The documentation that describes how Python and pip interact with the OS
when installing packages used to be under a common section, and was
moved to the west bootstrap one later on. Since this information is
required early on (for example on Linux when installing CMake via pip3),
move the info to its own section and link to it from others.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Remove the version numbers from the distribution listings, since those
get outdated quickly and on top of that they are causing confusion due
to those being now too old to contain recent versions of CMake and DTC.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Clear Linux exports to all users a list of "aggressive" compiler and
linker flags. Zephyr's CMake build system will either warn or fail
because of these. Add one magic command that solves the issue.
More background information at https://superuser.com/a/1452523/111302
Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@intel.com>
Clean up some stray references to cmake in doc, boards and
samples that don't make explicit use of the zephyr app extension,
as well as other minor doc fixes.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
This option uses a lot of typing, so point out there's a way to save
keystrokes using -C.
Tweak the language around the target toolchain.
Signed-off-by: Marti Bolivar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
There are a few different places where alternatives for setting
environment variables are described. None of them is 100% complete, so
the results are likely to be confusing.
Make a single page on setting environment variables, how the zephyrrc
files work, how the zephyr-env scripts work, and some of the important
environment variables, with appropriate references elsewhere. (This is
inspired by the Arch wiki's excellent page on installing programs.)
Link to it from the getting started and application development pages
instead of repeating the information. This has the benefit of
shortening the getting started guide a bit more.
Add some concrete advice on checking the toolchain environment
variables in particular. This is a stumbling block for beginners.
Signed-off-by: Marti Bolivar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
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 documentation for the new GUI configuration interface in the
Application Development guide.
Also update all the images, touch up the language a bit, and tweak some
minor stuff:
- Say *.conf instead of .conf to make it clearer that .conf isn't the
literal name
- Add a missing -D<board> argument when running cmake
- Use figure:: instead of image::. Comes out left-aligned and with
space between the images, which looks nicer.
- Explain what '- -' and '-*-' means in the terminal menuconfig.
tkinter isn't included by default in many Python installations, despite
being part of the Python standard library, so also add the required
packages to the Development Environment Setup section of the manual. Add
a note to the Application Development section as well, to help
debugging.
Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <Ulf.Magnusson@nordicsemi.no>
Create a new dedicated section for west installation that details
some of the finer aspects of the process and steps involved.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
I often wish I had a short and Zephyr-specific place to point people
to when they're asking for help in ways that make it hard to help
them.
Add one.
Signed-off-by: Marti Bolivar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
Add a missing reference to how west is used to set ZEPHYR_MODULES in
without-west.rst, augmenting the application development guide a bit
to include this in the list of important variables, cleaning that up a
bit while we are here and adding some more west details.
Add a big fat warning in the getting started guide that using Zephyr
without west is not for the faint of heart.
Signed-off-by: Marti Bolivar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
- add glossary terms for important concepts we have to explain often,
like "west installation"
- add autodoc directives for pulling in west API docs
- add missing documentation for built-in features like west's
configuration, extension commands, etc.
- add missing documentation for "west sign" extension
- describe the manifest in a self-contained way rather than linking to
the relevant pykwalify schema, also adding a missing reference to
"west manifest" in the miscellaneous multi-repo commands list
- move various details regarding history and motivation to why.rst
among other changes to repo-tool.rst, leaving it closer to a "tell
me what I really need to know" style overview
- update planned features
Fixes: #14992
Signed-off-by: Marti Bolivar <marti@foundries.io>
The latest release of the Windows toolchain has a critical bug,
Windows users should install the next-to-latest release instead.
To prevent Windows users from being affected we add a note about this
in the documentation.
Bug: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/issues/12257
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
Linking to API material requires knowing the pecularities of how
doxygen, sphinx, and breathe work. In an attempt to hide some of this
we're preparing the current docs to allow use of configuration defaults
that will let us more simply use a default role that will hunt for a
reference target in the various domains that are available by using a
default "role" of "all". This will let us use the simple notation
`functionname` or `typename` without fully specifying the reference as
:c:func:`functionname`.
