FRC C++ Toolchain
 

Hey everyone,

I'm experimenting with some C++ development for the RoboRIO, and I'm looking to implement the FRC Toolchain into a gradle script. While I've noted that this page exists, is there any way to get the raw toolchain zip/tarball without the installer?

Thanks,
~Jaci

Re: FRC C++ Toolchain
 

For Linux files you can download the .deb files for the packages you are interested in from the Launchpad repository and extract them. Debian packages are just ar archives with a specified structure. The files for each program will be inside the data.tar.gz for that .deb file.

For Mac, the files you're interested in are in a file called Archive.pax.gz inside the .pkg file. You can extract the files you're interested in with gunzip and pax.

For Windows, it looks doable but I can't test it because I don't have any Windows machines nearby.

Re: FRC C++ Toolchain
 

For linux: http://frc971.org/Build-Dependencies...i_4.9.3.tar.gz

We recently switched to building code for the roboRIO with bazel (bazel.io) and have been pretty happy with it. It even supports full sandboxing of each build step to do everything possible to guarantee that each build step is hermetic and repeatable. I've got a minimalist project floating around if that would be useful that I can share.

I hope your C++ experiments go well. There is a lot of flexibility, power, and pain in C++.

Re: FRC C++ Toolchain
 

Just so you know the newest WPILib gradle build files implement the arm toolchains in an easy to use way. It was just committed about a week ago, and it is much cleaner at reading and building with the arm toolchain.