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Boost Hello, World on a ZCU102

  • Writer: Zach Pfeffer
    Zach Pfeffer
  • Nov 5, 2021
  • 2 min read

Updated: May 14, 2023



This post shows how to compile and install Boost, compile the Boost "Hello, World!" project using the Xilinx SDK aarch64 toolchain, and run it on a ZCU102.


# Prerequisites

  • Xilinx 2019.1 SDK installed in /home/demo/xsdk/

  • A ZCU102 + Cables

  • Running Ubuntu 16.04.5

  • A Xilinx account to get PetaLinux 2019.1 and the PetaLinux 2019.1 ZCU102 BSP


# Get Boost

# Save boost_1_77_0.tar.bz2 to ~/Downloads

# Save boost_1_77_0.tar.bz2.json to ~/Downloads

# Check it

cat ~/Downloads/boost_1_77_0.tar.bz2.json

{

"commit": "9d3f9bcd7d416880d4631d7d39cceeb4e8f25da0",

"file": "boost_1_77_0.tar.bz2",

"sha256": "fc9f85fc030e233142908241af7a846e60630aa7388de9a5fafb1f3a26840854"

}


sha256sum ~/Downloads/boost_1_77_0.tar.bz2

fc9f85fc030e233142908241af7a846e60630aa7388de9a5fafb1f3a26840854 /home/demo/Downloads/boost_1_77_0.tar.bz2



# Extract Boost

mkdir -p ~/boost_1_77_0 tar -x -C ~/boost_1_77_0 --strip-components=1 -f ~/Downloads/boost_1_77_0.tar.bz2

# Check

ls ~/boost_1_77_0/



# Bootstrap Boost

cd ~/boost_1_77_0

./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=program_options,filesystem,thread,coroutine,date_time,context,timer,system,regex,chrono,test,log,atomic,random,graph,serialization,stacktrace,iostreams

# You should see amongst the output: # Bootstrapping is done. To build, run:


echo 'using gcc : aarch64 : aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ ;' > ~/user-config.jam

export PATH=/home/demo/xsdk/SDK/2019.1/gnu/aarch64/lin/aarch64-linux/bin/:$PATH

./b2 -j8 toolset=gcc-aarch64 architecture=arm address-model=64 target-os=linux

# This ^^^ can take some time

# Note the output:

# The Boost C++ Libraries were successfully built!

# The following directory should be added to compiler include paths:

# /home/demo/boost_1_77_0

# The following directory should be added to linker library paths:

# /home/demo/boost_1_77_0/stage/lib


mkdir ~/boost_1_77_0_install

# Install to a different directory

./b2 -j32 install toolset=gcc-aarch64 --prefix=/home/demo/boost_1_77_0_install link=shared threading=multi runtime-link=shared architecture=arm address-model=64 target-os=linux



# Compile Hello, World

cd ~/boost_1_77_0/tools/build/example/hello/ cd .. cd hello_arm64/ ~/boost_1_77_0/b2 toolset=gcc-aarch64 target-os=linux

# You should see: # ...found 8 targets... #...updating 5 targets... # gcc.compile.c++ bin/gcc-aarch64/debug/hello.o # gcc.link bin/gcc-aarch64/debug/hello #...updated 5 targets...

readlink -f bin/gcc-aarch64/debug/hello # /home/demo/boost_1_77_0/tools/build/example/hello_arm64/bin/gcc-aarch64/debug/hello



# Install PetaLinux Locally and Do a Build

# Download and copy petalinux-v2019.1-final-installer.run to ~/Downloads

# Download and copy xilinx-zcu102-v2019.1-final.bsp to ~/Downoads

mkdir -p $HOME/petalinux

cd ~/Downloads

./petalinux-v2019.1-final-installer.run $HOME/petalinux/2019.1

mkdir -p ~/plxprjs

cd ~/plxprjs

source ~/petalinux/2019.1/settings.sh

petalinux-create -t project -s ~/Downloads/xilinx-zcu102-v2019.1-final.bsp

cd xilinx-zcu102-2019.1

petalinux-build

petalinux-boot --qemu --kernel

#Type Ctrl-a x to exit QEMU



# Test Boost Hello, World on a ZCU102

# Insert an SD Card (there are better ways to do this, but this method works without minimal set up)

cp ~/boost_1_77_0/tools/build/example/hello_arm64/bin/gcc-aarch64/debug/hello /media/demo/BDFD-EDD6/

cp ~/xsdk/SDK/2019.1/gnu/aarch64/lin/aarch64-linux/aarch64-linux-gnu/lib64/* /media/demo/BDFD-EDD6/

# Plug the SD Card into a ZCU102

# Connect a cable from the ZCU102's USB JTAG and a cable from ZCU102's USB UART

# Set the ZCU102 to JTAG mode (Set all the switches on SW6 towards "ON C&K SDA04"

# Turn on the ZCU102

# Open another terminal and run

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

# In the original terminal

cd ~/plxprjs/xilinx-zcu102-2019.1 source ~/petalinux/2020.1/settings.sh petalinux-boot --jtag --kernel -v

# Or if you have a SmartLynq, you can download more quickly:

petalinux-boot --jtag --kernel -v --hw_server-url 10.0.0.2:3121

At the prompt (user: root, password: root):

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/run/media/mmcblk0p1/ /run/media/mmcblk0p1/hello

# You'll see: # Hello!



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