Installing NXDRV-SPI-Driver on a Raspberry Pi

This installing guide provides the installation requirements.

Requirements

• cmake

• ccmake (optional)

Installing requirements

Install cmake

Install ccmake (optional)

Installing libcifx

Extract the sources from the zip-file.

Change to the libcifx directory.

(Optional) Create a build directory.

Configure CMake environment with ccmake (optional).

Enable SPM_PLUGIN and DISABLE_PCI.

Open

Press "c" to configure cmake and then "g" to generate make file.

Configure CMake environment without ccmake.

Build and install libcifx.

Create the necessary links and cache to the most recent shared libraries found.

Compiling the example programs

Go to the examples folder.

Create a build directory.

Configure CMake environment

Build all source modules

Issues during build process

While compiling cifxtcpserver example, this error appears.

Error: multiple definition of 'g_ptMutex'

Open

Quick solution: In TCPServer.c located under <driver_version>examples/cifXTCPServer/, line 56 replace pthread_mutex_t* g_ptMutex to e.g static pthread_mutex_t* s_ptMutex and replace g_ptMutex to s_ptMutex.

Connect a netX90 based device to the Raspberry Pi 

netSHIELD90 and Raspberry Pi pinout

Run cifxspisample. You should get a similar output

Run Python script example

If you do not want to compile the examples. You can run our python script to verify if the driver and the device work.

Download pycifx here.

Extract the sources from the zip-file and go in to pycifx folder.

run main.py and you should get a similar output