This patch cleans up exising docs that were (incorrectly) using single
backtics where double backtics should have been used, and also found
some typos (such as a space between the role name and the reference,
such as :file: `filename`, and a missing colon such as
c:func:`functionname`)
This is a start to address issue #14313
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
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>
A new role :zephyr_file: is available that renders to a link to the file
or folder in GitHub. Find appropriate references using :file: and
convert to :zephyr_file: to take advantage of its linking capability.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Skipping the setup of a toolchain is especially nice for brand new users
who just want to give qemu_x86[_64] or native_posix a quick try, gives a
great first impression.
Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@intel.com>
Document building the samples with west (for now only in the Getting
Started guide).
Also switch to `reel_board` by default since `arduino_101` is no longer
well supported.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Reference the multiple repository management section in the Getting
Started Guide, so that users have a direct link to the text describing
how multiple repositories are managed.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Add additional details about what running `west init` and `west update`
actually does in the local filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Overhaul the west documentation so that it matches the model that is
currently implemented in the west repository.
This model is no longer subject to change in the short or mid term,
since it has been selected as the only viable one for multi-repo
management using west.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Since west is no longer included in the Zephyr repository, instruct
users to install and use west in order to obtain the Zephyr source code.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Rasmussen <torsten.rasmussen@nordicsemi.no>
Move to latest cmake version with many bug fixes and enhancements.
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
When we move DT infront of Kconfig we are going to need access to a C
toolchain before Kconfig is evaluated. This means it will not be
possible to specify the toolchain used through Kconfig.
To deal with this we ...
Drop support for specifying CROSS_COMPILE through Kconfig. Still
available is the ability to specify CROSS_COMPILE through the
environment or through a CMake variable.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
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>
Using ``pip3 install --user`` installs Python packages in the Python
user install directory (``.local``) so we should remind folks to add
``~/.local/bin`` to their PATH.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
In 0d811b9aee the gcc-mulitlib package
was removed from the Ubuntu list of packages to install.
Seems this may be creating some confusion for some developers (see
comments in #10243)
Let's add it back.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Escolar Piedras <alpi@oticon.com>
Windows requires that there are no quotes around environment variables,
remove the ones in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
The getting started guide says to run:
pip3 install -r --user zephyr/scripts/requirements.txt
but this is broken. It should be:
pip3 install --user -r zephyr/scripts/requirements.txt
This fixes#10817 and is a regression from:
0d811b9aee
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 new optional TOOLCHAIN_ROOT cmake and environment variable to
specify an alternative location for toolchain cmake files.
When set, Zephyr will look for a toolchain cmake file located in:
${TOOLCHAIN_ROOT}/cmake/toolchain/${ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT}.cmake
Signed-off-by: François Delawarde <fnde@oticon.com>
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>
Some distros set the environment variable CFLAGS, this will
accidentally affect Zephyr builds.
To fix this we clear the environment variable from within the Zephyr
build system for the duration of the CMake execution.
Until now we have been instructing the user to clear it, but it is
easier for the user if we clear it for him.
The same applies to CXXFLAGS.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
This adds new targets to generate build documentation through
LaTEX to PDF.
There are a few notes:
1. pdflatex complains about the tex file generated by doxygen
so it needs to be fixed with a Python script before feeding
in through pdflatex.
2. SVG files are not recognized by pdflatex so they are converted
to known good format on the fly, only for producing PDF. This
uses the libRSVG's rsvg-convert tool.
Relates to #6782.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Leung <daniel.leung@intel.com>
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>
Modified the web page to make it direct and easier to understand.
Major changes being the selection of the directory in the Zephyr SDK
Installation and a Note added for the '.zephyrrc' to include the SDK
installation location if not default.
Minor changes involving the elimination of repeated use of same sentence
with different Host OS and indentation correction in the Fedora section
since it showed up in 'white text' rather than code block.
SDK's '.zephyrrc' documentation needed to have the default location and
the user defined location
Signed-off-by: Arjun Warty <arjun.warty@nxp.com>
The SDK has been packaged for Arch Linux and can be found
in Arch User Repository. Update the docs to make this known.
The package is useful because by installing it the user
gets all dependencies automatically installed.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Colin <ac@alexeicolin.com>
