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Binaries

Pre-built binaries for various boards are hosted inside the software/Pixhawk_builds directory inside NimbusLab's Box.

Cloning

When cloning this repository, fetch all submodules (thanks Pedro): git clone --recurse-submodules <repository>

Building on Debian

Getting ardupilot to build on Debian is a little more involved, and the people behind the show seem to like Ubuntu better. If using the usual installation script on a Debian machine, read on.

# want to check if this is a Debian install?
if lsb_release -a 2> /dev/null | grep -c "Debian"; then
  echo "yay";
else
  echo "nay"
fi

Tell dpkg that you will work with a new architechture:

# set architecture for cross-compiling
sudo dpkg add-architecture armhf

# update repositories to reflect new architecture tools
sudo apt-get update

then install a bunch of packages:

## "pkg-config-arm-linux-gnueabihf" referenced in the install script is NOT a
## debian package (up until 9.5 Stretch). Be decent and install base debian 
## packages first (it'll also pull in a bunch of other stuff - choose wisely, or
## get more disk space)
sudo apt-get install crossbuild-essential-armhf

## Installing binutils is not critical (maybe?), but it helps with the crossbuild stuff
## NOTE: this will pull in build tools for Fortran, Go, ObjC ... bye bye disk space :)
sudo apt-get install binutils-arm-none-eabi
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi --no-install-recommends

NOW you can run the install prereq script. Removed a couple of things from there: pkg-config-arm-linux-gnueabihf (like I said, NOT A DEBIAN PACKAGE) python-opencv (don't need more of that, ROS install brings it in)