Help for first time building PanelDue firmware

[jay_s_uk]

Have you copied rrflibraries into the paneldue firmware folder as well?

[Rab]

I didn't have the rfflibraries and have since found them - they are not mentioned in any of the build instructions.
(https://github.com/Duet3D/RRFLibraries)

Are they to sit in the PanelDue project in an rfflibraries folder?

[jay_s_uk]

like this

[Rab]

Thank you for such a fast response!


I'm not sure if the image upload worked - but as output I get :

PanelDue-v2-4.3.elf
PanelDue-v2-4.3.map
and 92 files in the src folder

Is this as expected?

[jay_s_uk]

• Download and install the gcc cross-compiler from https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads:
  User version 9_2020_q2_update

• Download and install Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers version 2020-06, from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/. You do not need the Arduino add-on.

• Download and install GNU Arm Eclipse from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuarmeclipse/files/Build Tools/gnuarmeclipse-build-tools-win64-2.6-201507152002-setup.exe/download. This provides versions of make.exe, rm.exe and other tools without the 8192-character command line limitation of some other versions.

• Modify your PATH environment variable to include the 'bin' folder of the GNU ARM Eclipse installation.

• Run "which rm" and "which make" to make sure that rm and make will be fetched from that folder.

• In Eclipse create new workspace C:/Eclipse/Paneldue. Then exit Eclipse.

• Download the paneldue project as a zip file from github and unzip it into C:/Eclipse/Paneldue. Then rename folder Paneldue-master in that folder to Paneldue.

• Repeat the previous step for github project RRFlibraries (Dev Branch). Then rename folder RRFLibraries-dev in that folder to RRFLibraries.

• list itemLoad Eclipse and tell it to import the Paneldue and RRFLibraries projects.

• The build depends on the Eclipse workspace variable 'ArmGccPath" being set to the directory where your arm-none-eabi-g++ compiler resides. For example "C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain\9 2020-q2-update\bin" on Windows. To set it, go to Windows -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> Build -> Build Variables and click "Add..."

• Change the build configuration for RRFlibraries to SAM4S

• Change the build configuration for Paneldue to the panel you want.

Build paneldue

[Rab]

Thanks so much for the detailed instructions they've resolved everything for me and I'm now happily compiling - I hope they help out some other people too.

[Karabox]

I followed the instructions
Can't find String.h file in RRFLibraries\src\General \

Where can i find it?
Thanks.

[alankilian]

Open up RRFLibraries/General and see if it's there first.

If it is, you need to get your INCLUDE path set to include RRFLibraries folder.

(I'm not sure how to do that.)

[Karabox]

I didn't find the file on GitHub too

[dc42]

Make sure you are using the dev branch of the RRFLibraries project.

[Karabox]

@dc42 thanks a lot !