ArduCopter compilation steps for older versions

Mehmet_Camlica · October 11, 2019, 8:59am

Hello all,

I am able to compile and upload the latest version (master) of ArduPilot to my Pixhawk1 board. However, I was not able to work the optical flow, and couldn’t find out why because the structure for the OF has changed and not compatible with the previous documentation for OF. For example, there is no parameter named “FS_ENABLE” anymore.

Hence, I decided to compile and upload older versions, such as 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5 and try them out. However, there seems to be a problem during the compilation stage.

Anyway, before I even mention that, I don’t really know what configuration boards “‘px4-v1’, ‘px4-v2’, ‘px4-v3’, ‘px4-v4’, ‘px4-v4pro’, ‘pxf’, ‘pxfmini’” stand for.

Can anyone help me find some sort of documentation for this?

Thanks.

iampete · October 11, 2019, 10:11am

all the older versions are available on the firmware server:
http://firmware.ardupilot.org/Copter/

Not that we would recommend using old versions, best thing to do is flash the latest stable and read the wiki and ask for advice on setting up optical flow here.

Mehmet_Camlica · October 11, 2019, 11:57am

Thanks for replying,

I was more looking for a place such as a wiki, similar to the found on Build.MD on latest master.

For example, I don’t know what board configurations px4-v1,2,3,4 stand for ? Things like that, where can I get the related information ?

iampete · October 11, 2019, 12:09pm

you can look at Build.MD for the release your interested in by selecting that branch, for example for copter 3.4

github.com

ArduPilot/ardupilot/blob/Copter-3.4/BUILD.md

# Building ArduPilot #

Ardupilot is gradually moving from the make-based build system to
[Waf](https://waf.io/). The instructions below should be enough for you to
build Ardupilot, but you can also read more about the build system in the
[Waf Book](https://waf.io/book/).

Waf should always be called from the ardupilot's root directory. Differently
from the make-based build, with Waf there's a configure step to choose the
board to be used (default is `sitl`).

## Basic usage ##

There are several commands in the build system for advanced usages, but here we
list some basic and more used commands as example.

* **Build ArduCopter**

    Here we use minlure as an example of Linux board. Other boards can be used
    and the next section shows how to get a list of available boards.

This file has been truncated. show original

Mehmet_Camlica · October 11, 2019, 12:10pm

Ah. Now I feel stupid

Thanks!