development How to set up for Firmware Development (under Linux)

[tschak909]

#Atari8bit This video focuses on setting up #VSCode and #PlatformIO under Linux (as an example), so that you can hack on #FujiNet #ESP32 firmware! (or, just get a head start on builds before they reach production!)

 

[apc]

Nice! Thx

 

NB: C'est la Vie - happy to make money like this 🙂

 

[E474]

Thanks!

 

The following should install Visual Studio Code, cc65 and fix the dialout issue on Debian 11 (Bullseye), and similar 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu distributions.

 

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential git python3-venv python3-distutils wget apt-transport-https cc65
wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'
rm -f packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo apt update
sudo apt install code

sudo usermod -aG dialout ${USER}

I cribbed adding the Visual Studio Code repositories from: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux - which also includes steps for other Linux distributions.

 

You still need to do the Platform IO setup inside Visual Studio Code (from about 7 minutes onwards in the video), but the above should automate a reasonable number of steps.

 

You'll need to logout and log back in again for the addition of the "dialout" group to your id to take effect.

 

N.B. I still have to build my FujiNet, so can't do any actual testing of FujiNet coding, but the above will install the tool-chain, as far as I can tell.