[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Compiling for Beaglebone

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Compiling for Beaglebone

[Justin Oursler]

Hello,

Can someone help get me started in cross-compiling batman-adv and
batctl?  Specifically, I'm wanting to run it on a Beaglebone running
Debian (http://beagleboard.org/project/debian/).  I already have the
arm-gnueabihf toolchain.

Thanks,

Justin

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Compiling for Beaglebone

[Simon Wunderlich]

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Hi Justin,



On Tuesday 03 November 2015 07:05:16 Justin Oursler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can someone help get me started in cross-compiling batman-adv and
> batctl?  Specifically, I'm wanting to run it on a Beaglebone running
> Debian (http://beagleboard.org/project/debian/).  I already have the
> arm-gnueabihf toolchain.

if you are running a recent Debian then it should be part of your Linux kernel 
already, so you can just use it by loading the batman-adv module. You might 
also want to install the batctl package to control batman. No need to compile 
anything unless you want to upgrade to the latest version.

Cheers,
    Simon

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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Compiling for Beaglebone

[Sven Eckelmann]

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On Tuesday 03 November 2015 07:05:16 Justin Oursler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can someone help get me started in cross-compiling batman-adv and
> batctl?  Specifically, I'm wanting to run it on a Beaglebone running
> Debian (http://beagleboard.org/project/debian/).  I already have the
> arm-gnueabihf toolchain.

Why not compiling batctl and batman-adv on the beagleboard? This would make 
the whole procedure a looooo[...]ooot easier. Just install build-essential, 
libnl-3-dev, pkg-config and the linux-headers for your kernel.

I don't know what kernel you currently have installed and where it comes from. 
But one of the kernels for this board comes from paulliu [1] and he gives you 
the kernel headers for his kernel in the linux-headers package [2].

Otherwise you would need the same toolchain used to build the kernel, kernel 
headers, config, libraries, ... and a lot of time and nerves. And when kernel 
headers and toolchain is not provided for your kernel then you have to build 
your own kernel anyway and then you can build your module against it [3].

Kind regards,
	Sven

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/TI/BeagleBone
[2] https://people.debian.org/~paulliu/beaglebone/
[3] http://azkeller.com/blog/?p=129 (REMARK: KDIR is called KERNELPATH in
    batman-adv)

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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Compiling for Beaglebone

[jens]

hoi,

ive done something similar for raspberry pi some days ago,
also suggesting to build on thedevice directly ...
see :
http://viisauksena.de/blog/raspberry-pi-und-freifunk-freiburg-or-batman-adv-mesh-network/
and maybe https://cccfr.de/wiki/freifunk:debian

greetz, jens

On 03.11.2015 13:05, Justin Oursler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone help get me started in cross-compiling batman-adv and
> batctl?  Specifically, I'm wanting to run it on a Beaglebone running
> Debian (http://beagleboard.org/project/debian/).  I already have the
> arm-gnueabihf toolchain.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin

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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Compiling for Beaglebone

[tjhowse]

I second the compile-on-device approach. It adds a bit of complexity
to your development chain, but it's oh-so-much simpler. A few years
ago I spent a long while failing to get together all the requirements
for cross-compiling to a beaglebone. I gave up and was compiling on
the device within half an hour.

On 4 November 2015 at 09:36, jens <jens@viisauksena.de> wrote:
> hoi,
>
> ive done something similar for raspberry pi some days ago,
> also suggesting to build on thedevice directly ...
> see :
> http://viisauksena.de/blog/raspberry-pi-und-freifunk-freiburg-or-batman-adv-mesh-network/
> and maybe https://cccfr.de/wiki/freifunk:debian
>
> greetz, jens
>
> On 03.11.2015 13:05, Justin Oursler wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can someone help get me started in cross-compiling batman-adv and
>> batctl?  Specifically, I'm wanting to run it on a Beaglebone running
>> Debian (http://beagleboard.org/project/debian/).  I already have the
>> arm-gnueabihf toolchain.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justin
>
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