Installation
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This guide covers installation of Contiki 2.7.
There are basically three way of installing Contiki:
- Download Instant Contiki [1]
- Download ContikiOS from Sourceforge repository [2]
- Clone ContikiOS from Github repository [3]
Installing Contiki using Instant Contiki
This is the easiest way of installing and using ContikiOS. You simply need to download Instant Contiki, which is a virtual machine created with all necessary toolchains and software for Contiki development.
Link to download Instant Contiki: [4]
After downloading Instant Contiki you need also to download either VMWare Player or VirtualBox, if you are using Windows as your host OS. If you use MacOS X you should download VMWare Fusion, instead of VMWare Player.
IMPORTANT: To login in to Instant Contiki: username: user passwork: user
Installing ContikiOS 2.7 from its Sourceforge repository
This method requires an existing installation of a Linux-based operating system. The guide assumes you are using Ubuntu 12.04 but should still be useful for similar versions.
Download contiki-2.7.zip from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/contiki/Contiki/Contiki%202.7/contiki-2.7.zip
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/contiki/Contiki/Contiki%202.7/contiki-2.7.zip
Unzip the file. For the purposes of this guide, it is assumed that the file is unzipped into /home/user/
unzip contiki-2.7.zip
Rename the folder from contiki-2.7 to contiki.
mv contiki-2.7 contiki
Install all the required packages for compiling and running ContikiOS.
If you are using a MSP430-based platform (such as Tmote) you only need the following packages: binutils-msp430, gcc-msp430, msp430-libc, msp430mcu and mspdebug. If you intend to code for multiple platforms, you should also install the following tool chains for other micro-controller: binutils-avr, gcc-avr, gdb-avr, avr-libc and avrdude.
You can run the following command to install all packages for multiple platforms:
sudo apt-get install build-essential binutils-msp430 gcc-msp430 msp430-libc msp430mcu
mspdebug binutils-avr gcc-avr gdb-avr avr-libc avrdude openjdk-7-jdk
openjdk-7-jre ant libncurses5-dev
You are done! You can now try to compile and run any example, such as Hello World.
