icub-firmware-shared

This file contains instructions about how to use this repository. Created by "Marco Accame marco.accame@iit.it" on 29 October 2015.

A. What the repository contains

This repository contains source code and include files which are commonly used by icub-main and icub-firmware repositories.

B. How to use the repository

The way this repository is used depends whether one wants to compile for icub-firmware or for icub-main. Here are the two cases.

B.1 Case of use with icub-firmware

The repositories icub-firmware and icub-firmware-shared must be placed in the same folder as in the following tree structure:

<folder> ---
            |--<icub-firmware>
            |
            |--<icub-firmware-shared>

Nothing else is required because projects inside icub-firmware will directly refer to source files using a relative path (which contains the string icub-firmware/../icub-firmware-shared/).

B.2 Case of use with icub-main

So far, the repository icub-firmware-shared is used to compile only on the pc104. to do so, one must:

• Create a build subfolder into icub-firmware-shared: mkdir build-pc104
• cd inside the build-pc104 folder: cd build-pc104
• Call ccmake ..
• Digit c as many times are required and then g to generate the makefile.
• Run make to generate the correct dependencies required by icub-main (actually this step is not strictly required).

At this point a run of ccmake ../ in icub-main build folder will be able to find the suitable dependencies for icub-firmware-shared.

Wireshark dissector for embObj

The repository also contains a Wireshark Dissector for simplifying the reading of dumps of embObj data in Wireshark, contained in the source code at eth/embobj_wireshark.lua and that is installed at share/icub_firwmware_shared/embobj_wireshark.lua .

To install the Wireshark dissector, locate the "Personal Lua Plugins" used by your WireShark installation by opening Wireshark and navigating to Help -> About Wireshark -> Folders, and find the "Personal Lua Plugins" location, then copy the embobj_wireshark.lua file to it.

For example on linux, you can just copy the embobj_wireshark.lua file to ~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins:

mkdir -p ~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins
cp ./eth/embobj_wireshark.lua ~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins

Maintainers

This repository is maintained by:

	@marcoaccame