This guide covers setting up a development environment on your computer to be able to create and modify embedded C/C++ firmware applications for your Dev Board. Depending on your comfort and experience with C programming it may take some time to get everything installed and configured correctly.
<aside> 📖 If you’re already pretty familiar with development you might want to take a peek and bookmark the Bristlemouth Technical Documentation.
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<aside> ⏳ Expect to take about 60 minutes, but it could be longer.
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Currently, Bristlemouth application development in C/C++ on **FreeRTOS** is supported. Documentation is geared toward developing on macOS systems. The general process and tools for developing a Mote application are:
<aside> ⚠️ You may need Xcode command line tools if you don’t have them already. Open a new macOS Terminal window. Enter the command:
**$ xcode-select --install**
If there is anything new to install, the process could take a few minutes. It may ask you to accept the license terms.
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Reference applications, libraries, and tools for the Development Kit are provided in the open source bm_protocol repository in the Bristlemouth GitHub organization (alongside the full open source implementation of the Bristlemouth protocol itself).
Reference applications for the Dev Kit are in the src/apps/bm_devkit directory.
We recommend using the command-line interface (CLI) to maintain source control and keep track of your own repos.