RTEMS Waf

RTEMS Waf is a module that supports the Waf build system and RTEMS. The module is integrated into a project or library providing Waf build support to create RTEMS libraries or executable.

RTEMS Waf provides:

Checking for a valid RTEMS installation of tools and kernel.
Support for multiple versions of RTEMS.
Support to build a number of BSPs at once.
Support for the RTEMS tools and kernel being installed under a shared or separate prefixes [2].
Flexible integration that allows easy project specific specialization.
Support to check which features RTEMS is built with.
Support for BSP compiler and linker flags. The flags are separated into their various types to allow flexible options management in a project.
Support to list the available architectures and BSPs.
Additional support for creating root file systems for RTEMS targets.

Bugs

Please report issues to the rtems_waf GitLab:

https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/tools/rtems_waf

Feedback is always welcome.

Waf

You can find the Waf project here:

https://waf.io/

Waf does not come as a package in distributions so you need to download and install it.

Waf is a Python program so you will also need to have a current Python installed and accessible via your environment's path.
Download the latest signed Waf executable file from the Waf website.
Place the waf executable in a personal directory that is in your path, for example $HOME/bin. Modify the file's permissions so it can be executed:
```
$ chmod +x $HOME/bin/waf
```

Git Submodule

RTEMS Waf can be used as a git submodule. This lets a number of projects share the common waf support.

Add RTEMS Waf a git submodule to your project:

$ cd my_project
$ git submodule add https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/tools/rtems_waf.git rtems_waf

Initialize the submodule(s) for your project:
```
$ git submodule init
```
Update the RTEMS Waf submodule:
```
$ git submodule update rtems_waf
```
Note: the rtems_waf submodule name is provided as some projects may have other submodules you may not wish to update.
When submodules are added they are headless which means they are not on a current branch. Switch to a branch:
```
$ cd rtems_waf
$ git checkout master
$ cd ..
```
Note: you can replace master in the checkout above with any valid branch in the RTEMS Waf repo.
Update the RTEMS Waf submodule to the latest version on the selected branch:
```
$ cd rtems_waf
$ git pull
$ cd ..
```
Check the new submodule is part of your project and ready to be committed:
```
$ git status
```
The rtems_waf module will be listed as modified.
Commit the change by adding it to your staged files:
```
$ git add rtems_waf
```
When ready commit:
```
$ git commit
```
Review the changes and if they are correct push them:
```
$ git log -p
$ git push
```

The RTEMS Waf module is updated from time to time as new features are added or changes happen in waf. To update a project's existing RTEMS Waf submodule perform steps 5. to 7.

Project Instructions

Create a README.waf file in your project and add the Waf installation section, your project specific options and the following steps. These steps are for RTEMS 5, change for the specific version of RTEMS your project supports.

Build or install the tools. In this example the path is the personal prefix of $HOME/development/rtems/5 ¹.
Build and install the RTEMS Board Support Packages you want to use. In this example separate tools and kernel prefixes are used ². The kernel path is $HOME/development/rtems/bsps/5.
Unpack this package somewhere, anywhere on your disk and change into the top level directory.

Populate the git submodule:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update rtems_waf

Configure with your specific settings. In this case the path to the tools and the kernel are separate and provided on the command line. Your environment's path variable does not need to changed ³. We limit the build to sparc/erc32 BSP:

$ waf configure --rtems=$HOME/development/rtems/bsps/5 \
                --rtems-tools=$HOME/development/rtems/5 \
                --rtems-bsps=sparc/erc32

You can use `--rtems-archs=sparc,i386` or
`--rtems-bsps=sparc/erc32,i386/pc586` to build more than BSP at a time.

Build:

$ waf

An RTEMS Waf Project

RTEMS Waf provides a base to build RTEMS application.

Waf provides a build system framework. You can use waf in your project by simply providing a list of files you wish to build and link to create an executable or you can use waf as framework which is integrated into your project to become is build system.

Importing RTEMS Waf

Using RTEMS Waf as a submodule means it may not be present if the submodules have not been initialized and updated. This results in a Python error. The following import is recommended so a user friendly error is reported:

 from __future__ import print_function

 try:
     import rtems_waf.rtems as rtems
 except:
     print('error: no rtems_waf git submodule; see README.waf', file = stderr)
     import sys
     sys.exit(1)

Initialization

The wscript init() function is called early in waf's processing. The RTEMS Waf's init() call lets you provide:

Filters
RTEMS Version
Long command line control
Waf BSP initialization hook

A example call to RTEMS Waf's init() is:

rtems_version = "5"

def init(ctx):
    rtems.init(ctx, version = rtems_version, long_commands = True)

Filters provide a way to control the tools, architectures and BSPs your project supports. RTEMS Waf scans and finds all installed RTEMS tool sets and BSPs and your project may only support a limited number of these. Filtering provides a way for your project to control what RTEMS Waf accepts and rejects when automatically scanning the installed tools and RTEMS kernels. A filter is a Python dictionary and the following example will accept arm and sparc tool chains and filtering out the bfin tool chain. The filter will only build the arm architecture and will accept all BSPs except ones starting with lpc if they are installed:

my_filter = { 'tools': { 'in': ['arm', 'sparc'], 'out': ['bfin'] },
              'arch':  { 'in': ['arm'],          'out': [] },
  	'bsps':  { 'in': [],               'out': ['lpc.*'] } }

There are three (3) filters the tools, archs and bsps and each of these filter types has an in and out list. The in and out items are Python regular expressions.

