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| <div class="section" id="theory-of-operations"> |
| <h1>Theory of Operations<a class="headerlink" href="#theory-of-operations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> |
| <p>Newt has a fairly smart package manager that can read a directory tree, |
| build a dependency tree, and emit the right build artifacts.</p> |
| <div class="section" id="building-dependencies"> |
| <h2>Building dependencies<a class="headerlink" href="#building-dependencies" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>Newt can read a directory tree, build a dependency tree, and emit the |
| right build artifacts. An example newt source tree is in |
| mynewt-blinky/develop:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>tree<span class="w"> </span>-L<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">3</span> |
| <span class="go">.</span> |
| <span class="go">├── LICENSE</span> |
| <span class="go">├── NOTICE</span> |
| <span class="go">├── README.md</span> |
| <span class="go">├── apps</span> |
| <span class="go">│ └── blinky</span> |
| <span class="go">│ ├── pkg.yml</span> |
| <span class="go">│ └── src</span> |
| <span class="go">├── project.yml</span> |
| <span class="go">└── targets</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── my_blinky_sim</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ ├── pkg.yml</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ └── target.yml</span> |
| <span class="go"> └── unittest</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── pkg.yml</span> |
| <span class="go"> └── target.yml</span> |
| |
| <span class="go">6 directories, 9 files</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>When newt sees a directory tree that contains a “project.yml” file it knows that it is in the base directory of a project, |
| and automatically builds a package tree. You can see that there are two essential package directories, “apps” and “targets.”</p> |
| <div class="section" id="apps-package-directory"> |
| <h3>“apps” Package Directory<a class="headerlink" href="#apps-package-directory" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> |
| <p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">apps</span></code> is where applications are stored, and applications are where the main() function is contained. The base project |
| directory comes with one simple app called <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blinky</span></code> in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">apps</span></code> directory. The core repository <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">@apache-mynewt-core</span></code> |
| comes with many additional sample apps in its <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">apps</span></code> directory. At the time of this writing, there are several example BLE |
| apps, the boot app, slinky app for using newt manager protocol, and more in that directory.</p> |
| <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>ls<span class="w"> </span>repos/apache-mynewt-core/apps |
| <span class="go">blecent blehr blemesh_shell blesplit boot btshell lora_app_shell ocf_sample slinky splitty trng_test</span> |
| <span class="go">blecsc blemesh bleprph bletest bsncent ffs2native loraping pwm_test slinky_oic testbench</span> |
| <span class="go">blehci blemesh_light bleprph_oic bleuart bsnprph iptest lorashell sensors_test spitest timtest</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>Along with the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">targets</span></code> directory, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">apps</span></code> represents the top-level of the build tree for the particular project, and |
| define the dependencies for the rest of the system. Mynewt users and developers can add their own apps to the project’s <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">apps</span></code> directory.</p> |
| <p>The app definition is contained in a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pkg.yml</span></code> file. For example, blinky’s <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pkg.yml</span></code> file is:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>more<span class="w"> </span>apps/blinky/pkg.yml |
| <span class="go">pkg.name: apps/blinky</span> |
| <span class="go">pkg.type: app</span> |
| <span class="go">pkg.description: Basic example application which blinks an LED.</span> |
| <span class="go">pkg.author: "Apache Mynewt <dev@mynewt.apache.org>"</span> |
| <span class="go">pkg.homepage: "http://mynewt.apache.org/"</span> |
| <span class="go">pkg.keywords:</span> |
| |
| <span class="go">pkg.deps:</span> |
| <span class="go"> - "@apache-mynewt-core/kernel/os"</span> |
| <span class="go"> - "@apache-mynewt-core/hw/hal"</span> |
| <span class="go"> - "@apache-mynewt-core/sys/console/stub"</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>This file says that the name of the package is apps/blinky, and it depends on the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">kernel/os</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hw/hal</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys/console/stub</span></code> packages.</p> |
| <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> @apache-mynewt-core is a repository descriptor, and this will be |
| covered in the “repository” section.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section" id="targets-package-directory"> |
| <h3>“targets” Package Directory<a class="headerlink" href="#targets-package-directory" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> |
| <p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">targets</span></code> is where targets are stored, and each target is a collection of parameters that must be passed to newt in |
| order to generate a reproducible build. Along with the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">apps</span></code> directory, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">targets</span></code> represents the top of the build |
| tree. Any packages or parameters specified at the target level cascades down to all dependencies.</p> |
| <p>Most targets consist of:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p>app: The application to build</p></li> |
| <li><p>bsp: The board support package to combine with that application</p></li> |
| <li><p>build_profile: Either debug or optimized.</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">my_blinky_sim</span></code> target that is included by default has the following settings:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>newt<span class="w"> </span>target<span class="w"> </span>show |
| <span class="go">targets/my_blinky_sim</span> |
| <span class="go"> app=apps/blinky</span> |
| <span class="go"> bsp=@apache-mynewt-core/hw/bsp/native</span> |
| <span class="go"> build_profile=debug</span> |
| <span class="gp">$ </span>ls<span class="w"> </span>targets/my_blinky_sim/ |
| <span class="go">pkg.yml target.yml</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>There are helper functions to aid the developer specify parameters for a target.</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p><strong>vals</strong>: Displays all valid values for the specified parameter type (e.g. bsp for a target)</p></li> |
| <li><p><strong>target show</strong>: Displays the variable values for either a specific target or all targets defined for the project</p></li> |
