Building and Flashing the Ocre Runtime
This section will guide you through the process of building the Ocre runtime from source. Whether you’re using a simulated environment for testing or deploying to physical hardware, the initial setup and build steps are identical. The paths diverge only at the final stage: simulated devices simply run the runtime directly, while physical devices require an additional flashing step to load the runtime onto the board.
To streamline your development workflow, check out our section on Setting Up Your Development Environment just before continuing. There, we walk you through using the “Ocre Workspace” file provided in our repository. This VS Code workspace file includes preconfigured west build commands for all supported boards, along with debugging utilities and other helpful settings to make building and flashing the Ocre runtime easier.
Sample App
To help you get started, we’ve included a sample application (./src/main.c) that demonstrates basic Ocre runtime usage by writing a simple hello world application to flash and directing the runtime to load and execute it.