1 | .. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
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3 | .. Copyright (C) 2016 Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org> |
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5 | .. index:: Installation |
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6 | .. _installation: |
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8 | Installation |
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9 | ************ |
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11 | This section details how to set up and install the RTEMS Ecosystem. You will |
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12 | create a set of tools and an RTEMS kernel for your selected Board Support |
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13 | Package (BSP). |
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15 | You will be asked to follow a few simple steps and when you have finished you |
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16 | will have a development environment set up you can use to build applications |
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17 | for RTEMS. You will have also created a development environment you and a team |
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18 | can adapt for a project of any size and complexity. |
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20 | .. index:: Tools |
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22 | RTEMS applications are developed using cross-development tools running on a |
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23 | development computer, more commonlly referred to as the host computer. These |
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24 | are typically your desktop machine or a special build server. All RTEMS tools |
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25 | and runtime libraries are built from source on your host machine. The RTEMS |
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26 | Project does not maintain binary builds of the tools. This may appear to be the |
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27 | opposite to what you normally experience with host operating systems, and it |
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28 | is, however this approach works well. RTEMS is not a host operating system and |
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29 | it is not a distrbution. Providing binary packages for every possible host |
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30 | operating system is too big a task for the RTEMS Project and it is not a good |
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31 | use of core developer time. Their time is better spent making RTEMS better and |
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32 | faster. |
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34 | The RTEMS Project base installation set ups the tools and the RTEMS kernel for |
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35 | the selected BSPs. The tools run on your host computer are used to compile, |
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36 | link, and format executables so they can run on your target hardware. |
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38 | The RTEMS Project supports two set ups, release and developer |
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39 | environments. Release installations create the tools and kernel in a single |
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40 | pass ready for you to use. The tools and kernel are stable and only bug fixes |
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41 | are added creating new dot point releases. The developer set up tracks the Git |
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42 | repositories for the tools and kernel. |
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44 | .. comment: code block warning is in kernel.rst |
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45 | |
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46 | .. toctree:: |
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48 | prefixes-sandboxing |
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49 | releases |
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50 | developer |
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51 | kernel |
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