Matter supports configuring the build with GN, a fast and scalable meta-build system that generates inputs to ninja.
The build system has been tested on the following Operating Systems:
- macOS 10.15
- Debian 11 (64 bit required)
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
The Matter build system has the following features:
- Very fast and small footprint
- Cross-platform handling: Linux, Darwin, Embedded Arm, among others
- Multiple toolchains & cross toolchain dependencies
- Integrates automated testing framework:
ninja check
- Introspection:
gn desc
- Automatic formatting:
gn format
To check out the Matter repository, run the following command:
git clone --recurse-submodules [email protected]:project-chip/connectedhomeip.git
If you already have the Matter code checked out, run the following commands to update the repository and synchronize submodules:
git pull
git submodule update --init
Before building, you must install a few OS specific dependencies.
On Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, these dependencies can be satisfied with the following command:
sudo apt-get install git gcc g++ pkg-config libssl-dev libdbus-1-dev \
libglib2.0-dev libavahi-client-dev ninja-build python3-venv python3-dev \
python3-pip unzip libgirepository1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libreadline-dev
If building via build_examples.py
and -with-ui
variant, also install SDL2:
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
On macOS, install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
If building -with-ui
variant, also install SDL2:
brew install sdl2
Complete the following steps:
-
Using
rpi-imager
, install the Ubuntu 22.04 64-bit server OS for arm64 architectures on a micro SD card. -
Boot the SD card.
-
Log in with the default user account "ubuntu" and password "ubuntu"
-
Proceed with Installing prerequisites on Linux.
-
Install some Raspberry Pi specific dependencies:
sudo apt-get install pi-bluetooth avahi-utils
-
Reboot your Raspberry Pi after installing
pi-bluetooth
.
By default, wpa_supplicant is not allowed to update (overwrite) configuration. If you want the Matter application to be able to store the configuration changes permanently, you need to make the following changes:
-
Edit the
dbus-fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service
file to use configuration file instead by running the following command:sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/dbus-fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service
-
Run the following command to change the wpa_supplicant start parameters to the provided values:
ExecStart=/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
-
Add the
wpa-supplicant
configuration file by running the following command:sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
-
Add the following content to the
wpa-supplicant
file:ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant update_config=1
-
Reboot your Raspberry Pi.
bootstrap.sh
will download a compatible ZAP tool version and set it up in
$PATH
. If you want to install or use a different version of the tool, you may
download one from the ZAP project's
Releases page.
Zap does not provide binary releases for arm. Rosetta solves this for Darwin,
however for linux arm you will have to use a local ZAP, generally through
setting $ZAP_DEVELOPMENT_PATH
(see the section Which zap to use
below).
The file scripts/setup/zap.json
contains the version that CIPD would download,
so you can download a compatible version from the zap project
Releases. To checkout as source
code the corresponding tag should exist in the zap
repository tags list.
Example commands:
RUN set -x \
&& mkdir -p /opt/zap-${ZAP_VERSION} \
&& git clone https://github.com/project-chip/zap.git /opt/zap-${ZAP_VERSION} \
&& cd /opt/zap-${ZAP_VERSION} \
&& git checkout ${ZAP_VERSION} \
&& npm config set user 0 \
&& npm ci
ENV ZAP_DEVELOPMENT_PATH=/opt/zap-${ZAP_VERSION}
The ZAP tool scripting uses the following detection, in order of importance:
-
$ZAP_DEVELOPMENT_PATH
to point to a ZAP checkout.- Use this if you are developing ZAP locally and would like to run ZAP with your changes.
-
$ZAP_INSTALL_PATH
to point to wherezap-linux-x64.zip
,zap-linux-arm64.zip
orzap-mac-x64.zip
was unpacked.- This allows you to not need to place
zap
orzap-cli
(or both) in$PATH
.
- This allows you to not need to place
-
Otherwise, the scripts assume
zap-cli
orzap
is available in$PATH
.
Before running any other build command, the scripts/activate.sh
environment
setup script should be sourced at the top level. This script takes care of
downloading GN, ninja, and setting up a Python environment with libraries used
to build and test.
Run the following command:
source scripts/activate.sh
If the script says the environment is out of date, you can update it by running the following command:
source scripts/bootstrap.sh
The scripts/bootstrap.sh
script re-creates the environment from scratch, which
is expensive, so avoid running it unless the environment is out of date.
Run the following commands to build all sources, libraries, and tests for the host platform:
source scripts/activate.sh
gn gen out/host
ninja -C out/host
These commands generate a configuration suitable for debugging. To configure an
optimized build, specify is_debug=false
:
gn gen out/host --args='is_debug=false'
ninja -C out/host
Note: The directory name
out/host
can be any directory, although it's conventional to build within theout
directory. This example useshost
to emphasize building for the host system. Different build directories can be used for different configurations, or a single directory can be used and reconfigured as necessary viagn args
.
To run all tests, run the following command:
ninja -C out/host check
To run only the tests in src/inet/tests
, you can run the following command:
ninja -C out/host src/inet/tests:tests_run
Note: The build system caches passing tests, so you may see the following message:
ninja: no work to do
This means that the tests passed in a previous build.
The script ./scripts/build/build_examples.py
provides a uniform build
interface into using gn
, cmake
, ninja
and other tools as needed to compile
various platforms.