| <li><p><strong>target set</strong>: Sets values for target variables</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>In general, the three basic parameters of a target (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">app</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bsp</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">build_profile</span></code>) are stored in the |
| target’s <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target.yml</span></code> file in the targets/<target-name> directory, where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target-name</span></code> is the name of the target. You |
| will also see a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pkg.yml</span></code> file in the same directory. Since targets are packages, a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pkg.yml</span></code> is expected. It contains |
| typical package descriptors, dependencies, and additional parameters such as the following:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p>Cflags: Any additional compiler flags you might want to specify to the build</p></li> |
| <li><p>Aflags: Any additional assembler flags you might want to specify to the build</p></li> |
| <li><p>Lflags: Any additional linker flags you might want to specify to the build</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>You can also override the values of the system configuration settings that are defined by the packages that your target |
| includes. You override the values in your target’s <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">syscfg.yml</span></code> file (stored in the targets/<target-name> directory). |
| You can use the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">newt</span> <span class="pre">target</span> <span class="pre">config</span> <span class="pre">show</span></code> command to see the configuration settings and values for your target, and use |
| the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">newt</span> <span class="pre">target</span> <span class="pre">set</span></code> command to set the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">syscfg</span></code> variable and override the configuration setting values. You can |
| also use an editor to create your target’s <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">syscfg.yml</span></code> file and add the setting values to the file. |
| See <a class="reference internal" href="../os/modules/sysinitconfig/sysinitconfig.html"><span class="doc">Compile-Time Configuration and Initialization</span></a> for more information on system configuration settings.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section" id="resolving-dependencies"> |
| <h2>Resolving dependencies<a class="headerlink" href="#resolving-dependencies" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>When newt builds a project, it will:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p>find the top-level project.yml file</p></li> |
| <li><p>recurse the packages in the package tree, and build a list of all source packages</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Newt then looks at the target that the user set, for example, blinky_sim:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>more<span class="w"> </span>targets/my_blinky_sim/target.yml |
| <span class="gp">#</span><span class="c1">## Target: targets/my_blinky_sim</span> |
| <span class="go">target.app: "apps/blinky"</span> |
| <span class="go">target.bsp: "@apache-mynewt-core/hw/bsp/native"</span> |
| <span class="go">target.build_profile: "debug"</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>The target specifies two major things:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p>Application (target.app): The application to build</p></li> |
| <li><p>Board Support Package (target.bsp): The board support package to build along with that application.</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Newt builds the dependency tree specified by all the packages. While building this tree, it does a few other things:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p>Sets up the include paths for each package. Any package that depends on another package, automatically gets the include |
| directories from the package it includes. Include directories in the |
| newt structure must always be prefixed by the package name. For example, kernel/os has the following include tree and its |
| include directory files contains the package name “os” before any header files. This is so in order to avoid any header file conflicts.</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>tree<span class="w"> </span>repos/apache-mynewt-core/kernel/os/include/ |
| <span class="go">repos/apache-mynewt-core/kernel/os/include/</span> |
| <span class="go">└── os</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── arch</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ ├── cortex_m0</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ └── os</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ └── os_arch.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ ├── cortex_m4</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ └── os</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ └── os_arch.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ ├── mips</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ └── os</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ └── os_arch.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ ├── sim</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ └── os</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ └── os_arch.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ └── sim-mips</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ └── os</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ └── os_arch.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── endian.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_callout.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_cfg.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_cputime.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_dev.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_eventq.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_fault.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_heap.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_malloc.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_mbuf.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_mempool.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_mutex.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_sanity.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_sched.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_sem.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_task.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_test.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── os_time.h</span> |
| <span class="go"> └── queue.h</span> |
| |
| <span class="go">12 directories, 25 files</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p>Validates API requirements. Packages can export APIs they |
| implement, (i.e. pkg.api: hw-hal-impl), and other packages can require |
| those APIs (i.e. pkg.req_api: hw-hal-impl).</p></li> |
| <li><p>Reads and validates the configuration setting definitions and values from the package <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">syscfg.yml</span></code> files. |
| It generates a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">syscfg.h</span></code> header file that packages include in the source files in order to access the settings. |
| It also generates a system initialization function to initialize the packages. |
