DevGuide/SampleAp

This page is intended as a HOWTO for paparazzi developer. Instead of presenting the build system in a formal way, we will walk you through the creation of a sample application in Paparazzi. This application is targeted to run on a Lisa/L board. It will consist in receiving data from an IMU connected to the STM32, pass it to the overo which will downlink them to the ground segment for displaying. This will allow us to cover the build system

Airframe file and brief presentation of the build system

Paparazzi build system is pretty flexible, but can seem complex at a first glance. It is able to cross compile code for different architectures ( avr, lpc21, stm32, geode, omap3 for the moment ). The makefile responsible for a particular architecture is conf/Makefile.[avr|arm7|stm32|...]

It is also able to build software for different vehicles. So for a given vehicle, everything starts with a xml file, stored in conf/airframes/my_vehicle.xml. This file is processed by the build system to generate one header and one makefile.

The list of available vehicles is in conf/conf.xml