The RTEMS Version lets your project provide the default RTEMS version. This can be overridden by the configure option --rtems-version.

Long commands is specific to Windows and provides support for tool command lines that are longer than the standard Windows command shell's limit. The support is based on the example available in Waf extra's.

The Waf BSP initialization hook is a function called as part of the RTEMS Waf's init() call with the Waf environment and list of BSP contexts. This hook can be used to provide specialized BSP support.

Options

The wscript option() function is called to collect command line options for Waf argument processing.

A example call to RTEMS Waf's options() is:

def options(opt):
    rtems.options(opt)

Configure

The wscript configure() function is called when Waf is configuring a build. The RTEMS Waf's configure() lets you provide:

Waf BSP configure hook

A example call to RTEMS Waf's configure() is:

def configure(conf):
    rtems.configure(conf)

The BSP configure hook is called at end of a BSP's configuration. The BSP's conf variable and the arch/bsp are passed as arguments. The arch/bsp is the RTEMS standard for specifying a BSP, for example sparc/erc32. The BSP configure support can be used to check a BSP for header, check an RTEMS feature is present for a specific BSP or add per BSP build variant support:

def bsp_configure(conf, arch_bsp):
    conf.check(header_name = "dlfcn.h", features = "c")
    conf.check(header_name = "rtems/pci.h", features = "c", mandatory = False)
    if not rtems.check_posix(conf):
        conf.fatal("POSIX is disabled; configure RTEMS with --enable-posix")
    env = conf.env.derive()
    for builder in builders:
        ab = conf.env.RTEMS_ARCH_BSP
        variant = ab + "-" + builder
        conf.msg('Configure variant: ', variant)
        conf.setenv(variant, env)
        build_variant_bsp_configure(conf, arch_bsp)
        conf.setenv(ab)

Build

The wscript build() function is called when Waf is asking what to build.

A example call to RTEMS Waf's build() is:

def build(bld):
    rtems.build(bld)
    bld(features = 'c cprogram',
        target = 'hello.exe',
        source = ['hello.c'])

In this example the C source file hello.c is compiled and linked to create the RTEMS executable hello.exe. The build is within the context of the BSP.

Example

Save the following as wscript:

#
# Example Waf build script for RTEMS
#
# To configure, build and run:
#
# $ waf configure --rtems=$HOME/development/rtems/build/5 \
#                 --rtems-tools=$HOME/development/rtems/5 \
#                 --rtems-bsps=sparc/erc32
# $ waf
# $ $HOME/development/rtems/5/bin/sparc-rtems5-run \
#                             ./build/sparc-rtems5-erc32/hello.exe
#
# You can use '--rtems-archs=sparc,i386' or
# '--rtems-bsps=sparc/erc32,i386/pc586' to build for more than one BSP at a
# time.
#

from __future__ import print_function

rtems_version = "5"

try:
    import rtems_waf.rtems as rtems
except:
    print('error: no rtems_waf git submodule; see README.waf', file = stderr)
    import sys
    sys.exit(1)

def init(ctx):
    rtems.init(ctx, version = rtems_version, long_commands = True)

def options(opt):
    rtems.options(opt)

def configure(conf):
    rtems.configure(conf)

def build(bld):
    rtems.build(bld)
    bld.env.CFLAGS += ['-O2','-g']
    bld(features = 'c cprogram',
        target = 'hello.exe',
        source = ['hello.c'])

Save the example C hello world as hello.c:

#include <rtems.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

rtems_task Init(rtems_task_argument ignored) {
  printf("Hello World\n");
  exit(0);
}

/* configuration information */
#include <bsp.h>
#define CONFIGURE_APPLICATION_DOES_NOT_NEED_CLOCK_DRIVER
#define CONFIGURE_APPLICATION_NEEDS_CONSOLE_DRIVER
#define CONFIGURE_USE_DEVFS_AS_BASE_FILESYSTEM
#define CONFIGURE_RTEMS_INIT_TASKS_TABLE
#define CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_TASKS 1
#define CONFIGURE_INIT
#include <rtems/confdefs.h>

A personal prefix is private to you and located where you have enough disk space to complete an RTEMS installation. We often show this as your home directory ($HOME) because it works on machines you may not have root access to and cannot configure. We recommend you never work as root on a machine you control. ↩
RTEMS supports shared or separate tool and kernel prefixes. The prefix is the path given to the tools and kernel when building and is the path the tools or kernel are installed into when you run the install phase of a build. A shared tools and kernel prefix is often used with releases because the tools and kernel in a release are matched and do not change. Separate tools and kernel paths can be used if you have a common tool set with changing kernel versions. This tends to happen when you are testing kernel patches or changes. ↩
It is good practice to keep your environment as empty as possible. Using the environment to set paths to tools or specific values to configure and control builds is dangerous because settings can leak between different builds and change what you expect or not been and seen and lost. The waf tool used here lets you specify on the command line the tools and RTEMS paths and this is embedded in waf's configuration information. If you have a few source trees working at any one time with different tool sets or configurations you can easily move between them safe in the knowledge that one build will not affect another. ↩

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