Compiling and Uploading Code

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adrnp edited this page Apr 10, 2015 · 4 revisions

Windows

Following the compile and upload steps here

Console

This is for Mac, Linux and Windows using the PX4 console. Please follow the following steps:

Navigate to your Firmware directory
Build the archives (this only needs to be done your first time)
```
 make distclean
 make archives
```
make the code:
```
 make px4fmu-v2_aa241x
```
Upload the code (do not plug in the pixhawk until instructed to do so by the build process)

Run the following to begin the compiling and upload process
```
 make upload px4fmu-v2_aa241x
```
Once the code has been built you should see the following, which will indicate you should plug in your pixhawk to your computer:
```
 Loaded firmware for 9,0, waiting for the bootloader...
 Found board 9,0 bootloader rev 3 on /dev/tty.usbmodem1
```

Some notes on building the code:

you should never have to remake the archives, for you Windows folks it may take a while to make the archives so thankfully that only needs to be done once
when you simply modify code in the existing files, you simply need to rerun
```
 make upload px4fmu-v2_aa241x
```
if you want to immediately upload the updates. If you simply want to check to see if you added no errors, run
```
 make px4fmu-v2_aa241x
```
If you have added files to the code, you must clean the directory before you rebuild the firmware, so you will need to execute the following:
```
 make clean
 make px4fmu-v2_aa241x (or make upload if you want to upload immediately)
```