Hi, Jason! This article is awesome! Thanks for sharing this.
By the way, the links in step 2 and 3 seem broken. Would you please give us the correct links? Also, why does step 9 require running make"twice"? I'm curious. -- HDF: Software that Powers Science On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:53 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > > > This article describes the procedures of cross-compiling a HDF5 software > library used on Boundary Nitrogen6W development board from an Ubuntu desktop > virtual machine. Hearted with a Quad-Core ARM® Cortex A9 i.MX6 processor, > the development board is used to test our HDF5 programs and other Fusion > programs. The special steps that are needed to go through to accomplish the > cross-platform compilation are described in details in the following > sections. > > Compilation environment > > Host system: > > Virtual Machine: Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit on Windows 7 > gcc: version 4.6.3-1ubuntu5 > > Target system: > > Development board: Boundary Nitrogen 6W > Compilation toolchain: armv7l-timesys-linux-gnueabi > Assigned DeviceIP = Your.Device.IP.Address > > Compilation procedures > > Download HDF5 source version 1.8.11 from HDF website. Note HDFPath = > "/Your/Path/To/hdf5-1.8.11". > Install the Timesys Nitrogen6X toolchain as directed in Wiki page. Note > TimesysToolChainPath = "/Your/Path/To/timesys/nitrogen6x/toolchain/bin/". > Save the following file CMakeCache.txtto the directory that HDFPath refers > to and overwrite the existing file in the directory with the file to be > saved. > Create a folder named as "arm-bin" in the HDFPath folder. > Start CMake-Gui and perform the following steps: > > In the CMake-Gui window, set both the "Where is the source code:" and "Where > to build the binaries:" edits to HDFPath (the red circle); > Change all the paths that contain "/home/precise/hdf5-1.8.11/arm-bin" to > HDFPath/arm-bin (the yellow circle); > Change all the paths that conatain > "/home/precise/timesys/nitrogen6x/toolchain/bin/armv7l-timesys-linux-gnueabi-" > to TimesysToolChainPath/armv7l-timesys-linux-gnueabi-" (the green circles). > > Repeat clicking on the Configure button until the configuring is done > successfully. > Click on the Generate button to generate Makefile. > In the "/" directory of the minicom terminal, make sure there is a tmp > directory; if there is none, create it. > In an Ubuntu terminal, change to the HDFPath directory; then run make > command TWICE from the directory. > In the above directory, run command export DeviceIP=192.168.1.200. > In the same directory, run the following three commands in sequence to > transfer the corresponding files to the appropriate directories on the > device system: > > sudo scp ./libhdf5.settings root@$DeviceIP:/libhdf5.settings > sudo scp ./arm-bin/H5detect root@$DeviceIP:/tmp > sudo scp ./arm-bin/H5make_libsettings root@$DeviceIP:/tmp > > In the "/" directory of the minicom terminal, run the following two commands > to generate two special C files that are to be used for building the HDF5 > library: > > ./tmp/H5make_libsettings > ./tmp/H5lib_settings.c > ./tmp/H5detect> ./tmp/H5T_init.c > > In the HDFPath directory of the above Ubuntu terminal, run the following two > commands to transfer the two C files back to the desktop system from the > device system: > > sudo scp root@$DeviceIP:/tmp/H5T_init.c./H5Tinit.c > sudo scp root@$DeviceIP:/tmp/H5lib_settings.c ./ > > In the HDFPath directory of the above Ubuntu terminal, run make command > again until the build operations finish successfully. > So far the HDF5 shared library files and other created executable files are > located in the "./arm-bin folder". You can copy the library files to > whichever destination places where you want to use the library from in your > applications. > > Any comments will be welcome. > > > > Jason > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org > _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org
