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    ===================
    
    OpenOCD provides on-chip programming and debugging support with a
    layered architecture of JTAG interface and TAP support, debug target
    support (e.g. ARM, MIPS), and flash chip drivers (e.g. CFI, NAND, etc.).
    Several network interfaces are available for interactiving with OpenOCD:
    HTTP, telnet, TCL, and GDB.  The GDB server enables OpenOCD to function
    as a "remote target" for source-level debugging of embedded systems
    using the GNU GDB program.
    
    This README file contains an overview of the following topics:
    - how to find and build more OpenOCD documentation,
    - the build process
    - packaging tips.
    - configuration options
    
    =====================
    OpenOCD Documentation
    =====================
    
    In addition to in-tree documentation, the latest documentation may be
    viewed on-line at the following URLs:
    
     OpenOCD User's Guide:
        http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/html/index.html
    
     OpenOCD Developer's Manual:
        http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/doxygen/index.html
    
    These reflect the latest development versions, so the following section
    introduces how to build the complete documentation from the package.
    
    
    For more information, refer to these documents or contact the developers
    by subscribing to the OpenOCD developer mailing list:
    
    	openocd-development@lists.berlios.de
    
    Building the OpenOCD Documentation
    ----------------------------------
    
    The OpenOCD User's Guide can be produced in two different format:
    
      # If PDFVIEWER is set, this creates and views the PDF User Guide.
      make pdf && ${PDFVIEWER} doc/openocd.pdf
    
      # If HTMLVIEWER is set, this creates and views the HTML User Guide.
      make html && ${HTMLVIEWER} doc/openocd.html/index.html
    
    The OpenOCD Developer Manual contains information about the internal
    architecture and other details about the code:
    
      make doxygen
    
      # If HTMLVIEWER is set, this views the HTML Doxygen output.
      ${HTMLVIEWER} doxyegen/index.html
    
    The remaining sections describe how to configure the system such that
    you can build the in-tree documentation.
    
    ==================
    Installing OpenOCD
    ==================
    
    A Note to OpenOCD Users
    -----------------------
    
    If you would rather be working "with" OpenOCD rather than "on" it, your
    operating system or interface supplier may provide binaries for you in a
    convenient package.
    
    Such packages should be more stable than SVN trunk, where bleeding-edge
    development takes place.  These "Packagers" produce binary releases of
    OpenOCD after the developers produces new "stable" versions of the
    source code.  Previous versions of OpenOCD cannot be used to diagnosed
    problems with the current release, so users are encouraged to keep in
    contact with their distribution package maintainers or interface vendors
    to ensure suitable upgrades appear regularly.
    
    Users of these binary versions of OpenOCD must contact their Packager to
    ask for support or newer versions of the binaries; the OpenOCD
    developers do not support packages directly.
    
    A Note to OpenOCD Packagers
    ---------------------------
    
    You are a PACKAGER of OpenOCD if you:
    
    - Sell dongles: and include pre-built binaries
    - Supply tools: A complete development solution
    - Supply IDEs: like Eclipse, or RHIDE, etc.
    - Build packages: RPM files, or DEB files for a Linux Distro
    
    As a PACKAGER, you will experience first reports of most issues.
    When you fix those problems for your users, your solution may help
    prevent hundreds (if not thousands) of other questions from other users.
    
    If something does not work for you, please work to inform the OpenOCD
    developers know how to improve the system or documentation to avoid
    future problems, and follow-up to help us ensure the issue will be fully
    resolved in our future releases.
    
    That said, the OpenOCD developers would also like you to follow a few
    suggestions:
    
    - Send patches, including config files, upstream.
    - Always build with printer ports enabled.
    - Use libftdi + libusb for FT2232 support.
    
    Remember, the FTD2XX library cannot be used in binary distributions, due
    to restrictions of the GPL v2.
    
    ================
    Building OpenOCD
    ================
    
    The INSTALL file contains generic instructions for running 'configure'
    and compiling the OpenOCD source code.  That file is provided by default
    
    for all GNU automake packages.  If you are not familiar with the GNU
    autotools, then you should read those instructions first.  
    
    The remainder of this document tries to provide some instructions for
    those looking for a quick-install.
    
    
    OpenOCD Dependencies
    --------------------
    
    
    Presently, GCC is required to build OpenOCD.  The developers have begun
    to enforce strict code warnings (-Wall, -Werror, -Wextra, and more) and
    use C99-specific features: inline functions, named initializers, mixing
    declarations with code, and other tricks.  While it may be possible to
    use other compilers, they must be somewhat modern and could require
    extending support to conditionally remove GCC-specific extensions.
    
