This adds gradle support for building wpilibj and wpilibc. At this point, both of these libraries should be fully ready to go. Gradle should give us a number of improvements, including less dependencies for getting building up and running, and MUCH faster build times. I'm noticing significantly faster build times already compared to Maven, with neither system building the plugins. The changes here should be pretty straight forward. The basic command for gradle is './gradlew'. This is the gradle wrapper, and it will find and download the correct gradle executable for your system. There is no need to install anything yourself. To see every task available, run './gradlew tasks'. The important tasks for us are listed under the WPILib header when the tasks command is run. To generate unit test binaries, the fRCUserProgramExecutable command will create the C++ tester, and the wpilibjIntegrationTestJar command will create the Java tester. The Jenkins deploy scripts have been modified to know the difference between maven generated and gradle generated jars with an environment variable. Creating the eclipse plugins still requires Maven, but gradle will handle calling it correctly and generating the proper dependencies for it. Create the plugins by calling ./gradlew eclipsePlugins. Jenkins can now be modified to support the new build system. Unit tests are run with ./gradlew test. Generating the integration tests uses the above two commands, and then process proceeds exactly as it did before. For publishing documentation, a new task has been created, ./gradlew publishDocs, which handles putting the documentation where Jenkins expects for publishing. Change-Id: I9a260d391984f98ef9170993efe933e4026161dc
Purpose
The HAL is a hardware abstraction layer that provides a uniform interface that can be used to access a number of primarily I/O features in the underlying platform. The features include:
- Analog input, accumulation and triggers
- PWM, Relay and Solenoid output
- Digital input and output
- I2C and SPI communication
- Encoders and counters
- Interrupts and Notifiers
The initial goal is to allow a higher level like WPILib to support both the CRIO and the upcoming Athena platform only by changing which version of the HAL it's running on.
Editing
You can always use any text editor and then build with Maven. There
are also eclipse project files so that it can be edited in the same
eclipse environment that teams develop with. For the AthenaXX, this
can be found in the root directory of this project. It imports as an
FRC Robot C++ Eclipse project. The Windriver project can be imported
from the src directory.
Building with Maven
There are multiple build targets that the HAL supports. Instructions for setting up the environment and building each of these is described below. Current targets are listed below:
- All: All of the following targets.
- include: The header files for the HAL.
- Azalea: CRIO C++ build.
- AthenaXX: Athena Dos Equis C++ build.
- AthenaXXJava: Athena Dos Equis Java build with auto-generated JNA wrappers.
Output from each build target is placed in the directory
target/<target-name>. So, the Azalea output is placed in
target/Azalea.
All
Note: Windows only due to the Windriver requirement.
- Ensure that
C:\WindRiver\gnu\3.4.4-vxworks-6.3\x86-win32\binis on the system path so thatccppcandarppccan be accessed. - Set the environment variable
WIND_BASEtoC:\WindRiver\vxworks-6.3. - Ensure that
$HOME/wpilib/toolchains/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-4.4.1/bin/is on the system path so thatarm-none-linux-gnueabi-g++andarm-none-linux-gnueabi-arcan be accessed. - Checkout and install the NI-Libraries from Github: https://github.com/first/NI-Libraries.
- Run the following maven command:
mvn clean install - Success
include
cdinto the include directory:cd include- Run the following maven command:
mvn clean install - Success
Azalea
Note: Windows only.
- Ensure that
C:\WindRiver\gnu\3.4.4-vxworks-6.3\x86-win32\binis on the system path so thatccppcandarppccan be accessed. - Set the environment variable
WIND_BASEtoC:\WindRiver\vxworks-6.3. cdinto the AthenaXX directory:cd AthenaXXcdinto the Azalea directory:cd Azalea- Run the following maven command:
mvn clean install - Success
AthenaXX
- Ensure that
$HOME/wpilib/toolchains/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-4.4.1/bin/is on the system path so thatarm-none-linux-gnueabi-g++andarm-none-linux-gnueabi-arcan be accessed. - Install the include target.
cdinto the AthenaXX directory:cd AthenaXX- Run the following maven command:
mvn clean install - Success
AthenaXXJava
- Ensure that
$HOME/wpilib/toolchains/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-4.4.1/bin/is on the system path so thatarm-none-linux-gnueabi-g++andarm-none-linux-gnueabi-arcan be accessed. - Checkout and install the NI-Libraries from Github: https://github.com/first/NI-Libraries.
- Install the include target.
cdinto the AthenaXXJava directory:cd AthenaXXJava- Run the following maven command:
mvn clean install - Success