[ArduPilot] building the Firmware

Ubuntu

regis@lemaker:~$ sudo apt-get install gawk

regis@lemaker:~$ git clone https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot

regis@lemaker:~$ ardupilot/Tools/scripts/install-prereqs-ubuntu.sh -y

regis@lemaker:~$ cd ardupilot/ArduCopter

regis@lemaker:~/ardupilot/ArduCopter$ make

Targets

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  apm1 - the APM1 board

  apm2 - the APM2 board

  px4-v1 - the PX4v1 board

  px4-v2 - the Pixhawk

  pxf - the Beagle Bone Black (BBB) + PXF cape combination

  navio - the RaspberryPi + NavIO cape combination

  linux - a generic Linux build

  flymaple - the FlyMaple board

  vrbrain - the VRBrain boards

  sitl - the SITL Software In The Loop simulation

  bbbmini - the Beagle Bone Black mini

regis@lemaker:~/ardupilot/ArduCopter$ make linux

Setting up SITL on Linux

Tool chain:

sudo apt-get install libtool automake autoconf libexpat1-dev

sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib python-serial python-wxgtk2.8 python-lxml

sudo apt-get install python-scipy python-opencv ccache gawk git python-pip python-pexpect

sudo pip install pymavlink MAVProxy

sudo pip install --upgrade pymavlink MAVProxy

source code:

git clone git://github.com/tridge/jsbsim.git

build process:

cd jsbsim/

git pull

./autogen.sh --enable-libraries

make

modify the file .bashrc 

regis@lemaker:~$ nano .bashrc

# add by Regis for SITL, 2015-06-20

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/jsbsim/src

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/ardupilot/Tools/autotest

export PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH

regis@lemaker:~$ . ~/.bashrc

regis@lemaker:~$ cd ardupilot/ArduCopter/

regis@lemaker:~/ardupilot/ArduCopter$ sim_vehicle.sh -w

upload the firmware to PX4 board
make px4-v2-upload