D1 SDK Howto

This page walks you through building Allwinners own SDK for the D1 SoC, using the mirror we have on our server, and an adjusted git-repo manifest.

The original SDK as created by Allwinner was behind a registration wall, which includes a click-through disclaimer that is at odds with the GPL. Since we have our own mirror, this is actually open, and this howto describes how to use it.

= Get git-repo =

Arch Linux based distributions
pacman -S repo

Debian based distributions
apt-get install repo

Caveat: python-3
Repo downloads a copy of itself to .repo, and that version will trip over on itself if it gets started with python-2 (which is the default still on debian stable/buster).

When you run repo in the next section, and you get: File "/home/user/dir/.repo/repo/main.py", line 79 file=sys.stderr)       ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Then you might need to switch to python-3. Here it cryptically tripped over the print command which does not exist in python-2.

To get around this, check what python versions are available: /usr/bin/python  /usr/bin/python2.7  /usr/bin/python3.7   /usr/bin/python3m /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python3    /usr/bin/python3.7m
 * 1) ls /usr/bin/python*

And then point alternatives to the python-3 bin: update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.7 1

Verify: Python 3.7.3
 * 1) python --version

You will need to restore python-2, if you want to run the repo utility that your debian system knows, as that hard depends on python 2.

update-alternatives --remove python /usr/bin/python3.7 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.7 1

When you then run sync again, you will have to dance the same dance all over again. WTF? Git-repo developers, WTF?

= Point repo at the manifest =

repo init -u https://github.com/linux-sunxi/d1-sdk-manifest.git -b master -m tina-d1-open.xml

If all goes well, it will state: repo has been initialized in /home/user/dir

= Let repo get all the repositories =

repo sync

= See also =