MediaTek LinkIt™ Connect 7681 Developer's Guide
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3.
Tools guide
This section provides details on the use of the tools included in the MediaTek LinkIt Connect
7681 SDK.
3.1.
make
make
provides for building a collection of source code files into firmware for MT7681. The utility
provides for four types of builds:
•
make -b=0
to build recovery mode firmware.
•
make -b=1
to build station mode firmware (the default build).
•
make -b=2
to build AP mode firmware.
•
make clean;make
to perform a full rebuild after cleaning all object files, useful
particularly after making configurations in
makefile
or header files.
make
should be run from a project’s source root folder (for example
*:\LinkIt_Connect_7681_SDK\Src\
). Each build will create a log file, as follows:
•
out\sta\build_sta.log
for a Wi-Fi station image build.
•
out\sta\build_ap.log
for an access point (AP) image build.
3.2.
Firmware uploader
The firmware uploader is provided as an executable on Windows (
mt7681_uploader.exe
) and
source python script on Windows and Linux (
mt7681_uploader.py
). To execute the python script
on Windows python 2.x is required — Linux provides native python support.
The syntax of the uploader for Windows are:
> mt7681_uploader.exe -f out\sta\MT7681_sta_header.bin -c COM7
Or
> python mt7681_uploader.py -f out\sta\MT7681_sta_header.bin -c COM7
While on Linux its:
> python mt7681_uploader.py -f out/sta/MT7681_sta_header.bin -c
/dev/ttyUSB0
The supported command switches are shown in Table 6.
Switch
Function
-h: --help
Displays a help message and exits the command
-f: BIN_PATH
Defines the path of the bin file to be uploaded
-c: COM_PORT
Defines the COM port the bin file will be sent to in the format COMx, for
example COM1, COM2, and alike
-b: BAUD_RATE
Defines the Baud rate of the connection. Can be any valid baud rate, such
as 9600 or 115200 (default)
Table 6 uploader command switches
