System-Less Framework

This page describes an easy to use framework for developing software for small microcontrollers.

First, you have to download a package for the architecture you want to use:

• H8S/2638
• LPC21xx

Compiling

The downloaded packages must be configured for a particular board you plan to use. For h8canusb execute the following command from h8300-boot directory:

ln -s board/h8canusb/config.h8canusb config.omk
make default-config

Then, you can change default configuration of what is compiled by setting the variables from config.omk-default to a different value. Since settings from config.omk overrides those from config.omk-default, it recommended to add the values there.

After typing

make

everything is going to compile and if the compilation is completed without errors, you can use this build environment for building your own applications.

Compiling one application only

To compile only a part of sources (e.g. your own application), change the directory to where your applications resides and run

make

This will (re)compile everything in current directory and all subdirectories. The result of compilation can be found under the _compiled direcotry (located at root of h8300-boot directory structure). The structure of _compiled directory is as follows:

bin

binary programs for target system

bin-utils

binary programs for host system (PC) (note: This will probably change in future)

include

header files which are used when compiling for target

libs

compiled libraries for target

There is another directory called _build where intermediate products of compilation such as object files, linker maps and dependency descriptions are stored. You can delete files in _build corresponding to your application by issuing

make clean

If you want to delete both _compiled and _build directories, run

make distclean

Using non-default link variant

If your board has it's default link variant set for example to ram and you want to link your application for flash memory, you can use the following command to compile another variant of your program:

make link_VARIANTS=flash

You can use more variant at once by

make link_VARIANTS="flash ram"

Loading and running an application

To load an application to the target processor, run

make load

This load the application from current directory to either RAM or FLASH memory. Which one is selected depends on a value of DEFAULT_LD_SCRIPT_VARIANT variable. This variable can be set globally in config.target or locally in Makefile.omk and the first word of the value of this variable determines the default memory location for loading (and running).

If you want to load an application to different memory location, use one of

make load-flash
make load-ram

If there are more programs to load in the current directory, and you want to load a non-default one, you have to run

make load-<progname>-ram
make load-<progname>-flash

After loading your application, you can run it by running one of the following

make run
make run-ram
make run-flash

You can also combine loading and running to one step and use

make load run

Using KDevelop for development

KDevelop is very good IDE for developing various kind of applications. It can be easily used to develop software for H8300 processors and can be well integrated with OMK make-system.

If you want to use KDevelop for development, follow theese points:

1. Import project to KDevelop (from menu choose Project -> Import existing project). Select the type of project to Generic C Application (Custom Makefile)
   
2. (Optional) Populate your project with source files by anwering yes to the dialog.
   
3. Open Project Options dialog (menu Project -> Project Options) and choose Run Options. Select Run from the BUILD directory, to Main Program editbox write /usr/local/bin/make (you may have your make in a different directory) and as Program Arguments write load run.
   
4. Now you can compile your application by pressing F8 and if there are some errors, you can quickly jump the place in source whre the error is by pressing F4.
   
5. After successfull compilation you can run your application by clicking Execute program icon. I recomend you to create shortcut key F9 for this action. If you change your sources, you can booth recompile and execute your application by simply pressing F9.
   

Using TAGS for navigation in files

If you run

make TAGS

in any direcotry, the file TAGS in the toplevel directory of the project will be created. This file can be used by various editors (such as Emacs) for quick searching of symbols in source files.

Writing your own application

TODO:

Additional documentation

• Stanislav Marek's Diploma thesis - Documentation to OMK build system in Czech.