yazici / mister

Main_MiSTer rework on C++. Re-architecture and preparing for future expansion

MiSTer

Main_MiSTer rework on C++. Re-architecture and preparing for future expansion

Done:

• Establish modular structure
• Rework input devices management / event handling
• Asynchronous messages throughout the application (like MessageCenter in iOS and macOS)
• Input device management (with device insert/remove detection)
• Transfer startup/FPGA bitstream load functionality

ToDo:

• Prepare common functionality/logic for: files, logging, disk images
• Transfer OSD menu parts [In progress]
• Transfer I/O and FPGA interconnects [Almost finished]
• Modernize all file/disk image operations using unified logic
• Transfer each core related functionality into separate modules (potentially can lead to plugin-based project structure)

Technology stack:

• C++ 0x11 dialect, object oriented modular structure, STL
• Target system: Yocto Linux 32-bit (Altera maintained SocFPGA repository)
• Cross-compilation toolchain: Linaro 6.3.x based (official Linaro for Windows x64 and Linux, self-assembled for Mac OS X)
• Toolchain prefix: arm-linux-gnueabihf (hard-float, neon-fp16)
• LFS (Large Support) turned on

Development tools:

• Eclipse C++ package for Mac
• Remote gdbserver debugging (on DE10-nano board)

Note: Doesn't really matter what host OS or IDE to use. Once you have cross-platform toolchain - everything can work. Tried:

• JetBrains CLion - CMake based and very immature as C/C++ IDE. But best syntax analyzer and refactoring (as every IDE from JetBrains)
• Microsoft VS Code - Sublime Text on steroids. Good for text editing, bunch of messy plugins for everything else.
• Visual Studio 2017 - it's from other world, probably can work with plugins like VisualGDB, but out of the box not intended for Linux cross-platform development.