allwpilib/Building.md

Building everything requires Maven mvn package -DembeddedJDKHome=/home/patrick/Downloads/arm-jdk1.7.0_45/ TODO... Explain maven.... TODO.. how to import into eclipse correctly...

Building C++ only

C++ requires cmake if not run from maven, and is much faster. Make a new directory and then run:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../arm-toolchain.cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles"
make # multicore add -j(num of cpu cores + 1), so -j3 on dual core for faster compile
make install DESTDIR=/some/dir/you/want/to/put/all/headers/and/libs #optional
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Note that you will receive a warning about libstdc++, but the build should complete successfully

Alternatively, if you like IDEs, you can import it directly into QtDeveloper, or a number of other IDEs such as Code::Blocks or Eclipse. See CMake documentation for details.
Eclipse demo:

cd .. mkdir build && cd build cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../allwpilib/arm-toolchain.cmake .. -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles"

and then import that directory into eclipse. Eclipse will detect a CDT project and standard tools will work.

GCC versions
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Update arm-toolchain.cmake if the triplet changes (eg using Ubuntu repo arm compiler is arm-linux-gnueabi) or in a non-standard location. Currently it assumes that the compiler is on the path.