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NOTE: This is for Copter v3.2.1 and earlier. For v3.3 and later, things have been simplified greatly.
Use Homebrew to install various packages
This is a little risky and may not be necessary...
Install pyserial
Install ardupilot and dependencies
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Configure (This will generate ../config.mk file)
On a Mac, change the following line so that make can find proper arduino files
Build
Install ccache to speed up compilation
Run make twice as indicated in the official guide (first time to build PX4Firmware and Nuttex, 2nd time to build ArduCopter)
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Finally build the arducopter firmware for pixhawk
There should be 2 firmware files now. ArduCopter-v1.px4 for the original PX4, ArduCopter-v2.px4 for Pixhawk.
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To enable parallel builds and specifically build pixhawk quad firmware
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To build for other frame types, use make commands (substitute quad, tri, hexa, y6, octa, octa-quad, heli for [frame type])
NOTE: make clean only cleans non-px4 targets
To cleanup just the dependencies
Upload compiled firmware to your px4 board
For pixhawk, specify v2
Connect to Pixhawk to see if the firmware is working properly
Note: You have to connect to the serial interface right after Pixhawk finish booting and press Enter key 3 times to start the shell.
Or use MAVProxy
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Obsolete:
--setup option was used to get raw serial data without MAVLink mode parsing, but it seems like the whole console has been removed from newer version and it doesn't work, so omit --setup option.
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