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Help! How do I get I2C support with cross compiler?



  • I used the "Cross-Compiling for the Omega" article to set up a cross compiler environment in Ubuntu, and I was able to get a HelloWorld executable to run on the Omega 2+. I want to move on to some more challenging territory and create an executable to talk to I2C devices, but I can't figure out how to get I2C support in my cross compiler environment. Any hints/tips would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Bryan



  • You need to link against libonioni2c. My cross-compiled library for an I2C WiiClassic controller uses exactly that. (here)



  • Okay, now we're getting somewhere! I don't have any libonionXXX libraries in my cross compiler toolchain. How do I get them in my toolchain?



  • Either use my compiled version in the repository I linked to or cross-compile them yourself from the source at https://github.com/OnionIoT/i2c-exp-driver. I found that you can't link against the binary file provided by the package for the onion (e.g. installable by opkg update && opkg install libonioni2c), due to some weird errors / symbol stripping whatever. So I compiled my own repo of header and library files at https://github.com/gamer-cndg/omega2-libs. Note that for your cross-compiled program to be able to run on an Omega, it will have to have all dependencies installed, such as libonioni2c.



  • Thank you Maximilian for your help!

    I found more information in another post, and I don't know why they haven't included this information in the Cross-Compiling for the Omega documentation.

    José Luis Cánovas included these instructions in his Docker SDK post:

    You must add the onion feeds (work in progress for my docker image, in the meantime do it manually) to the file feeds.conf.default (check WereCatf's first_time_setup.sh), update the feed and add the onion packages:
    scripts/feeds update -a
    scripts/feeds install -a
    Then, from make menuconfig select the onion libraries (Onion -> Libraries/Utilities -> select as [M]odule).
    ...
    [run make here to compile the toolchain]
    ...
    When make finishes, an ls staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/usr/lib/ (note the penultimate /usr/ directory) shows:

    omega@dee42fad6a75:/lede$ ls staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/usr/lib/
    [...]  liboniondebug.so [...]  libonioni2c.so [...]  libonionspi.so [...]
    

    and many more onion and non-onion libraries.

    And inside staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/usr/include/:

    omega@dee42fad6a75:/lede$ ls staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/usr/include/                                         
    [...] onion-spi.h   [...]   onion-debug.h   [...]   onion-i2c.h   [...]
    

    Note: I didn't need to add the Onion feeds to the feeds.conf file - the scripts/feeds script worked without any modifications.

    I wish it were a little more clear about which libraries, etc. to select on the make menuconfig, because I found multiple items that were related to I2C. So I just picked the ones that looked right...hopefully that doesn't mess me up too much.



  • Thank you @Bryan-Hilterbrand that was exactly what I was looking for!
    You're right, this update procedure should be added to the reference documentation.


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