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General Tools
Most ports use a regular Makefile to build the examples.
On Unix-based systems, git, make, and Python are usually installed. If not, use the system’s packet manager to install them.
On Windows, there is no packet manager, but it's easy to download and install all requires development packets quickly by hand. You'll need:
- Python for Windows. When using the official installer, please confirm adding Python to the Windows Path.
- MSYS2 is used to provide the bash shell and most standard POSIX command line tools.
- MinGW64 GCC for Windows 64 & 32 bits incl. make. To install with MSYS2: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
- git is used to download BTstack source code. To install with MSYS2: pacman -S git
- winpty a wrapper to allow for console input when running in MSYS2: To install with MSYS2: pacman -S winpty
Getting BTstack from GitHub
Use git to clone the latest version:
git clone https://github.com/bluekitchen/btstack.git
Alternatively, you can download it as a ZIP archive from BTstack’s page on GitHub.
Let's Go
The easiest way to try BTstack is on a regular desktop setup like macOS, Linux or Windows together with a standard USB Bluetooth Controller. Running BTstack on desktop speeds up the development cycle a lot and also provides direct access to full packet log files in cases something doesn't work as expected. The same code can then later be run unmodified on an embedded target.
For macOS and Linux, please see libusb port. For Windows, please see windows-winusb port.
Or checkout the list of existing ports