Raspberry Pi as a platform

[thawkins]

It would be very cool to support cross compiling to raspberrypi (1 and 2) , with an emulation of the aurduino framework. There is a low level gpio, spi etc twiddling library available called wiringPi.

http://wiringpi.com

There is another mode the rPi can be used in, which is bare metal mode, where a firmware image is automaticaly loaded from the sdcard, the pi boot system automaticaly loads a fixed file from a fat formated partition on the sdcard. Which gets your code up and running, there are a number of c++ frameworks designed for working in this mode, but none that as easy to use as the arduino framework and libraries. As far as i understand only a very small part of the arduino framework is actualy hardware dependant (init, pins, spi ), support for the screen can be either added to the serial lib as a consol, or to the lcd libs as a large graphic lcd device.

What is the best way to start hacking on this, im not really abpython programmer so i would have to learn that first, my main background is c/c++.

Are there a set of development guides?

[ivankravets]

It would be very cool to support cross compiling to raspberrypi (1 and 2)

See issue #263

emulation of the aurduino framework

Sorry, this is out of scope of PlatformIO project. Looks like it should be separate framework/tool which should do it.

[ivankravets]

@thawkins Have you tried new native development platform on RPi? Since PlatformIO 2.3 you can build http://wiringpi.com using native development platform and RPi.

[ivankravets]

Please reopen this issue if you still need help

[ivankravets]

@thawkins Please take a look on issue #372