Compiling TinyOS on Ubuntu Maverick (10.10)

1. Ensure that you have uninstalled all the TinyOS related packages that you had previously installed. The following command should help:
   

   sudo apt-get --purge remove tinyos*

2. Add the TinyOS repository to your sources.list (we will use the lucid packages since packages for maverick aren't available):

   echo "deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu lucid main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
   sudo apt-get update

3. Install the required TinyOS toolchain:
   

   sudo apt-get install tinyos-required-msp430

4. Download the TinyOS source into ~/tinyos using SVN: 

   mkdir ~/tinyos
   cd ~/tinyos
   svn checkout http://tinyos-main.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ tinyos-2.x

   Note: This does not work on the institute's internet due to certain blocking schemes.  If you're trying this from the institute's internet, download and extract this into ~/tinyos.
5. Compile and install the tools:
   

   cd tinyos-2.x/tools
   ./Bootstrap
   ./configure --prefix=$HOME/tinyos/install
   make install

6. Set the environment variables by adding the following to your ~/.bashrc:

   export PATH=$HOME/tinyos/install/bin:$PATH

   export TOSROOT=$HOME/tinyos/tinyos-2.x
   export TOSDIR=$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=$HOME/tinyos/tinyos-2.x/support/sdk/c:$PATH

7. Compile the Blink app to test:
   

   cd ~/tinyos/tinyos-2.x/apps/Blink
   make micaz sim