ROS Setups

Instructions and scripts for the installation of ROS on various platforms, such as Odroid and Intel Edison.

Building the Edison Debian Image

System Requirements

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Doesn't work on 16.04 LTS)

It takes about 4-5 hours build time depending on number of CPU cores.

References

1. How to Build Debian Image for Edison
2. Building Debian Linux for Intel Edison
3. Building a Custom Debian Image for the Intel Edison

Create a Directory for Building the Images

cd ~
mkdir -p ~/src/edison
cd ~/src/edison

Install Build Dependencies

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential git diffstat gawk chrpath texinfo libtool gcc-multilib debootstrap u-boot-tools debian-archive-keyring python curl

Download Latest Source

curl -O http://downloadmirror.intel.com/25028/eng/edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz

Uncompress the Source Files

tar xfvz edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz

Get Started

Create two resource directories so we can rebuild the images without fetching support file twice

mkdir bitbake_download_dir
mkdir bitbake_sstate_dir

To take advantage of parallelization, change parallel_make and bb_number_thread to equal to the number of cores available.

./meta-intel-edison/setup.sh --dl_dir=bitbake_download_dir --sstate_dir=bitbake_sstate_dir --deb_packages --parallel_make=40 --bb_number_thread=40

Setup Enviroment Variables

cd out/linux64
source poky/oe-init-build-env

Edit Some Errors

1. paho-mqtt_3.1.bb
   sudo nano ~/src/edison/edison-src/linux64/poky/meta-intel-iot-middleware/recipes-connectivity/paho-mqtt/paho-mqtt_3.1.bb⋅⋅ and change SRC_URI from git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/paho/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.c.git
   to git://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.c.git

2. edison-images.bb
   sudo nano ~/src/edison/edison-src/meta-intel-edison/meta-intel-edison-distro/recipes-core/images/edison-images.bb
   Comment the following lines
   IMAGE_INSTALL += "iotkit-comm-js"
IMAGE_INSTALL += "iotkit-comm-c-dev"

Building the Image (Part 1)

Now we are ready to build the image. I will take several hours, around 5 hours. (It takes 20 mins on a 40-core CPU :P)

run bitbake edison-image

Building the Image (Part 2)

cd ~/src/edison-src
sudo nano meta-intel-edison/utils/create-debian-image.sh

1. Change build_dir=$top_repo_dir/build to build_dir=$top_repo_dir/out/linux64/build

2. Change fsize=$((`stat --printf="%s" toFlash/edison-image-edison.ext4` / 524288)) to fsize=$((`stat --printf="%s" toFlash/edison-image-edison.ext4` / 524288 * 2))

3. Change $CHROOTCMD dpkg -i /tmp/deb/edison/kernel-image-3.10.17-poky-edison+_1.0-r2_i386.deb
$CHROOTCMD dpkg -i /tmp/deb/edison/kernel-3.10.17-poky-edison+_1.0-r2_i386.deb
   to $CHROOTCMD dpkg -i /tmp/deb/edison/kernel-image-3.10.98-poky-edison+_1.0-r2_i386.deb $CHROOTCMD dpkg -i /tmp/deb/edison/kernel-3.10.98-poky-edison+_1.0-r2_i386.deb

Finally, we cleared all the mistakes in the scripts.

sudo ./meta-intel-edison/utils/create-debian-image.sh

The flashable image is build in out/linux64/build/toFlash