RacerX 10/26/2016
Thomas Stoeckert 11/30/2016
Thomas Stoeckert 1/26/2018
Nanda Velugoti 8/5/2019
Windows 10 Version 1709
First, enable WSL:
- In the control panel, search for "Turn Windows features on or off"
- Check "Windows Subsystem for Linux"
- PC will restart
- Open the Microsoft Store and install a linux distro, Unbuntu is reccomended. Multiple may be installed at once.
- Once the Store downloads the distro, open it and follow setup instructions
- Get VcXsrv for windows (This is required to display emulators and configuration pages).
- By default, it will not start with windows, but you can do this by adding a shortcut to it in your startup folder
- Your startup folder is located by going to %appdata% in the windows explorer, then Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup
- Copy VcXsrv's executable from C:/Program Files/VcXsrv, and in the startup folder, right click > Paste Shortcut
Update all apps/programs that WSL shipps with
- Run bash
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
- Requirements for pebble to run
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libfdt1 libpixman-1-0 libfreetype6-dev python-pip python2.7-dev
- To display configuration pages, also takes a while, so throw away your trash from the snack
sudo apt-get install firefox
Install VirtualEnv
sudo pip install virtualenv
Install NPM
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo npm -g install npm
Install Node (For JS compiling)
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
Finally, time to install the pebble SDK
- To keep your wsl environment organized, I'd suggest creating a downloads folder.
mkdir downloads
cd downloads
- Time to download (the appropriate sdk)!
Linux 32 bit SDK
Linux 64 bit SDK
SDK Core
wget https://github.com/aveao/PebbleArchive/blob/master/SDKCores/sdk-core-4.3.tar.bz2?raw=true
- Unzip into a folder for pebble tools
cd ../
mkdir pebble-dev
cd pebble-dev
sudo tar -jxf ~/downloads/pebble-sdk-4.5-linux64.tar.bz2
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You now have a folder inside of "pebble-dev" with the name "pebble-sdk-4.5-linux64"
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Now we need to setup all the requirements with virtaulenv
cd ~/pebble-dev/pebble-sdk-4.5-linux64/
virtualenv --no-site-packages .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt (It'll freeze at one point, but eventually it'll work itself out)
deactivate
- Almost done here! Now we need to make sure
pebblecommands work. We can do this by changing the path that bash uses to find executables. To keep us from having to do this every time bash launches, we can edit a file called.bashrc, which is located in the home directory associated with your account.
cd ~/
vim .bashrc (Press 'i' to edit an open file in vim)
- Now you're able to type freely. Add the following lines to the bottom.
export DISPLAY=:0
export PATH=~/pebble-dev/pebble-sdk-4.5-linux64/bin:$PATH
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Press ESC to exit editing mode and type ":wq" to write the file and quit.
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Go ahead and close bash and open it back up again. You can make sure everything is OK and working by typing "pebble"
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For our final step, we need to install the latest version of the Pebble SDK.
pebble sdk install latest
- As part of the setup, it's going to ask you if you want to send tracking information to pebble. Pebble is not a thing anymore, so decline.
And you're done! At this point you can follow any pebble guide, using the Pebble SDK option instead of Cloudpebble.
However, there's one issue. If you're making pebble projects in your Linux folders, you cannot edit them except using a text editor that's already in the linux subsystem, i.e. vim or nano. Instead, if you put them in a windows folder, such as in your documents folder, you can use VSCode or Notepad++ or any windows program to edit the files. To access a letter drive, such as the C drive, you must type
cd /mnt/[drive letter]
From there, you can access the entire windows filesystem, and do whatever you like wherever.