How to install OsmocomBB

How to install OsmocomBB

Atract :

OsmocomBB is an Free Software / Open Source GSM Baseband software implementation.

By using OsmocomBB on a compatible phone, you are able to make and receive phone calls, send and receive SMS, etc. based on Free Software only.

 

Introduce : 

This is the project page about their experiments (so far) only with phones based on the Ti Calypso/Iota/Rita GSM baseband chipset. The main target is the MotorolaC123. For more supported phones, check below.They originally intended to build an inexpensive GSM experimentation board built with/around that chipset, but right now are pursuing a slightly alternative course by using cheap off-the-shelf feature phones and write custom software for it.

 

OsmocomBB Getting Started :

1. Dependencies for the host

osmocomBB requires GNU autoconf, automake, libtool, pkg-config, make and GCC to compile. You will also need to use git to access and update the sources. There should be no other depedencies. The name of these packages depend on the distribution used. To

 

For Debian the package names are:

 

sudo aptitude install libtool shtool autoconf git-core pkg-config make gcc

 

2. Getting and updating the source :

 

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/osmocom-bb.git

 

3. Dependencies for the target

 

To compile osmocomBB or SIMtrace for the target we need a GNU toolchain for ARM.

GNUArm

The toolchains that are known working are the  GNUArm.com ones. They provide a ARM GCC 3.4.3 for x86  here and a ARM GCC 4.0.2 for x86_64  here. The toolchain is relocatable and can be extracted in your home directory.

 

For x86

 

wget http://gnuarm.com/bu-2.15_gcc-3.4.3-c-c++-java_nl-1.12.0_gi-6.1.tar.bz2

tar xf bu-2.15_gcc-3.4.3-c-c++-java_nl-1.12.0_gi-6.1.tar.bz2

mv gnuarm-* ~/gnuarm

For amd64

 

wget http://www.gnuarm.com/bu-2.16.1_gcc-4.0.2-c-c++_nl-1.14.0_gi-6.4_x86-64.tar.bz2

tar xf bu-*_gcc-*-c-c++_nl-*_gi-*_x86-64.tar.bz2

mv gnuarm-* ~/gnuarm

To be able to use the toolchain, add the crosscompilers to your PATH

 

export PATH=~/gnuarm/bin:$PATH

 

 

My PC is X86_64 and I choose arm-gcc4.0.2. If you do not install wget, you should install it using apt-get:

 

sudo apt-get install wget

 

4. Building the source

 

Compiling both the target and the host code will happen with the following command. It assumes that the arm-elf-gcc is inside the current path.

 

$ cd src

$ make

 

Now, I install it successfully.

 

 

References:

http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki

http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/GettingStarted

http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/toolchain

 

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