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Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

You're reading from   Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17 Create versatile and robust embedded solutions for MCUs and RTOSes with modern C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788629300
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Fundamentals - Embedded programming and the role of C++
2. What Are Embedded Systems? FREE CHAPTER 3. C++ as an Embedded Language 4. Developing for Embedded Linux and Similar Systems 5. Resource-Restricted Embedded Systems 6. Example - Soil Humidity Monitor with Wi-Fi 7. Section 2: Testing, Monitoring
8. Testing OS-Based Applications 9. Testing Resource-Restricted Platforms 10. Example - Linux-Based Infotainment System 11. Example - Building Monitoring and Control 12. Section 3: Integration with other tools and frameworks
13. Developing Embedded Systems with Qt 14. Developing for Hybrid SoC/FPGA Systems 15. Best Practices 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cross-compiling for SBCs

The compile process takes the source files, turning them into an intermediate format, after which this format can be used to target a specific CPU architecture. For us, this means that we aren't limited to compiling applications for an SBC on that SBC itself, but we can do so on our development PC.

To do so for an SBC such as the Raspberry Pi (Broadcom Cortex-A-based ARM SoCs), we need to install the arm-linux-gnueabihf toolchain, which targets the ARM architecture with hard float (hardware floating point) support, outputting Linux-compatible binaries.

On a Debian-based Linux system, we can install the entire toolchain with the following commands:

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf
sudo apt install gdb-multiarch  

The first command installs the native GCC-based toolchain for the system (if it wasn't already...

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