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UI Development Quick-Start (Angel-Player)

The following steps should work on Linux, OS X, and Windows (cygwin).

1. Install firefox (v30+), git (which comes with cygwin / git bash on Windows).
2. git clone [this repo]
3. Run dev.sh
4. There's no need to run build.sh
5. Reload Angel-Player without restarting it by clicking the square at the bottom right, and clicking the Reload text that appears.
6. To interact with a robot or run code in the simulator, for the time being the Slow-Start is needed (or the artifacts from it).

Windows

If you're on Windows and can't run dev.sh (not using cygwin), run dev.bat

UI Development Slow-Start (and release build instructions)

1. Install essential and angel-player dependencies below.
2. Run build-angel-player.sh once.
3. Run ./run-angel-player or ./dev.sh without build.sh to see changes.

Building the Whole System

1. Install all dependencies below.
2. Run build.sh.

Setting up Angel Player debugger

Angel Player can be debugged by using the Firefox remote debug tools that are normally used to debug Thunderbird/Firefox OS. To enable this on the Firefox side:

1. Open the developer tools (Ctrl+Shift+I)
2. Click the "Settings" sprocket in the top-left.
3. Under advanced, enable remote debugging (you may also need to enable chrome debugging).

To enable remote debugging in Angel Player, either launch the in-tree version of the code (./run-angel-player or ./dev.sh) or set "devtools.debugger.remote-enabled" and "devtools.chrome.enabled" to "true" in about:config. If for some reason you already have an application listening on port 6000 on your computer, you can also change "devtools.debugger.remote-port" to an alternate port.

To connect the remote debugger, restart firefox and select Tools->Web Developer->Connect... in Firefox. Set the host to localhost and the port to 6000 (unless you changed the port above) and click connect. Select Main Process from the list that appears.

Full System Setup (i.e. how to run build.sh)

Are you on Ubuntu? Use install_build_deps.sh! (You must be connected to the Internet for this to work.) After running install_build_deps.sh, you also need to manually:

1. Run emcc. This creates some config files necessary for it to work.
2. Run EAGLE. This creates a directory in your home so that it doesn't prompt you while building (and stalling the build).
3. If you are running on Ubuntu, make sure to add yourself to the dialout group to access your USB serial port (usually /dev/ttyUSB0). This can be done using the command sudo useradd -G dialout $USER
4. The whole build system can be run using ./build.sh. Build results are in build/artifacts.

If you're not on Ubuntu, it's more difficult. Basically, install the equivalents of the dependencies below.

Full System Dependencies

For the time being, build.sh is not modular enough, and needs all of these dependencies to exist to do anything.

However, Angel-Player can be built with only its listed dependencies using ./build-angel-player.sh.

To do anything

• PyYAML
• coreutils, build-essential, etc.
• python (2.7 recommended)
• tar, bz2, etc.
• wget

To build release Angel-Player

• emscripten (get from http://rqou.com/emscripten-bin-18apr2014.tar.bz2)

To lint Angel-Player

• nodejs (currently using v0.10.26, from the chris-lea/node.js PPA)
• jshint (install from npm, currently using 2.1.11)
• csslint (install from npm, currently using 0.10.0)
• Java JRE

To test Angel-Player

• libX11, Xvfb (also used to build eda)

To build eda

• EAGLE (currently using v6.5.0)
• libX11, Xvfb (also used to test Angel-Player)

To build embedded software

• project-tenshi-tools (get from Jenkins)
• avr-gcc (currently using the nonolith/avr-toolchain PPA)

To lint the build system itself

• pep8