inav/docs/development/Building in Windows 10 with Linux Subsystem.md

Building in Windows 10 with Linux subsystem [Recommended]

Linux subsystem for Windows 10 is probably the simplest way of building INAV under Windows 10.

Setting up the environment

Enable WSL: run windows features enable windows subsytem for linux reboot

Install Ubuntu:

1. Go to Microsoft store https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/b/home
2. Search and install most recent Ubuntu LTS version
3. When download completed, select Launch Ubuntu
4. When prompted enter a user name and password which you will need to remember
5. When complete, the linux command prompt will be displayed

NOTE: from this point all commands are entered into the Ubunto shell command window

Update the repo packages:

1. sudo apt update

Install Git, Make, gcc and Ruby

1. sudo apt-get install git
2. sudo apt-get install make
3. sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi
4. sudo apt-get install ruby

Downloading the iNav repository (example):

Mount MS windows C drive and clone iNav

1. cd /mnt/c
2. git clone https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav.git

You are ready! You now have a folder called inav in the root of C drive that you can edit in windows

Building (example):

Launch Ubuntu: Click Windows Start button then scroll and lauch "Ubuntu"

Building from Ubunto command line cd /mnt/c/inav make clean TARGET=OMNIBUSF4PRO (as an example) make TARGET=MATEKF405 (as an example)

Flashing:

Launch windows configurator GUI and from within the firmware flasher select Load firmware[Local] Hex files can be found in the folder c:\inav\obj