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README
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^^^^^^
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o Installation
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o Configuring NuttX
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o Toolchains
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o Building NuttX
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o Documentation
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INSTALLATION
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Installing Cygwin
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NuttX may be installed and built on a Linux system or on a Windows
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system if Cygwin is installed. Installing Cygwin on your Windows PC
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is simple, but time consuming. See http://www.cygwin.com/ for
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installation instructions. Basically you just need to download a
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tiny setup.exe program and it does the real, internet installation
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for you.
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Some Cygwin installation tips:
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1. Install at C:\cygwin
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2. Install EVERYTHING: "Only the minimal base packages from the
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Cygwin distribution are installed by default. Clicking on categories
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and packages in the setup.exe package installation screen will
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provide you with the ability to control what is installed or updated.
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Clicking on the "Default" field next to the "All" category will
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provide you with the opportunity to install every Cygwin package.
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Be advised that this will download and install hundreds of megabytes
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to your computer."
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If you use the "default" installation, you will be missing many
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of the Cygwin utilities that you will need to build NuttX. The
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build will fail in numerous places because of missing packages.
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After installing Cygwin, you will get lots of links for installed
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tools and shells. I use the RXVT native shell. It is fast and reliable
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and does not require you to run the Cygwin X server (which is neither
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fast nor reliable). The rest of these instructions assume that you
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are at a bash command line prompt in either Linux or in Cygwin shell.
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Download and Unpack:
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Download and unpack the NuttX tarball. If you are reading this, then
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you have probably already done that. After unpacking, you will end
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up with a directory called nuttx-version (where version is the NuttX
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version number). You might want to rename that directory nuttx to
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match the various instructions in the documentation and some scripts
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in the source tree.
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Installation Directories with Spaces in the Path
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The nuttx build directory should reside in a path that contains no
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spaces in any higher level directory name. For example, under
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Cygwin, your home directory might be formed from your first and last
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names like: "/home/First Last". That will cause strange errors when
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the make system tries to build.
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[Actually, that problem is probably not to difficult to fix. Some
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Makefiles probably just need some paths within double quotes]
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I work around spaces in the home directory name, by creating a
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new directory that does not contain any spaces, such as /home/nuttx.
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Then I install NuttX in /home/nuttx and always build from
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/home/nuttx/nuttx.
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A Note about Header Files:
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Some toolchains are built with header files extracted from a C-library
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distribution (such as newlib). For those toolchains, NuttX must be
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compiled without using the standard header files that are distributed
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with your toolchain. This prevents including conflicting, incompatible
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header files (such as stdio.h).
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Certain header files, such as setjmp.h and varargs.h, may still be
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needed from your toolchain, however. If that is the case, one solution
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is to copy those header file from your toolchain into the NuttX include
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directory.
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Also, if you prefer to use the stdint.h and stdbool.h header files from
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your toolchain, those could be copied into the include/ directory too.
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Using most other header files from your toolchain would probably cause
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errors.
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CONFIGURING NUTTX
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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"Canned" NuttX configuration files are retained in:
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configs/<board-name>/<config-dir>
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Where <board-name> is the name of your development board and <config-dir>.
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Configuring NuttX requires only copying three files from the <config-dir>
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to the directly where you installed NuttX (TOPDIR):
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Copy configs/<board-name>/<config-dir>/Make.def to ${TOPDIR}/Make.defs
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Make.defs describes the rules needed by you tool chain to compile
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and link code. You may need to modify this file to match the
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specific needs of your toolchain.
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Copy configs/<board-name>/<config-dir>/setenv.sh to ${TOPDIR}/setenv.sh
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setenv.sh is an optional convenience file that I use to set
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the PATH variable to the toolchain binaries. You may chose to
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use setenv.sh or not. If you use it, then it may need to be
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modified to include the path to your toolchain binaries.
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Copy configs/<board-name>/<config-dir>/defconfig to ${TOPDIR}/.config
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The defconfig file holds the actual build configuration. This
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file is included by all other make files to determine what is
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included in the build and what is not. This file is also used
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to generate a C configuration header at include/nuttx/config.h.
