OPEN-R SDK Installation Guide

Sony provides the OPEN-R software development kit in order to allow users to program their AIBOs. Tekkotsu builds on top of the capabilities of OPEN-R, and almost entirely encapsulates the API, so that you do not need to learn the intricacies of OPEN-R programming. However, in order to compile any code for the AIBO, you must first install OPEN-R and build a MIPS cross-compiler.

Prerequisites:

• A UNIX compatable environment, such as Linux, Mac OS X, or Cygwin under Windows.
• Cygwin users note: You may want to refer our own Cygwin installation guide to make sure you have everything you need.
• Mac OS X Users Note: You must have installed the BSD Subsystem package and the Developer Tools (XCode) in order to build the development environment
• Ubuntu users: You will need to:
  sudo apt-get install flex gettext patch bison texinfo make g++

Files Needed:

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  Note: Sony has discontinued the OPEN-R SDK and is no longer distributing the system binaries and header files. This is a mirror of their last known release.

Installing Sony's Aibo development environment (OPEN-R SDK)

1. Check prerequisites listed above
2. Download all of the files listed above and place them together into a temporary directory.
3. The build script will install the toolchain into /usr/local/OPEN_R_SDK. If you prefer a different location, edit now.
• If you change the installation directory, you will need to assign the path to the OPENRSDK_ROOT environment variable so Tekkotsu's build scripts will be able to find it later.
  
4. Run (and go find some articles to read...)
• You may need to 'chmod a+x ' first.
• You may also need to run the script as root, or otherwise create the OPEN_R_SDK directory and ensure your user account write access.
5. Your target directory (i.e. /usr/local/OPEN_R_SDK) should now contain:
   OPEN_R/   include/   lib/     mipsel-linux/
   bin/      info/      man/     share/        

If you are interested in experimenting with the base SDK, you should visit the OPEN-R tutorial from ENSTA University.  The Tekkotsu framework will handle almost all interaction with the system for you, so this will be primarily of interest if you want to edit the low-level portions of the framework itself

That's all folks!