Despite the fact that the library itself can be used on virtually any platform that has a standard-compliant C++03 or C++11 compiler, the library development process assumes that the host OS is Linux.

Prerequisites:

Google test library for C++ - gtest (see how to install on Debian/Ubuntu)
C++03 and C++11 capable compiler with GCC-like interface (e.g. GCC, Clang)
CMake 2.8+
Optional: static analysis tool for C++ - cppcheck (use Debian/Ubuntu package cppcheck)

Building the debug version and running the unit tests:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
make

Test outputs can be found in the build directory under libuavcan.

Contributors, please follow the Zubax Style Guide.

Submitting a coverity build

First, get the Coverity build tool. Then build the library with it:

export PATH=$PATH:<coverity-build-tool-directory>/bin/
mkdir debug && cd debug
cmake <uavcan-source-directory> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
cov-build --dir cov-int make -j8
tar czvf uavcan.tgz cov-int

Then upload the resulting archive to Coverity.

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