Installing From Source

This page explains how to install TinyOS and nesC from their source repositories. This is useful for developers who want to contribute or users who need very recent changes.

nesC

1. Get the prerequisites.
   • automake
   • emacs
   • bison
   • flex
   • gperf
2. Get the source from the GitHub repository.

   git clone git://github.com/tinyos/nesc.git
   

3. Run the normal build procedure.

   cd nesc
   ./Bootstrap
   ./configure
   make
   make install
   

TinyOS

1. Get the source from the GitHub repository.

   git clone git://github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main.git
   

2. Install the tools.

   cd tinyos-main/tools
   ./Bootstrap
   ./configure
   make
   make install
   

3. Set the environment variables. Add the following to `.bashrc`.

   export TOSROOT=$HOME/tinyos-main
   export TOSDIR=$TOSROOT/tos
   export MAKERULES=$TOSROOT/support/make/Makerules
   export CLASSPATH=$TOSROOT/support/sdk/java/tinyos.jar:.
   export PYTHONPATH=$TOSROOT/support/sdk/python:$PYTHONPATH
   export PATH=$TOSROOT/support/sdk/c:$PATH