    Also, you need to install the appropriate driver files, if you want to
    
    build support for a USB or FTDI-based interface:
    
    - ft2232, jlink, rlink, vsllink, usbprog, arm-jtag-ew:
      - libusb: required for portable communication with USB dongles
    - ft2232 also requires:
      - libftdi: http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/ftdi/  *OR*
      - ftd2xx: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm,
    
        or the Amontec version (from http://www.amontec.com), for
    
        easier support of JTAGkey's vendor and product IDs.
    
    
    Many Linux distributions provide these packages through their automated
    
    installation and update mechanisms; however, some Linux versions include
    older versions of libftdi.  In particular, using Ubuntu 8.04 has been
    problematic, but newer versions of Ubuntu do not have this problem.
    
    Compiling OpenOCD
    -----------------
    
    To build OpenOCD (on both Linux and Cygwin), use the following sequence
    of commands:
    
       ./configure [with some options listed in the next section]
       make 
       make install
    
    The 'configure' step generates the Makefiles required to build OpenOCD,
    usually with one or more options provided to it.  The first 'make' step
    will build OpenOCD and place the final executable in ./src/.  The
    final (optional) step, ``make install'', places all of the files in the
    required location.
    
    Configuration Options
    ---------------------
    
    The configure script takes numerous options, specifying which JTAG
    interfaces should be included (among other things).  The following list
    of options was extracted from the output of './configure --help'.  Other
    options may be available there:
    
      --enable-maintainer-mode  enable make rules and dependencies not useful
                              (and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer
    			  NOTE: This option is *required* for SVN builds!
    			  It should *not* be used to build a release.
    
      --enable-dummy          Enable building the dummy JTAG port driver
    
      --enable-ft2232_libftdi Enable building support for FT2232 based devices
                              using the libftdi driver, opensource alternate of
                              FTD2XX
      --enable-ft2232_ftd2xx  Enable building support for FT2232 based devices
                              using the FTD2XX driver from ftdichip.com
      --enable-ftd2xx-highspeed
                              Enable building support for FT2232H and
                              FT4232H-based devices (requires >=libftd2xx-0.4.16)
    
      --enable-gw16012        Enable building support for the Gateworks GW16012
                              JTAG Programmer
    
      --enable-parport        Enable building the pc parallel port driver
      --disable-parport-ppdev Disable use of ppdev (/dev/parportN) for parport
                              (for x86 only)
      --enable-parport-giveio Enable use of giveio for parport (for CygWin only)
    
      --enable-presto_libftdi Enable building support for ASIX Presto Programmer
                              using the libftdi driver
      --enable-presto_ftd2xx  Enable building support for ASIX Presto Programmer
                              using the FTD2XX driver
    
      --enable-amtjtagaccel   Enable building the Amontec JTAG-Accelerator driver
      --enable-arm-jtag-ew    Enable building support for the Olimex ARM-JTAG-EW
                              Programmer
      --enable-jlink          Enable building support for the Segger J-Link JTAG
                              Programmer
      --enable-rlink          Enable building support for the Raisonance RLink
                              JTAG Programmer
      --enable-usbprog        Enable building support for the usbprog JTAG
                              Programmer
      --enable-vsllink        Enable building support for the Versaloon-Link JTAG
                              Programmer
    
      --enable-oocd_trace     Enable building support for the OpenOCD+trace ETM
                              capture device
    
      --enable-ep93xx         Enable building support for EP93xx based SBCs
      --enable-at91rm9200     Enable building support for AT91RM9200 based SBCs
    
      --enable-ecosboard      Enable building support for eCos based JTAG debugger
      --enable-zy1000         Enable ZY1000 interface
    
      --enable-minidriver-dummy
                              Enable the dummy minidriver.
    
      --enable-ioutil         Enable ioutil functions - useful for standalone
                              OpenOCD implementations
      --enable-httpd          Enable builtin httpd server - useful for standalone
                              OpenOCD implementations
    
    Miscellaneous Configure Options
    -------------------------------
    
    The following additional options may also be useful:
    
      --disable-assert        turn off assertions
    
      --enable-verbose        Enable verbose JTAG I/O messages (for debugging).
      --enable-verbose-jtag-io
                              Enable verbose JTAG I/O messages (for debugging).
      --enable-verbose-usb-io Enable verbose USB I/O messages (for debugging)
      --enable-verbose-usb-comms
                              Enable verbose USB communication messages (for
                              debugging)
      --enable-malloc-logging Include free space in logging messages (requires
                              malloc.h).
    
      --disable-gccwarnings   Disable extra gcc warnings during build.
      --disable-wextra        Disable extra compiler warnings
      --disable-werror        Do not treat warnings as errors
    
      --enable-release        Enable building of an OpenOCD release.  This
    			  option is intended for project maintainers.
    			  It simply omits the svn version string when
    			  the openocd -v is executed (to KISS).
    
