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1 Building and installing FreeCalypso host tools
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2 ==============================================
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4 In order to compile and install our host tools, just run 'make', then
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5 'make install' as root.
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7 The "standard" install directories are /usr/local/bin for binaries and
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8 /usr/local/share/freecalypso for helper files. If you need to change these
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9 paths to something else, you'll need to edit a bunch of individual component
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10 Makefiles, and possibly also some source files like loadtools/defpath.c -
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11 sorry, FreeCalypso is not GNU and does not use autotools.
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13 All FreeCalypso host tools are written in plain C, and with the exception of one
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14 special hack-utility that has been excluded from the standard build set, they
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15 have absolutely no library dependencies beyond libc. In other words, they are
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16 very friendly to those who like bare bones minimalist systems. The only
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17 exception is the fc-lcdemu hack which needs libX11 to compile and an X11 display
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18 to run. It was a developer-only hack-utility to begin with, and the developer
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19 setup of which it was a part never worked in a satisfactory manner, so it has
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20 been retired. If you would like to play with it, you will need to compile it
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21 separately, as it has been excluded from the top Makefile in order to have the
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22 standard build set with no dependencies.
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25 IMEI record on the Pirelli DP-L10 has been eliminated by incorporating our own
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27 operation of retrieving the factory IMEI) into our rvinterf/etmsync source, and
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28 the functions that require access to Pirelli's IMEI have now been integrated
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31 Building and installing the ARM7 toolchain
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34 The current "official" GNU ARM toolchain for FreeCalypso consists of
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35 binutils-2.21.1, gcc-4.5.4 and newlib-2.0.0 with a specific set of patches and
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36 build configuration options. This toolchain is used to compile target-utils in
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37 this package as well as our separately-maintained Citrine firmware. Build it
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40 1. Download these 3 source tarballs for the standard GNU+newlib components:
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46 2. Run the build+install.sh script in the toolchain directory. Read the
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47 comments in the script first for the usage instructions.
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49 The toolchain thus built will need to be in your PATH before you can compile
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50 target-utils or Citrine.
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52 Please note: the toolchain that is prescribed for FreeCalypso as above is
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53 *believed* to be equivalent to the one used by OsmocomBB, but there are no
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54 guarantees. Use any other toolchain at your own risk.
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56 Compiling target-utils
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59 Running 'make' in the target-utils tree with the ARM7 toolchain present in your
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60 PATH will result in compalstage and loadagent being built; these are the two
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61 components needed in order to use FreeCalypso loadtools. Run 'make install' to
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62 install these target binaries in /usr/local/share/freecalypso, which is where
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63 loadtools will look for them.
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65 Run 'make all' in target-utils to build some other components that aren't
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66 really needed.