Windows Installation

PowerBlocks provides downloadable releases for Windows.

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Note

These instructions may be incomplete. Please report any missing steps or issues to the Issue Tracker

Prerequisites

PowerBlock's runs inside of a "Linux like" environment. In order to provide this MSYS2 must be installed from here.

From the MSYS2 shell, install the required build tools.

pacman -S cmake ninja wget unzip

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Download the SDK

From the MSYS2 shell, download and unzip the latest version of the SDK for Windows from the PowerBlocks Releases Page.

cd ~
wget https://github.com/rainbain/PowerBlocks/releases/download/<VERSION>/PowerBlocks-windows.zip
unzip PowerBlocks-windows.zip 
rm PowerBlocks-windows.zip

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Start a Project

We will create a project folder and copy in the HelloWorld example.

mkdir MyProject
cd MyProject
cp -r ~/PowerBlocks-windows/examples/HelloWorld/. .

Build the Project

To build it we will run PowerBlocks' export script to add the compilers and toolchain to the path and build the project.

mkdir build
cd build
. ~/PowerBlocks-windows/export.sh
cmake ..
ninja

You should now see a HelloWorld.elf inside the build/ folder of your project.