      --disable-option-checking
                              Ignore unrecognized --enable and --with options.
      --disable-dependency-tracking  speeds up one-time build
      --enable-shared[=PKGS]  build shared libraries [default=no]
      --enable-static[=PKGS]  build static libraries [default=yes]
    
    Parallel Port Dongles
    ---------------------
    
    If you want to access the parallel port using the PPDEV interface you
    have to specify both --enable-parport AND --enable-parport-ppdev, since the
    the later option is an option to the parport driver (see
    http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=3795 for more info).
    
    The same is true for the --enable-parport-giveio option, you
    have to use both the --enable-parport AND the --enable-parport-giveio
    option if you want to use giveio instead of ioperm parallel port access
    method.
    
    FT2232C Based USB Dongles 
    -------------------------
    
    There are 2 methods of using the FTD2232, either (1) using the
    FTDICHIP.COM closed source driver, or (2) the open (and free) driver
    libftdi. 
    
    Using LIBFTDI
    -------------
    
    For both Linux and Windows, both libusb and libftdi must be built and
    installed.  To use the newer FT2232H chips, supporting RTCK and USB high
    speed (480 Mbps), you need libftdi version 0.16 or newer.  Many Linux
    distributions provide suitable packages for these libraries.
    
    For Windows, libftdi is supported with versions 0.14 and later.  
    
    With these prerequisites met, configure the libftdi solution like this:
    
      ./configure --prefix=/path/for/your/install --enable-ft2232_libftdi
    
    Then type ``make'', and perhaps ``make install''.
    
    Using FTDI's FTD2XX
    -------------------
    
    Some claim the (closed) FTDICHIP.COM solution is faster, which
    is the motivation for supporting it even though its licensing restricts
    it to non-redistributable OpenOCD binaries, and it is not available for
    all operating systems used with OpenOCD.  You may, however, build such
    copies for personal use.
    
    The FTDICHIP drivers come as either a (win32) ZIP file, or a (Linux)
    TAR.GZ file. You must unpack them ``some where'' convient. As of this
    writing FTDICHIP does not supply means to install these files "in an
    appropriate place."  
    
    If your distribution does not package these, there are several
    './configure' options to solve this problem:
    
      --with-ftd2xx-win32-zipdir
                              Where (CYGWIN/MINGW) the zip file from ftdichip.com
                              was unpacked <default=search>
      --with-ftd2xx-linux-tardir
                              Where (Linux/Unix) the tar file from ftdichip.com
                              was unpacked <default=search>
      --with-ftd2xx-lib       Use static or shared ftd2xx libs on default static
    
    If you are using the FTDICHIP.COM driver, download and unpack the
    Windows or Linux FTD2xx drivers from the following location:
    
    	http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm
    
    Remember, this library is binary-only, while OpenOCD is licenced
    according to GNU GPLv2 without any exceptions.  That means that
    _distributing_ copies of OpenOCD built with the FTDI code would violate
    the OpenOCD licensing terms.  
    
    
    Cygwin/Win32 Notes
    ******************
    
    The Cygwin/Win32 ZIP file contains a directory named ftd2xx.win32.
    Assuming that you have extracted this archive in the same directory as
    the OpenOCD package, you could configure with options like the following:
    
       ./configure \
    	--enable-ft2232_ftd2xx \
    	--with-ftd2xx-win32-zipdir=../ftd2xx.win32 \
    	... other options ...
    
    Linux Notes
    ***********
    
    The Linux tar.gz archive contains a directory named libftd2xx0.4.16
    (or similar).  Assuming that you have extracted this archive in the same
    directory as the OpenOCD package, you could configure with options like
    the following:
    
       ./configure \
            --enable-ft2232_ftd2xx \
            --with-ft2xx-linux-tardir=../libftd2xx0.4.16 \
    	... other options ...
    
    =================================
    Obtaining OpenOCD From Subversion
    ---------------------------------
    
    You can download the current SVN version with an SVN client of your
    choice from the following repositories:
    
       svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk
    or
       http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/trunk
    
    Using the SVN command line client, you can use the following command to
    fetch the latest version (make sure there is no (non-svn) directory
    called "openocd" in the current directory):
    
       svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk openocd
    
    
    If you prefer GIT based tools, the git-svn package works too:
    
    
       git svn clone -s svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd
    
    Tips For Building From The Subversion Repository
    ************************************************
    
    Building OpenOCD from a repository requires a recent version of the GNU
    autotools (autoconf >= 2.59 and automake >= 1.9).  For building on
    
    Windows, you have to use Cygwin. Make sure that your PATH
    
    environment variable contains no other locations with Unix utils (like
    UnxUtils) - these can't handle the Cygwin paths, resulting in obscure
    dependency errors.  This was an observation gathered from the logs of
    one user; please correct us if this is wrong.
    
    1) Run './bootstrap' to create the 'configure' script and prepare
       the build process for your host system.
    
    2) Run './configure --enable-maintainer-mode' with other options.
    
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