Vision Apps User Guide
Build Instructions

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Make sure additional components and network proxies are setup as mentioned in Build Environment Setup before proceeding to building PSDKRA
  • Make sure you dont skip any of the steps mentioned below
  • ${PSDKRA_PATH} refers to the path where Processor SDK RTOS Automotive (PSDKRA) is installed
  • ${PSDKLA_PATH} refers to the path where Processor SDK Linux Automotive (PSDKLA) is installed
  • All folders like, pdk, tiovx, vision_apps mentioned in the user guide are relative to ${PSDKRA_PATH} unless explicitly stated otherwise.
  • The build is tested on Ubuntu (x86_64) 18.04 system and may not work on earlier or later Ubuntu systems.
  • 20GB of free space is required to install and build PSDKRA
  • Make sure you have sudo access

Quick steps to build vision apps for Linux+TI-RTOS mode

  • Edit file tiovx/build_flags.mak and modify below variables
    BUILD_EMULATION_MODE=no
    BUILD_TARGET_MODE=yes
    BUILD_LINUX_A72=yes
    PROFILE=release
  • Do below to build the source code using pre-built libraries provided in the SDK installer,
    cd vision_apps
    make vision_apps
  • The RTOS, Linux executable are stored below
    vision_apps/out/J7/A72/LINUX/$PROFILE
    vision_apps/out/J7/R5F/SYSBIOS/$PROFILE
    vision_apps/out/J7/C66/SYSBIOS/$PROFILE
    vision_apps/out/J7/C71/SYSBIOS/$PROFILE

Quick steps to build vision apps for PC emulation mode

  • Edit file tiovx/build_flags.mak and modify below variables
    BUILD_EMULATION_MODE=yes
    BUILD_TARGET_MODE=no
    BUILD_LINUX_A72=no
    PROFILE=release
  • Do below to build the source code using pre-built libraries provided in the SDK installer,
    cd vision_apps
    make vision_apps
  • The PC executables are stored below
    vision_apps/out/PC/x64_64/LINUX/$PROFILE

Quick steps to clean vision apps generated files

  • To do a clean build of vision_apps do below,
    cd vision_apps
    make vision_apps_scrub

Detailed steps to configure and build vision apps

Makefile and configuration options

  • Default makefile flag values are set to build the SDK properly. However below flags are recommended to be changed by users to speed up their build time, execution speed and/or configure what to build depending on their specific requirements.
  • Edit below variables in tiovx/build_flags.mak. These flags will affect both tiovx as well as vision_apps
Makefile flag Valid values (default value in bold) Description
PROFILE debug or release or all "debug" for debug only build,
"release" for release only build,
"all" for both debug and release builds
BUILD_TARGET_MODE yes or no "yes" to build for SoC platform. In case you are building only for PC keep this to "no"
BUILD_LINUX_A72 yes or no "yes" if you want to build for ARM Linux on A72. In case you are building for RTOS only mode, keep this to "no"
BUILD_EMULATION_MODE yes or no "yes" to build for PC emulation mode. In case you are building only for SoC keep this to "no"
BUILD_CT_* yes or no "yes" to enable OpenVX conformance tests for specific group of tests (CT). Typically during development one would keep all to "no" and only enable the required tests in respective CT "test_main.h"
  • Edit below variables in vision_apps/vision_apps_build_flags.mak,
Makefile flag Valid values (default value in bold) Description
BUILD_CPU_<cpu name> yes or no "yes" if you want that CPU in your build, else keep it to "no".
Note, BUILD_CPU_MPU1, BUILD_CPU_MCU2_1 MUST be kept as "yes"
BUILD_APP_TIRTOS_LINUX yes or no "yes" to build Linux+RTOS mode binaries for selected CPUs. Keep to "no" if you are not interested in Linux+RTOS binaries.
By default this is set to BUILD_LINUX_A72
  • Edit vision_apps/apps/basic_demos/app_tirtos/common/app_cfg*.h for additional build time configuration,
    Note, additional #define's are defined in these files, but only ones which typical users need to customize are listed below.
File #define Description
app_cfg.h ENABLE_IPC_<cpu name> #undef these to disable a CPU from the system, #define to enable in the system
Note, this must match the BUILD_CPU_<cpu name> vision_apps/vision_apps_build_flags.mak
app_cfg_mcu2_1.h ENABLE_DSS_HDMI #define this to enable HDMI display via Infotainment daughter card, make sure to #undef ENABLE_DSS_EDP as well
^ ENABLE_DSS_EDP #define this to enable eDP display via base EVM, make sure to #undef ENABLE_DSS_HDMI as well
^ ENABLE_DSS #undef this to disable display (both HDMI and eDP), if you don't have display panel or daughter card for display

Build vision apps without prebuilt libraries

  • Do below to see values of make configuration variables
    cd vision_apps
    make sdk_show_config
  • Do below to see additional make targets to do a granular SDK build
    cd vision_apps
    make sdk_help
  • Do below to build the full PSDKRA
    cd vision_apps
    make sdk
  • Do below to clean the full PSDKRA
    cd vision_apps
    make sdk_scrub