Onethinx Core Linux dependencies pack

How to setup Visual Studio Code with the Onethinx Core dependencies pack

1. Download prerequisites

• VS Code
  • Download Visual Studio Code
• Onethinx Dependencies Pack
  • Download the Onethinx dependencies pack for Linux
• CMake
  • Install CMake: sudo apt install cmake

2. Install VS Code & extensions

• Install VS Code.
• Install extensions:
  • ARM Support For Visual Studio Code (dan-c-underwood)
  • C/C++ IntelliSense, debugging (microsoft)
  • CMake language support (twxs)
  • CMake Tools (microsoft)
  • Cortex-Debug GDB support (marus25)
  • Power Tools (e.GO Mobile)
  • LinkerScript support for GNU (Zixuan Wang)
  • Open in Application (Fabio Spampinato)
  • Output Colorizer (IBM)
  • Tasks (actboy168)
• Apply the OpenOCD USB rules by running yourpath/VSCode_OnethinxPack_Linux/tools_2.0/linux/openocd/udev_rules/install_rules.sh.

3. Install the Onethinx Dependencies Pack

• Unzip the pack archive to your local harddisk (eg: /Applications/VSCode_OnethinxPack_Linux).
  Hint: you might want to remove '-master' at the end of the folder name.
• Open ~.profile: Terminal >> cd ~ && nano .profile
  or when using Bash shell:
  open ~.bash_profile: Terminal >> cd ~ && nano .bash_profile
• Add this to the end of the file (make sure you enter the correct path) and save:

  # Loading environment variables for the Onethinx Pack
  source /locationOfYour/VSCode_OnethinxPack_Linux/variables.env
  

• Set the correct path in this pack's variables.env file.
• Restart your machine (or log-out and log-in) to reload the environment variables.

4. Check

• If CMake, Make and the compiler is correctly installed by typing the following into your terminal or terminal window of VS Code.
  • cmake -version
  • make -v
  • arm-none-eabi-gcc -v
• If you have not done this yet, download the Hello World from https://ghithub.com/onethingx/VSCode_HelloWorld
  • If this builds without error, the Onethinx build suite has been installed properly.

5. Remind

• After changing the device configuration (or project file structure) to use
  • Clean Reconfigure
  • Clean Rebuild in order to build the image properly
• To delete the contents of the build folder
  • if you copied the project including build folder from another location / machine
  • when build fails.