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General information about configuring NuttX can be found in:
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${TOPDIR}/configs/README.txt
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${TOPDIR}/configs/<board-name>/README.txt
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There is a configuration script in the tools/ directory that makes this
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easier. It is used as follows:
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cd ${TOPDIR}/tools
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./configure.sh <board-name>/<config-dir>
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TOOLCHAINS
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^^^^^^^^^^
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Cross-Development Toolchains
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In order to build NuttX for your board, you will have to obtain a cross-
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compiler to generate code for your target CPU. For each board,
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configuration, there is a README.txt file (at configs/<board-name>/README.txt).
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That README file contains suggestions and information about appropriate
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tools and development environments for use with your board.
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In any case, the script, setenv.sh that was deposited in the top-
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level directory when NuttX was configured should be edited to set
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the path to where you installed the toolchain. The use of setenv.sh
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is optional but can save a lot of confusion in the future.
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NuttX Buildroot Toolchain
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For many configurations, a DIY set of tools is available for NuttX. These
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tools can be downloaded from the NuttX SourceForge file repository. After
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unpacking the buildroot tarball, you can find instructions for building
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the tools in the buildroot/configs/README.txt file.
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Check the README.txt file in the configuration director for your board
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to see if you can use the buildroot toolchain with your board (this
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README.txt file is located in configs/<board-name>/README.txt).
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This toolchain is available for both the Linux and Cygwin development
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environments.
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BUILDING NUTTX
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Building
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NuttX builds in-place in the source tree. You do not need to create
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any special build directories. Assuming that your Make.defs is setup
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properly for your tool chain and that setenv.sh contains the path to where
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your cross-development tools are installed, the following steps are all that
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are equired to build NuttX:
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cd ${TOPDIR}
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. ./setenv.sh
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make
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At least one configuration (eagle100) requires additional command line
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arguments on the make command. Read ${TOPDIR}/configs/<board-name>/README.txt
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to see if that applies to your target.
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Re-building
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Re-building is normally simple -- just type make again.
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But there are some things that can "get you" when you use the Cygwin
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development environment with Windows native tools. The native Windows
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tools do not understand Cygwin's symbolic links, so the NuttX make system
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does something weird: It copies the configuration directories instead of
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linking to them (it could, perhaps, use the NTFS 'mklink' command, but it
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doesn't).
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A consequence of this is that you can easily get confused when you edit
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a file in one of the linked (i.e., copied) directories, re-build NuttX,
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and then not see your changes when you run the program. That is because
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build is still using the version of the file in the copied directory, not
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your modified file! To work around this annoying behavior, do the
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following when you re-build:
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make clean_context all
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This 'make' coimmand will remove of the copied directories, re-copy them,
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then make NuttX.
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CYGWIN BUILD PROBLEMS
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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If you see strange behaviour when building under Cygwin then you may have
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a problem with your PATH variable. For example, if you see failures to
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locate files that are clearly present, that may mean that you are using
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the wrong version of a tool. For example, you may not be using Cywgin's
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'make' program at /usr/bin/make. Try:
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$ which make
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/usr/bin/make
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When you install some toolchains (such as Yargarto or CodeSourcery tools),
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they may modify your PATH variable to include a path to their binaries.
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At that location, they make have GNUWin32 versions of the tools. So you
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might actually be using a version of make that does not understand Cygwin
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paths.
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The solution is either:
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1. Edit your PATH to remove the path to the GNUWin32 tools, or
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2. Put /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, and /bin at the front of your path:
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$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH
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DOCUMENTATION
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Additional information can be found in the Documentation/ directory and
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also in README files that are scattered throughout the source tree. The
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documentation is in HTML and can be access by loading the following file
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into your Web browser:
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Documentation/index.html
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NuttX documentation is also available online at http://www.nuttx.org.
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Below is a guide to the available README files in the NuttX source tree:
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|- arch/
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| |- arm
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| | `- src
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| | `- lpc214x/README.txt
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| |- sh/
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| | | `-README.txt
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| | | `-README.txt
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| |- x86/
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| | | `-README.txt
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| | `- src/
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| | `-README.txt
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| `- z80/
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| | `- src/
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| `- README.txt
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|- configs/
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| |- xtrs/
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| | `- README.txt
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| `- README.txt
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|- drivers/
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| `- README.txt
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|- examples/
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| `- README.txt
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|- graphics/
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| `- README.txt
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|- libxx/
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| `- README.txt
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`- tools/
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`- README.txt
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