| See <a class="reference internal" href="../os/modules/sysinitconfig/sysinitconfig.html"><span class="doc">Compile-Time Configuration and Initialization</span></a> for more information.</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>In order to properly resolve all dependencies in the build system, newt recursively processes the package dependencies |
| until there are no new dependencies. And it builds a big list of all the packages that need to be build.</p> |
| <p>Newt then goes through this package list, and builds every package into |
| an archive file.</p> |
| <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> The newt tool generates compiler dependencies for all of these packages, and only rebuilds the packages whose |
| dependencies have changed. Changes in package & project dependencies are also taken into account. It is smart, after all!</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section" id="producing-artifacts"> |
| <h2>Producing artifacts<a class="headerlink" href="#producing-artifacts" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>Once newt has built all the archive files, it then links the archive files together. The linkerscript to use is specified |
| by the board support package (BSP.)</p> |
| <p>The newt tool creates a bin directory under the base project directory, and places a target’s build artifacts into the |
| bin/targets/<target-name>/app/apps/<app-name> directory, where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target-name</span></code> is the name of the target and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">app-name</span></code> |
| is the name of the application. As an example, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blinky.elf</span></code> executable for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blinky</span></code> application defined by |
| the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">my_blinky_sim</span></code> target is stored in the bin/targets/my_blinky_sim/app/apps/blinky directory as shown in the following source tree:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$</span>tree<span class="w"> </span>-L<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">9</span><span class="w"> </span>bin/ |
| <span class="go">bin/</span> |
| <span class="go">└── targets</span> |
| <span class="go"> ├── my_blinky_sim</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ ├── app</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ ├── apps</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ └── blinky</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ ├── apps</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── blinky</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── src</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ ├── main.d</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ ├── main.o</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── main.o.cmd</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ ├── apps_blinky.a</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ ├── apps_blinky.a.cmd</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ ├── blinky.elf</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ ├── blinky.elf.cmd</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ ├── blinky.elf.dSYM</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── Contents</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ ├── Info.plist</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── Resources</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── DWARF</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ ├── blinky.elf.lst</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ └── manifest.json</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ ├── hw</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ ├── bsp</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── native</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ ├── hw_bsp_native.a</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ ├── hw_bsp_native.a.cmd</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── repos</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── apache-mynewt-core</span> |
| <span class="go"> │ │ │ │ └── hw</span> |
| |
| <span class="go"><snip></span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>As you can see, a number of files are generated:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p>Archive File</p></li> |
| <li><p>*.cmd: The command use to generate the object or archive file</p></li> |
| <li><p>*.lst: The list file where symbols are located</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Note: The *.o object files that get put into the archive file are stored in the bin/targets/my_blinky_sim/app/apps/blinky/apps/blinky/src directory.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section" id="download-debug-support"> |
| <h2>Download/Debug Support<a class="headerlink" href="#download-debug-support" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>Once a target has been built, there are a number of helper functions |
| that work on the target. These are:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li><p><strong>load</strong> Download built target to board</p></li> |
| <li><p><strong>debug</strong> Open debugger session to target</p></li> |
| <li><p><strong>size</strong> Size of target components</p></li> |
| <li><p><strong>create-image</strong> Add image header to target binary</p></li> |
| <li><p><strong>run</strong> The equivalent of build, create-image, load, and debug on specified target</p></li> |
| <li><p><strong>target</strong> Create, delete, configure, and query a target</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">load</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">debug</span></code> handles driving GDB and the system debugger. These |
| commands call out to scripts that are defined by the BSP.</p> |
| <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>more<span class="w"> </span>repos/apache-mynewt-core/hw/bsp/nrf52dk/nrf52dk_debug.sh |
| <span class="go"><snip></span> |
| <span class="go">. $CORE_PATH/hw/scripts/jlink.sh</span> |
| |
| <span class="go">FILE_NAME=$BIN_BASENAME.elf</span> |
| |
| <span class="go">if [ $# -gt 2 ]; then</span> |
| <span class="go"> SPLIT_ELF_NAME=$3.elf</span> |
| <span class="gp"> # </span>TODO<span class="w"> </span>--<span class="w"> </span>this<span class="w"> </span>magic<span class="w"> </span>number<span class="w"> </span>0x42000<span class="w"> </span>is<span class="w"> </span>the<span class="w"> </span>location<span class="w"> </span>of<span class="w"> </span>the<span class="w"> </span>second<span class="w"> </span>image |
| <span class="gp"> # </span>slot.<span class="w"> </span>we<span class="w"> </span>should<span class="w"> </span>either<span class="w"> </span>get<span class="w"> </span>this<span class="w"> </span>from<span class="w"> </span>a<span class="w"> </span>flash<span class="w"> </span>map<span class="w"> </span>file<span class="w"> </span>or<span class="w"> </span>somehow<span class="w"> </span>learn |
| <span class="gp"> # </span>this<span class="w"> </span>from<span class="w"> </span>the<span class="w"> </span>image<span class="w"> </span>itself |
| <span class="go"> EXTRA_GDB_CMDS="add-symbol-file $SPLIT_ELF_NAME 0x8000 -readnow"</span> |
| <span class="go">fi</span> |
| |
| <span class="go">JLINK_DEV="nRF52"</span> |
| |
| <span class="go">jlink_debug</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>The idea is that every BSP will add support for the debugger environment |
| for that board. That way common tools can be used across various |
| development boards and kits.</p> |
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