work/classes
+rm ../build/linux/work/lib/RXTXcomm.jar
+rm ../build/linux/work/lib/librxtxSerial.so
+ln -s /usr/share/rxtx-2/lib/RXTXcomm.jar ../build/linux/work/lib/
+ln -s /usr/lib/rxtx-2/librxtxSerial.so ../build/linux/work/lib/
+
../build/linux/work/java/bin/java \
-cp ../build/linux/work/java/lib/tools.jar \
com.sun.tools.javac.Main \
Now:
rm -rf work/ ./make.sh ./run.sh
and I have the environment working! Actually working: I used the results of these instructions to upgrade the firmware of both boards on the CupCake, and it worked perfectly.
