DAPLink Developers Guide

Setup

DAPLink sources can be compiled using Keil MDK-ARM or mbed cli tool with arm compiler, which could be run both on Linux and Windows. See here for test instructions on both OS and Mac.

Install the necessary tools listed below. Skip any step where a compatible tool already exists.

• Install Python 2, 2.7.11 or above . Add to PATH.
• Install Git . Add to PATH.
• Install Keil MDK-ARM, preferably version 5. Set environment variable "UV4" to the absolute path of the UV4 executable if you don't install to the default location. Note that "UV4" is what's used for both MDK versions 4 and 5. This step can be skipped if you plan to use mbed cli, but you still need Arm Compiler 5, and MDK is required to debug.
• Install virtualenv in your global Python installation eg: pip install virtualenv.

Step 1. Initial setup.

Get the sources and create a virtual environment

$ git clone https://github.com/mbedmicro/DAPLink
$ cd DAPLink
$ pip install virtualenv
$ virtualenv venv

Step 2. One-time mbed-cli setup.

This step is only required once if you are planning to use the mbed-cli build method.

First run step 3 below to activate the virtual environment. Then execute these commands.

$ mbed deploy
$ mbed config root .
$ mbed config ARM_PATH <FULL_PATH_TO_ARMCC_FOLDER>

Activate virtual environment

Step 3. Activate the virtual environment and update requirements. This is necessary when you open a new shell. This should be done every time you pull new changes

$ venv/Scripts/activate   (For Linux)
$ venv/Scripts/activate.bat   (For Windows)
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Build

This should be done every time you pull new changes

There are two ways to build DAPLink. You can generate Keil MDK project files and build within MDK. MDK is also used to debug DAPLink running on the interface chip. Or, you can use the mbedcli_compile.py script to build projects from the command line without requiring MDK.

Step 4.1. For MDK progen compilation.

This command generates MDK project files under the projectfiles/uvision directory.

$ progen generate -t uvision

To only generate one specific project, use a command like this:

progen generate -f projects.yaml -p stm32f103xb_stm32f746zg_if -t uvision

These options to progen set the parameters:

• -f for the input projects file
• -p for the project name
• -t to specify the IDE name

Step 4.2. For mbed-cli project compilation

This command will build all projects:

$ tools/mbedcli_compile.py

To build only a subset of projects, add the project name(s) to the end of the command line. Valid project names are listed in the usage text shown with --help. The first time you build after each pull you should add --clean to perform a complete re-build.

Contribute

We would love to have your changes! Pull requests should be made once a changeset is rebased onto Master. See the contributing guide for detailed requirements and guidelines for contributions.

Mbed-cli compile environment

Features

• Support both Python 2.x and 3.x versions.
• Can compile a list of projects or the all of the projects.
• Can generate the release directory with one command.

Prerequisite

mbed-cli is included in requirements.txt, so it will be installed automatically when configuring your development environment using the steps described above.

tools/mbedcli_compile.py script

Arguments

positional arguments:
  projects              Selectively compile only the firmware specified
                        otherwise all projects

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --release             Create a release with the yaml version file
  --build-folder BUILD_FOLDER
                        Release directory to grab files from
  --release-folder RELEASE_FOLDER
                        Directory to create and place files in
  --toolchain TOOLCHAIN
                        Toolchain directory if present
  --clean               Rebuild or delete build folder before compile
  -v                    Pass verbosity level to mbed compile  -vv for more

Valid projects are listed on help.

Generate files needed by mbed-cli

• custom_profile.json lists toolchain profile or compile flags parsed from the yaml files
• custom_targets.json contains platform information for specific hics.
• .mbedignore filters all files not needed for the project.

Port

There are three defined ways in which DAPLink can be extended. These are adding target support, adding board support and adding HIC support. Details on porting each of these can be found below.

• Adding a new target
• Adding a new board
• Adding a new HIC

Test

DAPLink has an extensive set of automated tests written in Python. They are used for regression testing, but you can use them to validate your DAPLink port. Details are here

An option to search for the daplink firmware build in uvision and mbedcli build folders. python test/run_test.py --project-tool mbedcli ... or python test/run_test.py --project-tool uvision ....

Release

Release using uvision

DAPLink contains scripts to automate most of the steps of building a release. In addition to building the release, these scripts also save relevant build information such as git SHA and python tool versions so the same build can be reproduced. The recommended steps for creating a release are below.

• Create a tag with the correct release version and push it to github
• Clean the repo you will be building from by running 'git clean -xdf' followed by 'git reset --hard'
• Run the script build_release_uvision.bat to create all builds.
• All release deliverables will be created and stored in 'uvision_release'. Save this wherever your builds are stored.

Note: A previous build can be reproduced by using the build_requirements.txt of that build. To do this add the additional argument build_requirements.txt when calling build_release_uvision.bat in step 2. This will install and build with the exact version of the python packages used to create that build.

Release using mbedcli

If the project list is not specify, all interface and booloader projects will be compiled. If --release_version is given, a folder (firmware on default or specified by --release_folder, to be concatenated with the version number), will be generated with the bin, update.yml and zip file containing the bins for release

$ venv/Scripts/activate
$ pip install -r requirements3.txt
$ tools/mbedcli_compile.py --release_version 0250 --release_folder firmware

There is an intermediate step in uvision environment in creating a release directory. This step is not needed in mbedcli environment but to make this equivalent directory invoke copy_release_files.py --project-tool mbedcli To make a release directory from the step above. package_release_files.py SRC_DIR DEST_DIR VERSION_NUMBER --toolchain ARM

MDK

If you want to use the MDK (uVision) IDE to work with the DAPLink code, you must launch it in the right environment. The project will fail to build otherwise. To launch uVision properly, use tools/launch_uvision.bat

This script can take arguments to override default virtual environment and python packages to be installed. For example tools\launch_uvision.bat other_env other_requirements.txt