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Building ARTIQ-6 and earlier
Pre-flake ARTIQ (that is 6 and earlier) requires slightly different steps for building.
Initial setup
The following steps need to be done only once.
First we will need to specify older nixpkg version - 21.05. Open ~/.nix-channels
with your favorite text editor.
If there are any nixpkgs
present already, comment them out with #
.
Then add the following line:
https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-21.05 nixpkgs
Save and exit.
Now, we need special nix-scripts
to configure building environment, and a local copy of the artiq repository, in legacy release.
mkdir artiq-legacy
cd artiq-legacy
git clone https://git.m-labs.hk/M-Labs/nix-scripts
git clone https://github.com/m-labs/artiq/
cd artiq
git checkout release-6 # or release-5...
cd ..
Setting up the environment and building firmware
Within fish
shell (others may not work correctly), set up the ARTIQ build environment:
nix-shell -I artiqSrc=<full path to artiq repo in legacy branch> nix-scripts/artiq-fast/shell-dev.nix
Then build the required firmware as usual:
python -m artiq.gateware.targets.kasli_generic <variant>.json
If you are building legacy ARTIQ for local use and you want to flash it, use:
artiq_flash -V <variant> -d artiq_kasli --srcbuild
There's a slight discrepancy from usual command - -V <variant>
option is not present in ARTIQ-7+, but it is necessary here.
If you want to send the binaries to a customer, there's no need packing up the whole build directory - only top.bit
, bootloader.bin
and runtime.elf/fbi
or satman.elf/fbi
are necessary. You can use the prep_pkg.py
script from extras to package them up neatly into a zip file for distributions:
python prep_pkg.py -v <variant> -d artiq_kasli/
Then the customer can use artiq_flash
easily, after extracting the contents:
artiq_flash -V <variant> -d .