Use ./scripts/build/build_examples.py targets
to see a list of supported
targets.
Example build commands:
# Compiles and runs all tests on the host:
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target linux-x64-tests build
# Compiles fuzzing tagets using libfuzzer (fuzzing requires clang)
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target linux-x64-tests-clang-asan-libfuzzer build
# Compiles a esp32 example
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target esp32-m5stack-all-clusters build
# Compiles a nrf example
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target nrf-nrf5340dk-pump build
libfuzzer
unit tests tests are only compiled but not executed (you have to
manually execute them). For best error detection, some form of sanitizer like
asan
should be used.
To compile, use:
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target linux-x64-tests-clang-asan-libfuzzer build
After which tests should be located in
out/linux-x64-tests-clang-asan-libfuzzer/tests/
.
ossfuzz
configurations are not stand-alone fuzzing and instead serve as an
integration point with external fuzzing automated builds.
They pick up environment variables such as $CFLAGS
, $CXXFLAGS
and
$LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE
.
You likely want libfuzzer
+ asan
builds instead for local testing.
The build is configured by setting build arguments. These you can set in one of the following manners:
- Passing the
--args
option togn gen
. - Running
gn args
on the output directory. - Editing
args.gn
in the output directory.
To configure a new build or edit the arguments to existing build, run the following command:
source scripts/activate.sh
gn args out/custom
ninja -C out/custom
Two key built-in build arguments are target_os
and target_cpu
, which control
the OS and CPU of the build, respectively.
To see help for all available build arguments, run the following command:
gn gen out/custom
gn args --list out/custom
You can build examples in two ways.
To build examples as separate projects that add Matter in the
third_party directory
, run the following command with the correct path to the
example (here, chip-shell
):
cd examples/shell
gn gen out/debug
ninja -C out/debug
You can build examples at the top level of the Matter project. See the following "Unified builds" section for details.
To build a unified configuration that approximates the set of continuous builds, run the following commands:
source scripts/activate.sh
gn gen out/unified --args='is_debug=true target_os="all"'
ninja -C out/unified all
You can use this set of commands before changing a submission to configure, build, and test the GCC, Clang, MbedTLS, and examples configurations all together in one parallel build. Each configuration has a separate subdirectory in the output directory.
This unified build can be used for day-to-day development, although it's more expensive to build everything for every edit. To save time, you can name the configuration to build:
ninja -C out/unified host_gcc
ninja -C out/unified check_host_gcc
Replace host_gcc
with the name of the configuration, which is found in the
root BUILD.gn
.
You can also fine tune the configurations generated with arguments. For example:
gn gen out/unified --args='is_debug=true target_os="all" enable_host_clang_build=false'
For a full list, see the root BUILD.gn
.
In the unified build, targets have multiple instances and need to be
disambiguated by adding a (toolchain)
suffix. Use gn ls out/debug
to list
all of the target instances. For example:
gn desc out/unified '//src/controller(//build/toolchain/host:linux_x64_clang)'
Note: Some platforms that can be built as part of the unified build require downloading additional tools. To add these to the build, the location must be provided as a build argument. For example, to add the Simplelink cc13x2_26x2 examples to the unified build, install SysConfig and add the following build arguments:
gn gen out/unified --args="target_os=\"all\" enable_ti_simplelink_builds=true > ti_sysconfig_root=\"/path/to/sysconfig\""
GN has integrated help that you can access with the gn help
command.
Make sure to check the following recommended topics:
gn help execution
gn help grammar
gn help toolchain
Also see the quick start guide.
GN has various introspection tools to help you examine the build configuration.
The following examples use the out/host
output directory as example:
-
Show all of the targets in an output directory:
gn ls out/host
-
Show all of the files that will be built:
gn outputs out/host '*'
-
Show the GN representation of a configured target:
gn desc out/host //src/inet --all
-
Dump the GN representation of the entire build as JSON:
gn desc out/host/ '*' --all --format=json
-
Show the dependency tree:
gn desc out/host //:all deps --tree --all
-
Find dependency paths:
gn path out/host //src/transport/tests:tests //src/system
-
List useful information for linking against
libCHIP
:gn desc out/host //src/lib include_dirs gn desc out/host //src/lib defines gn desc out/host //src/lib outputs # everything as JSON gn desc out/host //src/lib --format=json
The code coverage script generates a report that details how much of the Matter SDK source code has been executed. It also provides information on how often the Matter SDK executes segments of the code and produces a copy of the source file, annotated with execution frequencies.
Run the following command to initiate the script:
./scripts/build_coverage.sh
By default, the code coverage script is performed at the unit testing level. Unit tests are created by developers, thus giving them the best overview of what tests to include in unit testing. You can extend the coverage test by scope and ways of execution with the following parameters:
-c, --code Specify which scope to collect coverage data.
'core': collect coverage data from core stack in Matter SDK. --default
'clusters': collect coverage data from clusters implementation in Matter SDK.
'all': collect coverage data from Matter SDK.
-t, --tests Specify which tools to run the coverage check.
'unit': Run unit test to drive the coverage check. --default
'yaml': Run yaml test to drive the coverage check.
'all': Run unit & yaml test to drive the coverage check.
Also, see the up-to-date unit testing coverage report of the Matter SDK (collected daily) at: matter coverage.
If you make any change to the GN build system, the next build will regenerate the ninja files automatically. No need to do anything.