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Building Crazyflie 2.0 firmware
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Dependencies

You'll need to use either the Crazyflie VM, the toolbelt or install some ARM toolchain.

Install a toolchain

OS X

brew tap PX4/homebrew-px4
brew install gcc-arm-none-eabi

Debian/Ubuntu

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 64b, Ubuntu 16.04 64b, and Ubuntu 18.04 64b:

For Ubuntu 14.04 :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:terry.guo/gcc-arm-embedded
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libnewlib-arm-none-eabi

For Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install gcc-arm-embedded

Note: Do not use the gcc-arm-none-eabi package that is part of the Ubuntu repository as this is outdated.

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S community/arm-none-eabi-gcc community/arm-none-eabi-gdb community/arm-none-eabi-newlib

Windows

The GCC ARM Embedded toolchain for Windows is available at launchpad.net. Download the zip archive rather than the executable installer. There are a few different systems for running UNIX-style shells and build systems on Windows; the instructions below are for Cygwin.

Install Cygwin with setup-x86_64.exe. Use the standard C:\cygwin64 installation directory and install at least the make and git packages.

Download the latest gcc-arm-none-eabi-*-win32.zip archive from launchpad.net. Create the directory C:\cygwin64\opt\gcc-arm-none-eabi and extract the contents of the zip file to it.

Launch a Cygwin terminal and run the following to append to your ~/.bashrc file:

echo '[[ $PATH == */opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi/bin* ]] || export PATH=/opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi/bin:$PATH' >>~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Verify the toolchain installation with arm-none-eabi-gcc --version

Cloning

This repository uses git submodules. Clone with the --recursive flag

git clone --recursive https://github.com/bitcraze/crazyflie-firmware.git

If you already have cloned the repo without the --recursive option, you need to get the submodules manually

cd crazyflie-firmware
git submodule init
git submodule update

Compiling

Crazyflie 2.X

This is the default build so just running make is enough or:

make PLATFORM=cf2

or with the toolbelt

tb make PLATFORM=cf2

Roadrunner

Use the tag platform

make PLATFORM=tag

or with the toolbelt

tb make PLATFORM=tag

config.mk

To create custom build options create a file called config.mk in the tools/make/ folder and fill it with options. E.g.

PLATFORM=CF2
DEBUG=1
CLOAD=0

Out of tree build

By setting the Makefile variable CRAZYFLIE_BASE, it is possible to build the Crazyflie from outside the project folder. This can be used to implement autonomous behaviour on top of the Crazyflie firmware by compiling external code in the firmware from an external repos.

For example, if you have a deck driver file called push.c that creates a deck driver for the deck bcPush. You can create a new git repos with crazyflie-firmware clonned as submodule and put push.c in a folder src. The makefile to build a firmware starting your deck driver automatically will be:

CRAZYFLIE_BASE=crazyflie-firmware

CFLAGS += -DDECK_FORCE=bcPush

VPATH += src/

PROJ_OBJ += push.o

include $(CRAZYFLIE_BASE)/Makefile

Note that CFLAGS += -DDECK_FORCE=bcPush is what would normally be added to config.mk. Hence, this method also allow to create build configurations folder by building the firmware is a separate folder with separate configurations.

Both tools/make/config.mk and current_platform.mk are sourced from the current folder and not from the Crazyflie firmware folder.

Make targets:

all        : Shortcut for build
compile    : Compile cflie.hex. WARNING: Do NOT update version.c
build      : Update version.c and compile cflie.elf/hex
clean_o    : Clean only the Objects files, keep the executables (ie .elf, .hex)
clean      : Clean every compiled files
mrproper   : Clean every compiled files and the classical editors backup files

cload      : If the crazyflie-clients-python is placed on the same directory level and 
             the Crazyradio/Crazyradio PA is inserted it will try to flash the firmware 
             using the wireless bootloader.
flash      : Flash .elf using OpenOCD
halt       : Halt the target using OpenOCD
reset      : Reset the target using OpenOCD
openocd    : Launch OpenOCD