Compiling OpenOCD v07 Linux
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Installing Packages
You will need to install several packages to compile and run OpenOCD. Open a terminal window (Applications menu > Accessories > Terminal) and type:
sudo apt-get install libtool autoconf texinfo libusb-dev
If you prefer to compile libusb yourself, you can find the source at http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/files/libusb-1.0/.
Downloading and Compiling libFTDI
libFTDI is an open source library that enables you to communicate with FTDI chips like: FT232BM, FT245BM, FT245R, FT2232C, FT2232D and FT2232H. You will need libFTDI to compile OpenOCD. Download libftdi-0.19.tar.gz from:http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/libftdi-0.19.tar.gz and extract it to your home directory (/home/USERNAME, replacing USERNAME with your username).
Navigate to home/USERNAME/libftdi-0.19/src, and copy ftdi.h to your /usr/include directory. Then create a symbolic link to ftdi.h in /usr/local/include. In the terminal window:
cd ~/libftdi-0.19/srcsudo cp ftdi.h /usr/includecd /usr/local/includesudo ln -s /usr/include/ftdi.h ftdi.h
Return to your libftdi-0.19 directory and compile.
cd ~/libftdi-0.19./configuremakesudo make install
This will install the necessary library files to /usr/local/lib. Navigate to /usr/lib and create symbolic links to the new files.
cd /usr/libsudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftdi.a libftdi.asudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftdi.la libftdi.lasudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftdi.so.1.19.0 libftdi.so.1.19.0sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftdi.so.1.19.0 libftdi.sosudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftdi.so.1.19.0 libftdi.so.1
Downloading OpenOCD
Download the OpenOCD v0.70 source from:http://sourceforge.net/projects/openocd/files/openocd/0.7.0/openocd-0.7.0.tar.gz/download
and extract it to /home/USERNAME/openocd-0.7.0. (replacing USERNAME with your username).
Compiling OpenOCD
In the terminal window, navigate to the new folder containing the OpenOCD source and compile as follows.
cd ~/openocd-0.7.0sudo ./configure --disable-werror --enable-ft2232_libftdisudo makesudo make install
Navigate to /home/USERNAME/openocd-0.7.0/src to find the openocd binary. You will need superuser privileges (the sudo command) to run OpenOCD.
Preparing to Run OpenOCD
You can run openocd from /home/USERNAME/openocd-0.7.0/src, but you may encounter problems with configuration files. For a more in-depth discussion of these issues, see OpenOCD Config File Paths. This guide recommends that you create a new directory containing OpenOCD and its config files.
Create a new directory in /home/USERNAME called openocd-bin, and copy the openocd binary and the contents of /home/USERNAME/openocd/tcl to the new directory. You can do this from the terminal window with the collowing commands:
cd ~mkdir openocd-bincd ~/openocd-0.7.0/tclcp -r * ~/openocd-bincd ~/openocd-0.7.0/srccp openocd ~/openocd-bin
openocd-bin should now contain the following files and subdirectories:
boardchipcpldcpuopenocdinterfacetargettestbitsbytes.tclmem_helper.tclmemory.tclmmr_helpers.tcl
You can now run OpenOCD from /home/USERNAME/openocd-bin. To get started running OpenOCD, see Running OpenOCD on Linux.